BID MANAGER (10425)

An exceptional chance to join our well known client as a Bid Manager in their workplace services department.

This role will provide bid management support as part of the central sales, bids and marketing team, assisting with project activity relating to complex bid projects. The role will require strong project, time management and organisational skills and a disciplined and structured approach to work planning and task prioritisation

The ideal candidate will have experience with recruitment, professional services or outsourcing and excellent communication skills. It would also suit someone looking to take the next step in their bid career.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Regularly monitoring portals and inboxes to capture and respond to new tenders, leads and opportunities

• Logging all opportunities, ensuring they are flagged to the relevant sales managers, and followed up in a timely manner

• Responsible for ensuring all declarations and mandatory requirements are completed in a timely and accurate manner

• Ensuring commercial documents are escalated and reviewed

• Collating and contributing to clarification questions

• Driving subject matter expert input

• Writing “right first time” content and responses

• Escalating new technology proposals for approval

• Producing content for internal governance approval

• Coordinating and processing clarification questions

• Coordinating team lessons learned post-submission and applying them to each subsequent bid opportunity

• Portal administration, response uploads and submissions

• Producing compelling visual content for sales presentations

• Providing absence cover for the bid coordinator, bid writers and the head of bids

Person Specification:

      Qualifications

• Ideally degree educated (or equivalent)

Experience/Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to write compelling and winning content which clearly articulates a sales solution

• Experience of writing for public and private sector audiences would be highly advantageous

• An understanding of financial modelling for bids of varying sizes

• Demonstrable understanding of bid outputs and delivering multiple opportunities at any one time

• Exceptional project management skills, with great attention to detail

• Demonstrable experience of prioritising workloads and working to deadlines

• Understanding of project risk

• Ability to communicate at all levels

• MS Office skills (advanced Word, Visio and PowerPoint, intermediate Excel)

• Experience of graphic design software would be advantageous

• Demonstrable experience within recruitment, professional services or outsourcing

• Ability to work calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced sales environment

• A positive can-do attitude, willing to go above and beyond