Job Title: Business Development Manager

Hours: Full Time, 36 hours per week

Job Status: Permanent

Location: Home-based - with the expectation of travel within area and nationally where required.

Salary: £52,575.15

Closing Date:27 April 2025

Interview Date(s): Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th May 2025

Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.

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Reporting to the Head of Business Development, the Business Development Manager will be critical in ensuring Skills for Care continues to grow its sources of revenue by winning contracts through competitive bids and proposals, as well as through our commercial offer of products. This will support and enable Skills for Care to continue to pursue its charitable objectives and continue creating positive outcomes and impacts for the adult social care sector.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of working within bidding activity, with the ability to handle and secure business development opportunities, and experience of sales and/or commercialisation of successful products / services.

You will be commercially aware, with strong business acumen and an understanding of business principles. Ideally, with experience of working within a commercial environment and have experience of working in the adult social care sector and/or the education and training / learning and development sector.

The role will be responsible for proactively looking for funding and bidding opportunities, leading the assessment of such opportunities and also leading the work with subject matter experts and other relevant colleagues and partners to develop, cost and submit robust and compelling high-quality bids and proposals.

The Business Development Manager will be proactive in monitoring performance of our commercial offer and be key in securing revenue through our commercial products portfolio by; supporting the gathering and utilisation of market intelligence and insights to assess the commercial viability, working with marketing and communications colleagues to promote and increase sales and being a key point of contact with other teams regarding the organisation’s various commercial offer products

You should be a self-starter who is motivated to identify and secure business opportunities and have high levels of attention to detail.

If you are interested in this roles, please access the full job description for further information and we look forward to receiving your application.

At Skills for Care, we are committed to creating a culture of Belonging, where all of our People are able to contribute to their full potential. All our People are expected to contribute towards the achievement of our aspirations for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. To find out more please check our website (https://(url removed)/About-us/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion.aspx).

At Skills for Care, we want our People to be representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us with all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We encourage applications from, but not limited to, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.

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Information about reasonable adjustments

We want all applicants to be able to fully participate in our selection processes. We welcome requests for adjustments to our recruitment and selection processes from applicants with disabilities, impairments, or health conditions, and will always consider support available in the recruitment process.

Please contact our People Team via email ((url removed)) to discuss any adjustments that you may need.

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