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. TPBN1_UKTJ
Bid Development Lead in Sunderland employer: Home Group Limited
Home Group is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee wellbeing and professional growth, offering a supportive legal team environment in the vibrant Newcastle city centre. With a commitment to inclusion and flexibility, employees enjoy generous benefits such as 34 days of leave, a matching pension contribution, and family-friendly policies, making it a truly rewarding place to build a meaningful career in housing management law.
