Strategic Partnership Lead

Strategic Partnership Lead 

National role - Hybrid with occasional national travel

Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary £48,000 - £50,000 per annum, negotiable based on skills and experience plus brilliant benefits including Health Cash plan!     

Home, a place where you belong 

A brilliant opportunity for you to join our business development team.

You will help us develop and maintain strategic partnerships that support a pipeline of growth and sustain current business in our supported housing and care services across England.

We must grow at the right time in the right places; it is important to us that we collaborate with a wide range of partners to ensure we are delivering on the things that matter to our customers every day.

You’ll manage a variety of opportunities and relationships to help us retain and win new business - this is where you’ll make your mark!

Typical day as a Strategic Partnership Lead


* As an expert in your area, you will lead and influence growth by identifying opportunities and developing bespoke solutions to commissioner and customer need.


* You will support operational leaders to sustain current business and ensure services remain viable and deliverable.


* You will build and nurture key stakeholder relationships with a range of external and internal partners.


* You’ll be seeking out new opportunities, by building commissioner relationships at a place-based, community and Integrated Care Board level.


* Working closely with our operational managers you will use your commercial acumen and knowledge of external Health and Social Care commissioning environments to develop innovative services that encourage people to thrive. 

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for a top 10 Great Place to Work in the UK Employer!

You bring 


* Demonstrable experience in health and or social care commissioning


* Excellent written and presentation skills particularly the ability to construct precise persuasive propositions for commissioners


* An understanding of commercial issues including commissioning approaches and pricing


* Direct experience of leading negotiation conversations with external partners


* An understanding of commercial governance and business development


* To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes.

The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage! 

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review 

Our team  

You'll be guided by Sarah, our Lead Business Development Manager, with 19 years of experience here, and Darren, our Head of Business Development, who brings 20 years in the sector and over a decade with us.

They foster a supportive, creative team where new ideas thrive.

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