Full-Time

Manager of Business Development & Sales

Healthcare Technology, Provider Solutions

Axle

Axle

201-500 employees

Translational research informatics and data science

Compensation Overview

$85k - $130k/yr

Cincinnati, OH, USA

In Person

Resident of Cincinnati metropolitan area; requires in-office work.

Bachelor's, Master's, MBA, PhD

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Sales

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Requirements
  • 5–8+ years of experience in healthcare technology sales or business development
  • Demonstrated success selling to provider organizations (health systems, hospitals, or physician practices)
  • Proven ability to build and convert pipeline quickly, closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals in regulated enterprise environments.
  • Understanding of provider workflows, clinical operations, and healthcare IT buying processes
  • Experience managing multi-stakeholder sales cycles
  • Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills
Responsibilities
  • Drive new business development with provider organizations, including hospitals, health systems, and ambulatory groups
  • Leverage an existing book of business and industry relationships to accelerate pipeline creation and early deal conversion
  • Manage a pipeline of mid-to-large provider opportunities from initial outreach through contract execution
  • Support complex sales cycles involving clinical, IT, finance, and executive stakeholders
  • Develop tailored value propositions that address provider pain points such as efficiency, quality, compliance, and financial performance
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with provider decision-makers and influencers
  • Support onboarding and early expansion of new customers in collaboration with implementation and customer success teams
  • Identify upsell and cross-sell opportunities within existing provider accounts
  • Contribute to provider-focused go-to-market strategies, messaging, and sales enablement materials
  • Collaborate with marketing, product, and clinical teams to align offerings with provider needs
  • Assist in responding to RFPs, RFIs, and procurement processes common to provider organizations
  • Stay current on provider industry trends, including care delivery models, reimbursement pressures, and regulatory requirements
  • Track competitive offerings and provide market feedback to inform product positioning and roadmap decisions
  • Represent the organization at provider-focused conferences, events, and customer meetings
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with SaaS, digital health, data analytics, interoperability, or EHR-integrated solutions
  • Familiarity with provider procurement, contracting, and RFP processes
  • Prior experience mentoring junior sales or BD team members
  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree a plus
  • Consultative selling and solution positioning
  • Healthcare domain knowledge (provider side required, other domains preferred)
  • Pipeline management and forecasting
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced environment

Axle Informatics provides specialized informatics solutions for translational research, health informatics, and data science to biomedical research centers and healthcare organizations. Its offerings are customized software and data management platforms that help researchers collect, integrate, analyze, and visualize large research datasets, with end-to-end tools that automate data aggregation and deliver analytics, dashboards, and decision-support features. The company differentiates itself with an integrated, scientifically informed approach that bridges data science with application development, specifically focused on translational research and clinical data work rather than generic software. Axle’s goal is to advance public health by moving biomedical discoveries from the lab to bedside, improving healthcare outcomes.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Rockville, Maryland

Founded

2002

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What believers are saying

  • NIH awarded Axle the $11.2 million N3C Dynamic Workspaces task order on September 30, 2025.
  • NCATS extended Axle through June 27, 2026, signaling trust during transition risk.
  • SK pharmteco partnered with Axle and NIH on rare-disease gene therapy programs on May 7, 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Axle depends heavily on NIH funding; one recompete failure hits revenues by 2027.
  • NCATS limited-source notices in 2025-2026 show mission-critical work gets rebid fast.
  • A larger integrator like Dovel or Leidos can underprice Axle and compress margins.

What makes Axle unique

  • Axle embeds inside NIH, winning NCATS and NIAID support work in 2025-2026.
  • Its translational-research niche blends biomedical science, software engineering, and federal program management.
  • Repeated sole-source extensions show NIH treats Axle as operational infrastructure, not a commodity vendor.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid Vacation

Paid Holidays

401(k) Company Match

Educational Benefits for Career Growth

Employee Referral Bonus

Flexible Spending Accounts

Company News

TheGWW.com
Jul 25th, 2023
“Octo awarded $64.7M IT Infrastructure Call Order to support NCI’s Cancer research”

Octo, in partnership with Unissant, Axle Informatics, and TRex, has been awarded an IT Infrastructure and Operations Call Order to support the NCI’s OCIO.

GlobeNewswire
Jan 12th, 2023
Digital Pathology Market Worth $1.86 Billion by 2030 -

For instance, in May 2020, Indica Labs (U.S.), a provider of digital pathology solutions, collaborated with information technology consulting companies, Octo (U.S.) and Axle Informatics (U.S.) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (U.S.), to develop an online collection of high-resolution histopathology images of tissues from COVID-19 patients using Indica’s HALO Link platform.