Helping businesses win new work
Outsourced bid, marketing, and business development support
We are celebrating our 3rd birthday!
Three years ago today, two lifelong friends, Alex Footman and Stephen Timmins, turned a shared ambition into a business, creating Stephen Alexander. Since then, our team has worked with businesses across the UK in various sectors to secure new work, helping them achieve their growth ambitions.
From strategic and hands-on marketing support to bidding for new work and business development training and support, we’ve worked on some amazing projects and with some incredible businesses.
What we do
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Bid Services
Winning new work through competitive bidding is complicated and requires specific skills and experience. Stephen Alexander helps businesses optimise their approach.
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Marketing Services
Marketing your business can feel complicated and overwhelming. Stephen Alexander help clients to deliver highly impactful marketing that generates a measurable return.
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Growth Services
Stephen Alexander work with businesses to help them increase pipeline and generate new leads through a range of business development campaigns and activities.
Meet the Stephen Alexander team
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Stephen Timmins
Co-Founder and Director
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Alex Footman
Co-Founder and Director
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Hannah Dimech
Client Marketing
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Danielle Butter-Jones
Social Media and Content Specialist
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Grace James
PR and Media Specialist
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Kate Terry
Office & Social Value Manager
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Adam Hutchison
Non-Executive Director
What our clients say
Insights and news
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Behind winning bids - managing key stakeholders
One of the most overlooked, yet critical, parts of any successful bid is the coordination of key stakeholders and subject matter experts. They hold the knowledge that sets your bid apart, and it’s the bid writer or manager’s role to make sure that knowledge is captured, shaped and submitted in the most compelling way possible.
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Business development isn’t just for sales teams
Business development shouldn’t be confined to sales teams. There are lots of people within a business that can contribute to growing new referral relationships, spotting new opportunities, and cross-selling to existing customers.
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Navigate your funding options to support business growth
Access to the right funding is often the difference between standing still and scaling up. Whether you're investing in new equipment, expanding your team, or simply managing cash flow more effectively, understanding the financial options available to you is essential.
Some of our clients
Get bid ready with Stephen Alexander
We help business optimise their approach to competitive bidding by looking at all aspects that influence the decision to choose a supplier or partner - from your marketing messages, social value activity, and, of course, approach to the bid process.
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Interim support
Managing capacity in marketing, bid and business development teams is difficult. We can support teams with our Capacity Booster service.
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Social value and ESG builder
We work with businesses to help them create and deliver innovative and compelling social value and ESG programmes.