About us
Stephen Alexander was set up with one aim in mind: help businesses win new work.
We deliver on this for every client we work with by bringing together the key disciplines that are critical for business growth; marketing, business development and bid management. We help businesses to pitch and bid for new clients and contracts, stand out from the crowd, build better brand awareness, and communicate more effectively.
An award-winning consultancy
In 2023 we won the 'New Business/Start-Up of the Year 2023' award at the Midlands Service Excellence Awards – one of the region’s leading awards programmes that recognises organisations for delivering exceptional client service.
Why choose to work with us?
Many businesses struggle to find the time to focus on growth, tied down by the day-to-day running of the business and by serving existing clients.
Some cannot invest in the right expertise to deliver what is needed to grow the business or simply don’t know where to start in creating a plan that delivers growth. Whatever your situation, the team at Stephen Alexander can help.
By bringing together expertise in marketing, business development, and bid management, we support businesses in the areas that are critical to drive business growth.
Meet the Stephen Alexander team
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Stephen Timmins
Stephen works with clients across a range of sectors to help them optimise their approach to bidding for new work. Developing bid strategies, writing bid content, developing a pipeline of opportunities and more.
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Alex Footman
Alex works with businesses to help them design and develop marketing and business development strategies. He also helps clients to implement activity across a range of marketing channels with a focus on generating new opportunties.
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Anna White
Anna works with our clients to provide outsourced marketing and communications support, designing and delivering a wide range of campaigns and projects to help businesses create better brand awareness and win new work.
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Kate Terry
Kate is our Office Manager and oversees all the key operational elements of our business and provides administrative support to our bid, marketing, and business development services.
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Adam Hutchison
Adam is our Non-Executive Director and provides strategic direction and support to the business, helping us to monitor performance, manage risk and governance, and provides general ongoing support to our directors.
Our story
Our founders, Stephen Timmins and Alex Footman, are lifelong friends, having grown up together in Worcestershire, living just two doors apart for most of their childhood.
After school they studied at separate universities in Birmingham, and then went on to have successful careers in senior marketing, business development and bid strategy roles, for a range of organisations including global banks, AIM-listed businesses, and some of the largest contractors in the UK.
Having gained over 40 years of combined experience in marketing and business development roles, Stephen and Alex saw an opportunity to create a unique consultancy: one that combines the key elements of the work winning process to help businesses achieve more and grow. And so Stephen Alexander was born.
Our values
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Committed
We only take on projects where we can deliver real value to our clients.
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Logical
We keep things simple
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Innovative
We bring new ideas and innovation to help you stand out from the crowd.
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Passionate
We are passionate and driven people and love what we do.
Find out more about what we do
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Marketing Services
Marketing your business can feel complicated and overwhelming. We help our clients to deliver highly impactful marketing that generates a return.
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Growth Services
We work with businesses to help them increase pipeline and generate new leads through a range of business development campaigns and activities.
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Bid Services
The world of competitive bidding to support business growth can be complicated and time consuming. We help businesses overcome these challenges.