Business Development Manager

Job Description

About usReed in Partnership is a public service provider specialising in employment, skills, youth, education, training, business support, e-assessment and wellbeing services, that improve the lives of tens of thousands of people each year. We are on a mission to bethe partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed in Partnership is a privately owned company with over 1200 staff in the UK.The roleWorking in the Reed in Partnership Business Development Team the Business Development Manager will be responsible for managing new business development opportunities to support our continuing growth and expansion. This role will focus primarily on deliveringthe strategy for growth and expansion of our business in our core markets, as well as into new markets and sectors. Reed In Partnership has an ambitious plan for growth and ongoing diversification, as well as retaining and strengthening business within ourcore markets. This will include all aspect of bid writing and bid management for tendered for business (with support from the team), as well as partnership development to secure new contracts.Key accountabilitiesThe Business Development Manager will be required to:Provide leadership to bid development projects.Engage effectively with commissioners to promote Reed In Partnership and ensure our tender proposals effectively respond to their needs.Take a rolein working with internal stakeholders and external partners to identify, develop and pursue tender/sales opportunities.Foster productive relationships with competitors/partners whilst retaining commercial sensitivities for both parties.Undertake researchto contribute to briefings and assessment of potential markets and provide research summaries to inform entry to new markets identified as a priority.Use analytical, communication and influencing skills to make recommendations to pursue/not pursue new businessopportunities.Develop high quality, logical, tender responses and proposals to time and to meet sufficient quality, which respond effectively to the requirements of tender specifications.Consult and evaluate supply chain relationships at all levels andto make recommendations to support proposals, bearing in mind current operational relationships across current contracts.Lead, coach and develop team members on specific projects to assist with delivery of the above responsibilities, clearly delegatingwork within tight timelines.Effectively handover winning tenders to the implementation and operations teams charged with their delivery.Skills & experienceEssential Attainments:Successful Bid Writer/Business Development Manager with significant experience of bid writing and managing bid processes. An understanding of business development in a public sector context would be advantageous.Experience of coachingand supporting small teams of more junior reports and working with them to achieve specific projects to demanding and tight timescales maintaining a short term focus on quality of outputs while also building the capacity for quality to improve.A minimumof 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma.GCSE English Language at a minimum of a Grade B (or equivalent Level 2 qualification). OR achievement of a Level 2 in Literacy Assessment at interview stage. Essential Criteria:A very high degree of commercialawareness focusing on the cost and bottom line impacts of process and organisational design.Highly developed research and analytical skills.Excellent written and oral communication skills with an ability to explain complex business concepts, deliverymodels/solutions.Other