Senior Business Development Partner; Maternity Cover

Senior Business Development Partner (Maternity Cover)

Apply for the Senior Business Development Partner (Maternity Cover) role at Community Integrated Care.

Do you have a background in business development within health and social care? Are you commercially minded and able to build excellent relationships? Do you want to make a difference to the lives of people with a learning disability or mental health condition? If so, this could be the job for you!

Community Integrated Care is recruiting a Senior Business Development Partner to join our team on a 12‑month maternity cover contract covering our Midlands and Central business regions.

• Flexibility:
  You can work your 37.5 hours over 4 days and enjoy a long weekend, or split the hours over 5 days. Work from home, a regional office, or a mix. Travel to various locations throughout the Midlands and support other regions when necessary.
• Competitive Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 (+£5k Car Allowance)
• Pension: contributory pension scheme
• Benefits: retail discounts, holiday discounts, cycle‑to‑work scheme and travel discounts through our benefits app
• Best Lives Better:
  You’ll be working for an award‑winning charity passionate about ensuring our colleagues and the people we support lead the best lives better.
• Development:
  We’ll work with you to develop your career and learn new things. We’re passionate about developing our people!
• Support:
  From our Employee Assistance Programme (24/7), financial support options, and wellbeing fund you’ll have support available to lead an easier financial life.

Our business development team is looking for a positive, energetic and creative individual to take on the role of Senior Business Development Partner in our Midlands/Central region. We are a welcoming and supporting team who value fun, commitment and teamwork. The role is varied and challenging with flexible working (37.5 hours over 4 days).

Travel will be a requirement. The ideal candidate must live in the Midlands area and have a good working knowledge of the commissioning landscape in health and social care in the region.

• Develop and present partnership proposals, working alongside the Director for Business Development to deliver bespoke bids, formal tenders and joint ventures where needed.
• Manage a portfolio of relationships, including commissioners, housing associations, public sector & corporate organisations, private funders and investors.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the sector, local markets, government initiatives and competitors.
• Progress diversification strategies and service redesign to meet the changing needs of the social care landscape and deliver 'best lives better'.
• Engage with our funders to ensure that our services are sustainable and have opportunities for collaborative redesign, always striving to improve and create efficiencies.
• Serve as a brand ambassador.

• Self‑motivated and proactive in seeking opportunities and partnerships.
• Visionary and able to deliver on strategy.
• Detail‑oriented with a strong focus on accuracy.
• Comfortable with unexpected challenges.
• Enjoys variety in the role.
• Excellent communicator with existing relationships across the sector.

• Experience in business development within a social care organisation, ideally in learning disabilities or mental health – essential.
• Experience securing new business through competitive tendering.
• Strong people skills with a natural ability to lead, inspire and motivate teams.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills to manage a complex workload with shifting deadlines.
• Experience in managing budgets, financial planning and risk management.
• Deep knowledge of the care industry, including regulatory and contractual frameworks and government legislation.

Please note, if you are interested in this role, we welcome your application as soon as possible! Depending on the volume of applications received, the vacancy may close before the advertised end date.

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