Senior Business Development Partner (Maternity Cover)

Community Integrated Care; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity in health and social care is seeking a Senior Business Development Partner to join their team for a 12-month maternity cover. This role provides a flexible working arrangement over 37.5 hours per week and offers a competitive salary of £50,000 - £60,000 plus a £5,000 car allowance. The ideal candidate will have experience in business development within social care, managing various stakeholder relationships, and making impactful contributions to the commissioning landscape. Based in the Midlands, this role involves varied responsibilities including partnership initiatives and proposal development.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Competitive salary

Pension scheme

Retail and holiday discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in business development specifically in social care.
• Ability to lead and inspire teams, even without direct management.
• Good understanding of commissioning in health and social care.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional development initiatives and partnership activities.
• Develop proposals and tenders with business development director.
• Manage relationships with key stakeholders in social care.

Skills

Business development experience in social care

Relationship management

Competitive tendering

Budget management

Knowledge of care industry regulations

Job description

What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work:

Do you have a background in business development and health and social care? Are you commercially minded and able to build excellent relationships? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of people with a learning disability or mental health condition? If so this could be the job for you!

Community Integrated Care is recruiting for a Senior Business Development Partner to join our team on a 12 month maternity cover contract covering our Midlands and Central business regions!

What is "The Deal" for you?

• Flexibility! You can work your 37.5 hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or split the hours over 5 days to accommodate your other commitments. You can work from home, or from a regional office, or a flex between the two. There will be a requirement to travel to other locations throughout the midlands and support other regions when necessary.
• Competitive Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 (+£5K Car Allowance)
• Pension: contributory pension scheme
• Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle to work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
• Best Lives Better: You’ll be working for an award winning charity who is passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives better
• Development: We’ll work with you to develop your career or to learn and experience new things. We’re passionate about developing our people!
• Support: From our Employee Assistance Programme (available 24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you’ll have the support available to lead an easier (financial) life

Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role:

Our business development team are looking for a positive, energetic and creative individual to take on the role of Senior Business Development Partner in our Midlands / Central region. We are a welcoming and supporting team who value fun, commitment and teamwork. The role is varied and challenging with the opportunity for flexible working (37.5 hours over 4 days).

Travel will be a requirement with this role as and such you must be able to travel to services throughout East and West Midlands so the ideal candidate must live in the Midlands area and have a good working knowledge of the commissioning landscape in health and social care in the region.

In this role you will lead on regional development initiatives, partnership activities and innovation in a mission to deliver excellent, customer focused and cost-effective solutions and viable growth options across the Midlands region.

Day to Day:

There is no typical day as a Senior Business Development Partner! You will engage with a variety of stakeholders and partners to drive new social care developments delivering on the growth agenda for your region. You will be required to:

• Develop and present partnership proposals, working alongside the Director for Business Development to deliver bespoke bids, formal tenders and joint ventures where needed
• Manage a portfolio of relationships, which will include but not be limited to commissioners, housing associations, public sector and corporate organisations, private funders and investors
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the sector, local markets, government initiatives and competitors
• Progress diversification strategies and service redesign to meet the changing needs of the social care landscape and to help deliver best lives better for the people we support
• Engage with our funders to ensure that our services are sustainable and have opportunity for collaborative redesign; always striving to improve and create efficiencies
• Be a brand ambassador!

Your values:

Our Ideal Candidate

• You are self‑motivated, not shy to seek out opportunity and partnerships
• You have vision and can deliver on strategy
• You've got a great eye for detail and accuracy
• You don't mind being thrown the odd curve ball – you love a challenge!
• You enjoy variety in your role
• You are brilliant at communicating and have existing relationships across the sector

Skills and Experience

• Have experience of business development in a social care organisation, ideally learning disabilities or mental health – this is essential
• You will have experience of securing new business through competitive tendering
• You’ll need to be good with people, with the natural ability to lead, inspire, motivate and develop teams that you may not directly line‑manage
• You are able to plan and organise a complex workload with shifting deadlines in order to meet specific targets
• You’re experienced in managing budgets, financial planning and risk management
• You have excellent knowledge of the care industry including regulatory and contractual frameworks, government legislation

Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may be closed before the expected advertising end date.

Interested and want to know a bit more?

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The Employee Net Promoter Score is a measure of how willing our colleagues are to recommend us as a good place to work to their loved ones – and a score of +34 is considered a Very Good score when compared to global benchmarks set by hundreds of other organisations.