Debt Advice Business Development Manager

Reed Talent Solutions; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual leave

Pension contributions matched 2 to 1

Season ticket loan

Cycle to work scheme

Eye tests & flu jabs

Life assurance

EAP Assist & Life

Enhanced family and sick pay

2 paid volunteering days

Recognition scheme

Retail discounts portal

Job summary

Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) in Bedford is hiring a Debt Advice Business Development Manager. The role supports commissioning-ready service models, builds external partnerships, and translates market insight into funded, scalable debt-advice services across the UK.

You will help identify funding opportunities, shape service specifications, and contribute to major commissioning programmes, operating in a hybrid setup from Bedford.

Qualifications

• Experience working within the debt advice sector or related field.
• Experience supporting commissioning, funding, or service development in complex environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and partnership development skills.
• Ability to gather, interpret, and communicate market insight and sector intelligence.
• Experience working across functions to deliver shared outcomes.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Support commissioning and development by providing sector insight and evidence on delivery feasibility.
• Assist with major commissioning activity across community-based and national services.
• Contribute to design and refinement of services reflecting real-world delivery and sector capability.
• Identify emerging needs and funding opportunities to strengthen commissioning pipelines.
• Collaborate with teams to translate insights into scalable services.

Skills

Debt advice sector

Commissioning experience

Stakeholder engagement

Market insight

Partnership development

Communication

Job description

Debt Advice Business Development Manager

£63,000 per annum

Bedford

Permanent

Hybrid Working

Ready to make a real difference? Join us at the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) as our Debt Advice Business Development Manager. This is your chance to play a meaningful role in helping people across the UK build stronger financial futures and to do it as part of a supportive, energetic team.

Why This Role Matters

This role sits within the Debt Advice Development function, reporting to the Senior Debt Advice Innovation Manager. The role will support the development and delivery of commissioning‑ready service models by shaping external partnerships, market insight, and sector understanding across the debt advice system.

The role contributes to the development pipeline by identifying and securing new funding opportunities. This includes establishing and coordinating new co‑funding arrangements to deepen the impact of MaPS funded services. The role holder will translate sector engagement, delivery insight, and emerging needs into evidence that informs service development, innovation activity, and commissioning priorities.

The role plays a key enabling function in supporting MaPS’s major commissioning programmes for both community based and national services, by ensuring that services are grounded in real‑world delivery, market capacity, partner capability. Supporting the transition of service insights and delivery models from pilots and development activity into scalable and sustainable service provision.

Key responsibilities

• Supporting Commissioning and Development
• Support the development of commissioning‑ready service models by providing sector insight, market intelligence, and evidence on delivery feasibility, demand, and partner capability.
• Work alongside the Senior Debt Advice Innovation Manager and Commissioning colleagues to support MaPS major commissioning activity, including community based and nationally accessible services. Informing funding approaches, service specifications, and commissioning priorities.
• Contribute to the design and refinement of services by ensuring proposals reflect real‑world delivery, sector capability, and system constraints alongside insights from the wider development team.
• Support the development of commissioning pipelines by identifying emerging needs, service gaps, and opportunities for improvement across the debt advice system.

What You’ll Bring

To excel in this role, you will need to demonstrate:

• Experience working within the debt advice sector or a related field, with a strong understanding of delivery models and sector dynamics.
• Experience supporting commissioning, funding, or service development activity within a complex or multi‑stakeholder environment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and partnership development skills, with the ability to build relationships across organisations and sectors.
• Ability to gather, interpret, and communicate market insight and sector intelligence to inform decision making.
• Experience working collaboratively across functions to deliver shared outcomes.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly.
• Experience working alongside commissioning functions or supporting service specification and funding design.
• Experience generating new funding opportunities or establishing co‑funding agreements.
• Familiarity with innovation, pilot activity, or test‑and‑learn approaches and how these translate into scalable services.
• Experience engaging with delivery partners across voluntary, public, or regulated sectors.
• Understanding of how policy, funding, and delivery interact within public service systems.

Personal attributes

• Purpose-Driven – Committed to improving outcomes for people experiencing financial difficulty.
• Collaborative and Relationship-Focused – Builds strong partnerships across teams and organisations to support shared outcome.
• Insight-Driven and Curious – Seeks to understand sector dynamics, emerging trends, and system needs.
• Pragmatic and Solution-Oriented – Applies practical thinking to complex problems, balancing ambition with delivery realities.
• Adaptable and Responsive – Comfortable working in evolving environments and responding to change.

About Us

MaPS is based in bright, modern offices in Bedford, and we’re here to help people across the UK feel more confident and informed about their money.

Our values guide how we work together

• Caring – for colleagues and the communities we support
• Connecting – building supportive, positive relationships
• Transforming – creating impact that truly matters

We’re proud to foster an inclusive, welcoming culture. Our colleague networks include LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, women’s health, men’s health and ethnicity groups — and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.

What We Offer

• 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Pension contributions matched 2 to 1 (employer contribution up to 10% of your salary)
• Season ticket loan
• Cycle to work scheme (up to £3,000)
• Subsidised eye tests & flu jabs
• Life assurance
• EAP Assist & Life
• Enhanced family and sick pay
• 2 paid volunteering days
• Recognition scheme
• Retail discounts portal

Flexible Working

We believe work should fit around life. This Bedford based role offers genuine flexibility so you can balance work, family, and personal commitments. We come together for purposeful team collaboration to stay connected and drive great results.

Career Development

We love supporting internal growth and progression, while continuing to follow fair and open Civil Service recruitment practices.

Important Information About Applying: Please apply only via official MaPS links – we can’t accept applications via email or unauthorised sites. MaPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

Job Reference: MaPS01231

Close Date: 03/08/2026