This is a home-based role with extensive travel across England to meet commissioners, developers and housing providers.

About us
Leonard Cheshire is the leader in enriching the lives of disabled people, committed to providing exceptional care and support. With a strong emphasis on quality, compassion, and professionalism, we are dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of people with a disability. 

About your role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the delivery of our 5-year growth strategy, through the development of effective relationships with key stakeholders such as commissioners, developers, housing providers and local authorities, you will lead the expansion of new supported living and complex nursing accommodation.

You will assess feasibility of the local market, identifying competitors and future customer demand, delivering a planned approach to effective business growth. With an understanding of funding streams you will lead on successful contract negotiations, providing innovative solutions. You will also work closely with the Finance team and other relevant internal departments to cost, plan, set up and hand over new services to our operations team.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have experience of securing new business and growth in social care or relevant/related sector. Within supported living services is desirable.
• Have experience of tendering for new and existing business, leading a development function including tender writers and bidding processes.
• Be able to develop excellent relationships with a range of stakeholders for new and existing business development.
• Be able to set and manage budgets and interpret complex financial and performance data.  
• Be experienced in a senior management role, including team management, to lead, develop and motivate a successful team.
• Demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills through tender submissions, strategic documents and presentations.

Please see the job description (link below) for more details.

We offer a wide range of employee rewards to include:

• Generous contributory company pension scheme with competitive life cover benefit.
• 25 days holiday per year, increasing one day per year to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays.
• Flexible annual leave, with the option to buy or sell (salary sacrifice).
• Private Health Insurance or Cash Health Plan membership.
• Group Income Protection Insurance.
• Access to cycle-to-work benefits (salary sacrifice).
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme.
• Wagestream, access earned pay before pay day (click here for more details).
• Long Service Awards and so much more!

Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applications from people with a disability, supporting where possible, your requirements for reasonable adjustments.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. A satisfactory disclosure check (PVG membership in Scotland) is required for this post. References will be obtained for all roles.

Shortlisting for this role may take place as applications are received. We therefore reserve the right to close this vacancy once suitable candidates have been appointed.

* No agencies please *