We are looking for a proactive, commercially minded professional with experience in bid writing, tender management, or NHS healthcare contracting to lead the development of high-quality, compelling tender submissions that secure new business and retain existing contracts. Working closely with clinical, operational, finance, HR, and governance teams.
You will manage the end-to-end bid process, build strong relationships with NHS commissioners and key healthcare stakeholders, and help drive our strategic growth across the NHS and wider healthcare sector. If you have exceptional writing skills, strong attention to detail, an understanding of NHS commissioning and procurement, and a passion for improving healthcare outcomes, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a bid content library, including case studies,
- organisational information, policies, and quality statements.
- Ensure all submissions comply with procurement requirements and
- organisational governance standards.
- Maintain a tender tracker detailing opportunities, submissions, outcomes, and lessons learned.
- Act as a trusted business partner representing the organisation in senior stakeholder meetings and forums.
- Research market opportunities through procurement portals and healthcare publications.
- Assist in the creation of presentations, proposals, and supporting documentation.
- Facilitate bid planning meetings and coordinate contributions from relevant departments.
- Produce engaging and persuasive written responses that clearly demonstrate compliance and added value.
About us
About Us
Badger is a not for profit social enterprise and has been providing NHS GP out of hours and urgent primary care services in Birmingham and Solihull since 1996. Rated as Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in March 2024, we have built a respected reputation throughout Birmingham and the surrounding areas.
Our Values
Our SERQ values are the engine of excellence, supporting and driving the ways we work to ensure quality care for our patients
Safety: We believe in safety for all.
Efficiency: We eliminate waste and delay for the benefit of our patients.
Respect: We respect diversity in all its forms and treat everyone fairly.
Quality: We deliver high quality services, where everyone is a quality controller.
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with Badger. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI
Company Benefits
£40K to £45k Per annum depending on experienceFull timePermanentAt Badger sites/ services across Birmingham and Solihull, and othersites as required by the role/ service development (in person)
Cycle to work Scheme
Free parking
NHS Smartcard
BHSF health Cash Plan (access to preventative health services)
Job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities outlined in this jobdescription are neither definitive nor restrictive and may change in detailfrom time to time to meet the changing needs of the operation.
Bid Management and Writing
- Lead thedevelopment and writing of high-quality tender responses.
- Review tenderdocumentation, specifications, and evaluation criteria.
- Coordinate theend to end bid process, ensuring deadlines are met. Produceengaging and persuasive written responses that clearly demonstrate complianceand added value.
- Tailorresponses to reflect commissioner priorities, local population needs, andhealthcare strategies.
- Ensure allsubmissions are accurate, compliant, and aligned with organisationalobjectives.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Workcollaboratively with clinical and non-clinical subject matter experts to gatherinformation for tender responses.
- Facilitate bidplanning meetings and coordinate contributions from relevant departments.
- Build strongrelationships with internal stakeholders to maintain a library of up-to-datebid content.
Research
- Research marketopportunities through procurement portals and healthcare publications.
- Monitor NHS andhealthcare policy developments relevant to commissioning and procurement.
- Analysecompetitor activity and market trends.
- Support theproduction of business cases and service proposals.
Content Development
- Develop andmaintain a bid content library, including case studies, organisationalinformation, policies, and quality statements.
- Continuouslyimprove tender responses using lessons learned and feedback from commissioners.
- Assist in thecreation of presentations, proposals, and supporting documentation.
Governance and Compliance
- Ensure allsubmissions comply with procurement requirements and organisational governancestandards.
- Maintainaccurate records of tender activity and outcomes.
- Contribute topost-tender reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
Reporting
- Maintain atender tracker detailing opportunities, submissions, outcomes, and lessonslearned.
- Produce regularreports on bid activity and success rates.
Relationship Building & StakeholderEngagement
- Build andmaintain effective, collaborative relationships with NHS commissioners,provider organisations,ICS representatives, local authorities, andthird-sector partners.
- Act as atrusted business partner representing the organisation in senior stakeholdermeetings and forums.
- Facilitateongoing engagement activities to gather feedback, support service integration,and enhance patient outcomes.
- Developstakeholder communication plans to ensure consistent and transparentengagement.
The duties and responsibilities outlined in this jobdescription are neither definitive nor restrictive and may change in detailfrom time to time to meet the changing needs of the operation.
Person Specification
Experience
- Experience
- Strong understanding of NHS commissioning
- processes, provider dynamics, and healthcare policy.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with ability
- to influence senior NHS and healthcare leaders.
- Experience managing formal corporate
- communications and brand-building activities.
- or proposals.
- Experience managing multiple deadlines in a fast
- paced environment.
- Experience working with complex documentation
- and specifications.
- Experience coordinating contributions from multiple
- stakeholders.
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Understanding of public sector procurement
- processes.
- Knowledge of NHS commissioning and healthcare
- services.
- Understanding of quality, governance, and
- compliance requirements.
- Clear and confident communicator, adept at
- preparing professional written and verbal materials.
- Ability to balance commercial priorities with a
- commitment to improving patient care.
- Strong analytical skills
- Proficient in using MS Office particularly Word,
- Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Other attributes
- Passionate about improving health outcomes and
- Self motivated and proactive.
- Able to work independently and collaboratively.
- Resilient under pressure and able to meet tight
- deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
- Commitment to Badger's values and patient-centred
- Willingness to work occasional evenings or
- Ability to travel to attend meetings Right to work in the UK
Qualifications
- Educational Qualification
- Educated to degree level, or a related field, or
- Education and Qualification
- Relevant qualifications in business development, healthcare management.
- Experience
- Experience using procurement portals such as Atamis, Bravo, In-Tend, Proactis, or Delta.
- Experience within healthcare, NHS, primary care, urgent care, or community services.
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Experience working within or alongside NHS Trusts,ICSs, or CCGs.
- Knowledge of service transformation, patient pathways, and integrated care models.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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