Head of Business Development (England)

Head of Business Development (England).

Salary: c£70,000 per annum.

Location: Remote; with travel across the UK.

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

Reporting to the UK Director of Business Development, you will be strategically responsible for winning new business and retaining existing services through engaging in business development activities, involving, and engaging key stakeholders at Government and local strategic levels to develop high value business opportunities. You will also lead and manage a professional business development team to win and retain business. This is an England wide role.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Continued development and understanding of Action for Children services and external environment (including commissioner requirements).
• Lead a team of Business Development professionals to achieve challenging targets that involve winning and retaining business through business development activities including tendering, bidding, and account management.
• Win and retain existing business and improving win rate in tendering activity of the organisation across England.
• Advise the Director of Business Development on the risks associated with bids and for the risk assessment bidding processes.
• Manage key accounts or business specific leads, and to lead on country wide business development.
• Achieve the agreed financial target for existing (retention)and new business and responsible for achieving a specified success for tenders/bids as agreed.
• Managing the business development budget, including forecasting and the management of the staffing resource.

Let's talk about you

• Experience of bid management, strategic Business Development work and demonstrable track record of winning bids.
• Providing managerial and professional direction to develop bids to win new business.
• Experience of managing complex data and intelligence to identify priorities, create a compelling narrative.
• Experience of managing, leading and motivating a professional team to deliver on challenging targets.
• Lead and manage business cases to enable the development of products and services.
• Managing and developing a pipeline of opportunities.
• Effective communication skills, to produce reports, internal and external comms and team management.
• Detailed and practical knowledge of principles of commissioning, tendering and how to support this. Experience of Children’s Services, delivery, commissioning and service design.
• Develop innovatively written bids in line with funders / commissioners published guidelines.

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.

Good to know

Please note we do not offer sponsorship for this role

Application Process

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Talent Pool

We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

Want to know more about Action for Children?

Find us on X, Linkedin, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

Closing Date: Friday 18th October 2024.

Interviews will be scheduled for Monday 4th, Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th November 2024, by MS Teams, 2nd stage interview dates TBC.