Market Development Manager – Stanton House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
The Market Development Manager plays a pivotal role within the Adult Social Care Commissioning and Market Development service, shaping how local care and support markets evolve to meet the needs of communities across Cambridgeshire. The team works collaboratively across commissioning, contract management and market shaping, ensuring the Council meets its statutory duties while delivering highquality, sustainable services that make a real difference to peoples lives.
In this influential role, you will lead and drive market development activity, championing innovation, continuous improvement and high standards of care across the sector. You will work closely with providers and partners, building strong, trusted relationships while overseeing key projects that support a resilient and responsive care market. Using insight, data and market intelligence, you will identify opportunities, address gaps in provision, and proactively manage risks to ensure the right services are in place both now and for the future.
Your work will have a direct and lasting impactsupporting the Council to navigate financial and market pressures, strengthen service sustainability, and deliver better outcomes for residents. By embedding commercial best practice and leading on valueformoney and benefit realisation, you will help shape commissioning decisions, support local economic growth, and ensure adult social care markets contribute positively to community wellbeing and independence across Cambridgeshire.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Gurdev Singh gurdev.singh@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Standard Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About you
We are looking for a person who is motivated and forward-thinking, who can bring strong leadership, commercial insight and a passion for improving adult social care markets. You will be someone who enjoys working collaboratively, thrives on delivering improvement, and is confident in influencing both peers and senior stakeholders.
You may already have direct experience within care and support markets, or you may bring transferable skills from a related sectorYou will demonstrate the ability to think strategically, interpret complex information, and translate this into impactful outcomes.
You will bring experience of developing and delivering strategic plans, working collaboratively with teams to support long-term organisational goals, identifying and leading continuous improvement and efficiency initiatives, with a clear focus on tracking performance and realising tangible benefits.
You will have experience of leading and developing high-performing teams, setting clear expectations and using insight to drive performance improvement, as well as managing projects from initiation through to delivery, ensuring outcomes are achieved and benefits are realised.
Your application will demonstrate effective project and resource management, the abiity to balance priorities within a dynamic environment, the application of risk management and governance principles, including experience of market oversight and responding to provider or market challenges, driving improvement, transformation or efficiency through commissioning, procurementor service redesign.
You will be someone with experience of contributing to market and commercial strategy development, ideally within care and support or a related sector, delivering measurable commercial outcomes through commissioning,procurementand supplier engagement activity, managing contracts across their lifecycle, with a strong understanding of compliance,performance and risk management.
You will be able to embedd commercial awareness across multi-disciplinary teams and confidently influence decision-making at a senior level. You will be someone who can demonstrate these strengths through a variety of professional experiences and someone committed to making a positive difference to communities and residents.
Please use your supporting statement in your application to outline how your skills and experience meet the essential criteria outlined in the Job Description/Person specification.
We kindly ask that if you have previously applied for this role within the past 3 months, you refrain from reapplying at this stage, as your previous application is still on record.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.https://youtu.be/DDE1nplZttYVisit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers…