Business Development Consultant

About us

We are a leading consultancy with a purpose to make an enduring impact on health and healthcare. We work with leaders and frontline teams to improve health, transform healthcare, drive adoption of innovation and create value through investment.

Our consultancy serves the entire healthcare sector, from payors and providers of care, to life science companies, health tech and sector suppliers and health investors. We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, accelerated by data, digital and AI.

We shape opinion through evidence-based thought leadership on key issues affecting health. With unmatched ability to access and use health data, our consultants are a driving force for delivering positive and meaningful change.

We are focused on building the leading consulting company dedicated to health. We serve the entire healthcare sector, including healthcare systems (providers, payors and regulators), life sciences (pharmaceuticals, biotech, devices and diagnostics), health technology, health investors, and the wider supplier landscape.

We provide end-to-end services, from strategy through implementation, supporting organisations to improve population health and healthcare outcomes. Our work spans strategy and transformation, finance and performance improvement, and delivery accelerated by data, digital and AI. We help clients understand their ambitions, identify opportunities to create value, apply innovation in practice, and deliver sustainable, measurable change.

Our consulting is accelerated by data. With an unmatched ability to access and use health data, we are recognised for our expertise in its safe and responsible application, improving health and healthcare delivery, supporting adoption of innovation, generating evidence, and informing decision-making. Our engineering and data science capabilities underpin our consulting and are also deployed directly with clients, often as part of multidisciplinary teams.

We are building a community of expert consultants who want to operate at the leading edge of the profession and who share a passion for health. Through structured career development from Analyst to Partner, underpinned by apprenticeship, mentorship and formal training, we are cultivating the leaders of the future and supporting individuals to develop distinctive expertise that creates value for our clients.

Our mission is to be invaluable to our clients, supporting them to innovate and make lasting improvements and to build an exceptional company that attracts, develops, and retains a trusted and uniquely talented team.

As a Business Development Consultant, you will support CF’s Health Systems practice by supporting the end-to-end business development activities and processes to manage and grow the practice.

This role requires strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to handle multiple priorities. You’ll work closely with the Business Development Manager, Partners and consulting and corporate teams to ensure business development efforts align to the Health System practice strategy and client needs to support our growth.

If you are proactive, detail-oriented, and eager to grow your expertise in business development and consulting focused in the healthcare sector, this role offers an excellent opportunity to make an impact.

• Assist in developing detailed, professional proposal documents that articulate CF's products, services, and unique value.
• Research and track future work opportunities that align with the objectives of CF.
• Effectively coordinate bid opportunities, including organising meetings, managing the storage of updates and clarifications, and uploading tender responses and queries.
• Manage our CRM by logging new opportunities, capturing key information about each opportunity, and recording and coding feedback we receive following bid submission.
• Provide bid support and administration to the Business Development Manager and bid teams for Health Systems.
• Create bid mobilisation documents, lodge clarification questions, complete bid compliance documents in line with client requirements, proof read, submit proposals via client online portals, collate CVs, case studies and other materials for proposals as needed.
• Support knowledge management through file management, templatisation of materials and collation of best‑practice materials for future use.
• Provide timely updates on the business development function to the SLT and wider business development function as needed.
• Leverage our CRM, CMap and other CF tools to build and maintain a robust repository of response content and bid enablement materials.
• Identify gaps and provide insights to enhance our proposal strategy based on customer feedback.
• Coordinate inputs for the Practice governance cycle, including supporting developing the strategy.

• 2+ years of experience in business development, business analyst, project management,…