Opportunities

Roles are available on a permanent, associate and part time basis, and include:

  • Highly competitive basic salary

  • Bonus scheme

  • Pension contribution up to 5%

  • Family friendly policies e.g. flexible working

  • Remote working or office base (or combination)

  • Wellbeing support package

  • Friendly, supportive team

Managing Consultant

 

The Role

The Managing Consultant will:

  • Support 50 Degrees’ clients with their business development requirements. This may include the development of their solution, their stakeholders/partners and/or their written submissions for contracts

  • Develop relationships with new clients and secure new business opportunities for 50 Degrees

The Managing Consultant will lead a team of subject matter experts and writers to provide one or more of the following:

  • Solution development facilitation

  • Bid management

  • Bid writing

  • Reviewing/storyboarding

  • Stakeholder engagement

  • Supply chain development

  • Research

The Managing Consultant will develop relationships with new business leads, including:

  • Networking/calls/events/meetings to develop leads

  • Developing proposals

  • Negotiating terms

The Managing Consultant will possess:

  • Wide experience of business development in public sector outsourcing

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Excellent customer relationship building skills

  • Excellent personal, project management and presentation skills

  • A track record of securing high value contracts

  • Personal credibility, with strong networks in at least one sector (justice, welfare to work, home affairs, education, defence, healthcare and local government)

  • A commercial mind-set and the ability to influence others accordingly

  • Flexibility and enthusiasm for working in a small and dynamic organisation

Principal Consultant (Solution Development Lead)

 

The Role

The Principal Consultant will:

  • Enable 50 Degrees’ clients to develop clear and compelling solutions in response to commissioner requirements

  • Develop solutions into winning bid responses or proposals

The Principal Consultant will work with a team of subject matter experts and writers to provide one or more of the following:

  • Solution development facilitation

  • Bid management

  • Bid writing

  • Reviewing/storyboarding

  • Research

The Principal Consultant will possess:

  • A strong track record of complex solution development in public service delivery

  • In-depth understanding of contract structures, and experience developing solutions tailored to client need through ideas, initiatives and new approaches

  • Degree level (or equivalent) qualification

  • Demonstrable track record of writing winning bids

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Excellent customer relationship building skills

  • Excellent personal, project management and presentation skills

  • A commercial mind-set, and the ability to influence others accordingly

  • Flexibility and enthusiasm for working in a small and dynamic organisation

Consultant
(Bid Writer)

 

The Role

The Consultant (Bid Writer) will:

  • Support 50 Degrees’ clients to develop and write high-quality, winning bid responses or proposals

The Consultant (Bid Writer) will work with a team of subject matter experts and writers to:

  • Write compelling, winning bids under the guidance of the Engagement Lead, drawing on a track record of producing high quality consistent bid responses

  • Analyse client requirements, including compliance and scoring

  • Help to identify win themes and story boarding to shape the content of responses

  • Access knowledge resources and input from subject matter experts and client internal teams to craft responses to specific questions, supported by evidence and case studies

  • Support bid production process

  • Manage and sustain resource/bid library through MS Sharepoint

The Consultant (Bid Writer) will possess:

  • Minimum three years of bid writing experience

  • Degree qualification (or equivalent)

  • Demonstrable track record of writing winning bids

  • Literacy in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint

  • Flexibility, calmness under pressure and the ability to take ownership

  • A thorough approach and keen attention to detail

  • A deadline focused and process orientated approach

  • Strong organisational skills and the capacity to take on a large volume of tasks

  • Commitment to seeing a task through from start to finish

  • Team skills, and a keenness to support others

  • Excellent personal, project management and presentation skills

  • Flexibility and enthusiasm for working in a small and dynamic organisation

Please contact Matt Wells mattwells@50-Degrees.com 07985 420 111 to find out more about us and the role… or, if the above roles aren’t for you but you think that 50 Degrees is, then we’re always keen to hear from talented people.


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