Bid Development Lead

Join us in playing a key role in managing responses to new business, and renewal opportunities across the care and support contracts in Home Group! As our Bid Development Lead, you'll oversee the entire bid and tender submission process, ensuring full compliance with commissioner requirements and leading a team of talented bid writers. Our success relies on securing new business and renewing contracts that align with the needs of our customers and commissioners, and along with our Business Development team, you'll be a key player.,

• You'll manage and lead the bid and tender submission process, ensuring all submissions meet commissioner requirements and reflect our competitive strengths, working with Strategic Partnership Leads to secure new business across our product portfolio.


• You'll support horizon scanning relating to new business opportunities, using tendering portals, reviewing, recommending and maximising growth opportunities.


• Using our gateway approval processes you'll ensure governance standards are met.


• Using your brilliant collaboration and communication skills you'll work with internal and external stakeholders including finance, legal and HRD to ensure the success of governance process in bid submission.


• You'll lead and coach our team of bid writers to be experts in their field and Home Group's products.


• Through your strategic thinking and driving continuous improvement, your success contributes to our annual growth targets!


Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You'll do that here, working for the 4th best Great Place to Work in the UK Employer!,
• Flexible working hours (or we're open to agreeing a work pattern with you)


• You'll manage your own diary, so if you need to take delivery of your new fridge or take a longer lunch for a haircut, you can use your flexi time to manage that!


• Our team is spread nationally - so we take it in turns where we host our monthly face to face team meeting! Our offices are in Leeds, London, Birmingham and Newcastle, so every now and then you'll be going further afield.


• We also regularly visit services we're supporting with tenders, so you'll need to be okay with travelling (we cover train or milage expenses of course!)
  
  You'll have strong experience in bid and tender management, even better if it's within the care and supported housing sector!


• Your excellent leadership, team management and coaching skills.


• Excellent written and presentation skills and ability to negotiate and persuade.


• Ability to coach others in delivering technical expertise in written responses.


• Experience using a CRM system, knowledge management and continuous improvement practices.


Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review, Disability Confident
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You'll join Darren and our Business Development team, we're super passionate about what we do! Darren will be your line manager and he has a wealth of experience and has been with us at Home Group for several years now. We're a supportive bunch and you'll also join Sarah and our experienced team, as well as some other new colleagues we're recruiting so you can learn together!, Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

Permanent full time (37.5 hpw), flexible

Salary circa £48,000 negotiable based on skills and experience plus brilliant benefits including health cash plan!,
• 34 days leave (this includes bank hols and a "me day" to use whenever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!


• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We'll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.


• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.


• Colleagues really matters to us, that's why we're the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.


• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!


• Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary. See our full range of benefits on our website.