Bid Development Lead

Home Group; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Cash Plan

34 days annual leave (39 with me day)

Pension matching up to 7%

Job summary

Home Group is seeking a Bid Development Lead to secure new business and renewals across support contracts. You will own the end-to-end bid process, ensuring high-quality, compliant submissions that reflect the company’s strengths and commercial value.

You will guide horizon scanning, govern submissions through defined gateways, and partner with finance, legal and HRD. You’ll lead a team of bid writers, coaching them to perform under pressure while delivering robust, timely responses.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in bid and tender management, ideally within the supported housing sector.
• Excellent leadership, team management and coaching skills, with the confidence to set direction, support performance and hold others to account.
• Strong written, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to produce and improve high-quality bid responses.
• Experience of quality assuring submissions and applying continuous improvement practices, using feedback, outcomes and lessons learned to strengthen future bids.
• Confidence working at pace, managing competing deadlines, prioritising effectively and keeping others focused, calm and clear on what matters most.

Responsibilities

• You’ll lead the end-to-end bid and tender process, ensuring submissions are high quality, commercially robust, compliant and clearly reflect Home Group’s strengths.
• You’ll support horizon scanning for new business opportunities, using tendering portals to review, recommend and maximise growth opportunities across our product portfolio.
• You’ll apply our gateway approval processes and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including finance, legal and HRD to support robust governance and successful submissions.
• You’ll lead quality assurance and continuous improvement across the bid process, using feedback, outcomes and data to strengthen our bid library and future responses.
• You’ll lead, coach and support our team of bid writers, setting clear expectations and helping them deliver high-quality work under pressure.

Skills

Bid management

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Quality assurance

Negotiation

Project management

Job description

• Salary circa £48,000 per annum negotiable based on skills and experience plus brilliant benefits including Health Cash Plan!

• Salary circa £48,000 per annum negotiable based on skills and experience plus brilliant benefits including Health Cash Plan!

Home, a place where you belong

Join us in playing a key role in securing new business and renewal opportunities across Home Group’s support contracts. As our Bid Development Lead, you’ll lead the end-to-end bid and tender process, ensuring submissions are high quality, commercially robust, fully compliant and clearly demonstrate the value of our services. You’ll bring commercial insight to bid decisions, helping assess opportunities, risks, pricing assumptions and strategic fit before we commit resource.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll lead the end-to-end bid and tender process, ensuring submissions are high quality, commercially robust, compliant and clearly reflect Home Group’s strengths.
• You’ll support horizon scanning for new business opportunities, using tendering portals to review, recommend and maximise growth opportunities across our product portfolio.
• You’ll apply our gateway approval processes and work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders including finance, legal and HRD to support robust governance and successful submissions.
• You’ll lead quality assurance and continuous improvement across the bid process, using feedback, outcomes, data and best practice to strengthen our bid library and future responses.
• You’ll lead, coach and support our team of bid writers, setting clear expectations and helping them deliver high-quality work under pressure.

Why join us

You’ll join our Business Development team who are super passionate about what we do! Come and be part of one of the UK’s Great Places to Work! We can’t offer a CoS for this role.

You have

• Strong experience in bid and tender management, ideally within the supported housing sector.
• Excellent leadership, team management and coaching skills, with the confidence to set direction, support performance and hold others to account.
• Strong written, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to produce and improve high-quality bid responses.
• Experience of quality assuring submissions and applying continuous improvement practices, using feedback, outcomes and lessons learned to strengthen future bids.
• Confidence working at pace, managing competing deadlines, prioritising effectively and keeping others focused, calm and clear on what matters most.

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

The practical bits

• Flexible working hours (or we’re open to agreeing a work pattern with you)
• You’ll manage your own diary, so if you need to take delivery of your new fridge or take a longer lunch for a haircut, you can use your flexi time to manage that!
• Our team is spread nationally – so we take it in turns where we host our monthly face to face team meeting! Our offices are in Leeds, London, Birmingham and Newcastle, so every now and then you’ll be going further afield.
• We also regularly visit services we’re supporting with tenders, so you’ll need to be okay with travelling (we cover train or milage expenses of course!)

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave, rising to 39 (this includes bank holidays and a “me day”). The option to buy 5 more each year
• Matching pension contribution (up to 7% and life insurance of 3x basic salary)
• 800+ discounts on shops, holidays, days out, tech and more
• Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal, fertility and menopause support
• Career path with development and excellent training package.

Finally

For reasonable adjustments email [email protected]. Roles can close early, so don’t delay applying. If you can’t see the Job Description at the top of this page, find out more about us.