Senior Bid Writer And Business Development Lead

HCRG Care Group are looking for an experienced Senior BidWriter and Business Development Lead who will drive forward our Business Development and growth!

Generating new business is critical to the success of HCRG Care Group and our Business Development Team performs a key role in achieving organisational growth. As Senior BidWriter and Business Development Lead you will proactively lead the Business Development Team to write and produce high quality and persuasive content for tenders, business proposals and other work-winning submissions.  You will drive our business growth strategies and play a pivotal role in showcasing HCRG Care Group as the provider of choice to commissioning organisations including, local authorities, NHS ICBs, NHS England, NHS provider trusts, and others.

You will lead on multiple and concurrent bid responses ensuring timely responses and submissions showcase HCRG Care Group’s innovative ways of working and USPs, running as golden threads throughout our content. 

We are looking for someone who is a dynamic leader, highly conscientious and ideally has experience in using AI to help revolutionise our process of building and maintaining AI libraries for bid generations.

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours a week, though flexibility is required to accommodate competing pressures when meeting deadlines and submissions.

The role remote but requires some travel for work when required.
Package DescriptionYou'll be warmly welcomed as a Senior BidWriter and Business Development Lead at HCRG Care Group, where you'll receive access to an array of exclusive rewards and benefits including:

£61,000 - £72,000 (depending on experience) per annum salary and access to our group pension
Private medical insurance from Bupa, with fast access to the most used specialists without a referral from your GP – including for musculoskeletal problems and for mental health support – at locations across the country. 
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £25,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.  
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main ResponsibilitiesAs a Senior BidWriter and Business Development Lead you will:

Lead the existing bid team, to produce high-quality, compelling, and persuasive written content for bids, business proposals, and other work-winning submissions.
Deliver business propositions that adhere fully to service specifications, HCRG best practice models and policies, and maximise scoring against set criteria.
Ensure the various stages of the bidding and tender process are completed in line with HCRG Care Group’s Growth Governance Framework and within designated time scales.
Lead the development and submission of ​multiple and concurrent market engagement questionnaires, bid responses and work-winning business cases.
Attend and present proposals and solutions at dialogue and presentation meetings with key external contacts, including commissioners, partners and wider stakeholders.
Oversee the upkeep of the opportunity pipeline and research market trends, competitive landscapes, and potential opportunities in the health and care sector.​
Provide market insights to guide strategy and bid decisions.​Monitor policy changes that impact public sector procurement.
Use AI generated content to revolutionise content.
Build and maintain an AI library for bid generation.Possess a strong understanding of HCRG Care Group’s unique operational and transformational capabilities and products, to enhance our attractiveness to commissioners and provider partners.
Ability to understand complex service offers and ideas easily and quickly.
Ability to convey difficult or complex ideas or concepts in a clear and engaging manner – verbally and in writing
Consult with Corporate and Operational SMEs to gather bid content.
Consult with Corporate and Operational SMEs to contribute to drafting and bid refinement.
Ensure organisational USPs and win-themes are golden threads through each individual bid
Celebrate achievements by working with the Communications and Marketing Team to communicate this internally and to external parties
Support the operational teams to initiate the mobilisation of newly won business.

The Ideal Candidate
Proven ability to generate revenue through business growth within the health and care market.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to confidently pitch bid proposals, ideas and solutions to a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
Significant experience writing content for tenders and Business proposals.
Excellent people skills including listening, negotiation, inspiration and persuasion.Experience in leading teams.
Experience with Business Development and obtaining business intelligence.
Demonstratable experience working with and maintaining AI technology.
Possess resilience under pressure and experience of working in high-pressured deadline-driven environments.
Possess a conscientious nature with a high attention to detail.
Experience liaising and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Excellent time-management skills
Willingness to travel for work when required.
Detailed knowledge and experience of tendering processes (e.g., NHS England Commissioning processes) and procurement portals.

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. 

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. 

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. 

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