About the role
Salary circa £48,000 per annum negotiable based on skills and experience plus brilliant benefits including Health Cash Plan!
Home, a place where you belong
Join us in playing a key role in securing new business and renewal opportunities across Home Groups support contracts. As our Bid Development Lead, youll lead the end-to-end bid and tender process, ensuring submissions are high quality, commercially robust, fully compliant and clearly demonstrate the value of our services.
Youll bring commercial insight to bid decisions, helping assess opportunities, risks, pricing assumptions and strategic fit before we commit resource.
What youll do
Youll lead the end-to-end bid and tender process, ensuring submissions are high quality, commercially robust, compliant and clearly reflect Home Groups strengths.
Youll support horizon scanning for new business opportunities, using tendering portals to review, recommend and maximise growth opportunities across our product portfolio.
Youll apply our gateway approval processes and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including finance, legal and HRD to support robust governance and successful submissions.
Youll lead quality assurance and continuous improvement across the bid process, using feedback, outcomes, data and best practice to strengthen our bid library and future responses.
Youll lead, coach and support our team of bid writers, setting clear expectations and helping them deliver high-quality work under pressure.
Why join us
Youll join our Business Development team who are super passionate about what we do! Come and be part of one of the UKs Great Places to Work! We cant offer a CoS for this role
You have
Strong experience in bid and tender management, ideally within the supported housing sector.
Excellent leadership, team management and coaching skills, with the confidence to set direction, support performance and hold others to account.
Strong written, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to produce and improve high-quality bid responses.
Experience of quality assuring submissions and applying continuous improvement practices, using feedback, outcomes and lessons learned to strengthen future bids.
Confidence working at pace, managing competing deadlines, prioritising effectively and keeping others focused, calm and clear on what matters most.
Stronger together
We do our best work when were ourselves. Thats why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!
The practical bits
Flexible working hours (or were open to agreeing a work pattern with you)
Youll 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 youll be going further afield.
We also regularly visit services were supporting with tenders, so youll need to be okay with travelling (we cover train or milage expenses of course!)
Whats in it for you?
34 days leave, rising to 39 (this includes bank holidays and a me day). The option to buy 5 more each year
Matching pension contribution (up to 7% and life insurance of 3x basic salary)
800+ discounts on shops, holidays, days out, tech and more
Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal, fertility and menopause support
Career path with development and excellent training package.
Finally
For reasonable adjustments email . Roles can close early, so dont delay applying. If you cant see the Job Description at the top of this page, click APPLY to view it on our pages and find out more about us.
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