Senior Business Development Manager

About The Role

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Development Manager to join the Health in Justice service at Practice Plus Group.

You will be a key leader in Business Development for Health in Justice. The main responsibility will be to make a significant contribution to achieving targets for new business growth and retention/renewal of existing service contracts through leading responses to opportunities, both as part, and outside of, formal procurement.

Hours:

This is a full time role working 37.5 hours per week

Monday - Friday: between 8am and 5pm.

Salary:

You will receive an annual salary of £50,000 to £55,000 per annum.

Location:

This role is home based, with travel to sites as required.

How will we support you?

• Robust Induction
• Everybody has career coaching conversations to support personal and professional growth with access to higher learning and training opportunities
• Our bespoke Learning Management System to address your learning needs

Candidates are required to have a Legal right to work in the UK and due to the nature of the role, offers of employment will be subject to additional vetting and security checks

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What you'll be doing

As our new Senior Business Development Manager, some of your duties will include:

• To contribute to the creation, and annual refresh, of a Business Development strategy for Health in Justice that covers retaining existing contracts and opportunities for growth.
• The strategy will encompass opportunities drawn from formal procurement and other channels, including customer relationship management, service development and diversification.
• To meet the new business target specific to their area of focus and other objectives agreed at annual review.
• To be an active member of the leadership team in Business Development, working alongside senior manager colleagues in delivering the business development strategy.
• For the preparation and submission of proposals for new and retention contracts the post holder will be responsible for the quality of the proposal submission, bid writing, developing the business case, and project managing the proposal process, working with the business development team, subject matter experts and colleagues in operations, clinical governance, HR, IM&T, finance, Commercial and Estates.

What we'll look for in you

As our new Senior Business Development Manager**, you will:**

• Have a demonstrable track record of recent experience, notably within the last two years, of leading, managing and submitting bids
• Commercial experience, including a basic understanding of procurement for health care services
• Facilitation skills, in particular the ability to work closely with people from a variety of backgrounds/professions
• Experience of staff management
• Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines and within a complex environment
• Problem solving and conflict resolution
• Project management experience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, able to ‘brief accurately and convincingly to a range of audiences.
• Excellent writing ability to be applied to preparing tender responses
• A strong commitment to working in partnership and a desire to drive through change
• High levels of computer literacy including Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, with the ability to create, understand and manipulate spreadsheets
• A good understanding of the principles of risk identification and management and controls assurance
• Financial awareness