Hybrid Bid Manager – 6 month FTC

Posted 5 days ago

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About the role

  • You will play a leading role in ensuring we win major contracts within the public and private sector.
  • The focus will primarily be on writing proposals, tenders and managing the procurement process to a successful conclusion.
  • You’ll establish and maintain a framework and tender repository, ensuring the way we communicate to customers is consistent and of a high quality standard.
  • The Bid Manager will assemble and manage a bid team that has the skills to prepare and submit a winning bid, whilst taking ownership of the end-to-end bid process.
  • You’ll be significantly involved pre-RFP by sourcing the tenders, driving the supplier questionnaire phase and ensuring all resources are aligned to the client’s requirements long before the bid process starts.
  • After bid submission, the Bid Manager remains involved throughout the presentation and contract negotiation stages.
  • Identifying critical win factors as part of the tender qualification process.
  • Mobilising and managing a virtual bid team of sales, marketing, product, finance, commercial, legal and project management.
  • Ensuring bids follow governance gates and are signed off at the appropriate levels.
  • Ensuring key stakeholders adhere to the agreed timelines for submitting their individual contributions. You will also edit their responses to ensure that our responses have a consistent tone of voice.
  • Formally handing over the project to installations teams.
  • Managing sales enablement tools to ensure that all customer facing materials are consistently updated and easy to access.
  • Capturing lessons learned post contract award notice, ensuring all lessons learned are fed back and implemented.

Requirements

  • Proven experience of Bid Management experience within the telecommunications and/or IT sector.
  • Proven experience of Public Sector tendering
  • Extensive bid writing experience
  • Technical awareness including an understanding of wireless and wired internet / network based solutions
  • A strong intellect, quick thinking with the ability to understand, manage and influence multiple stakeholders. Able to influence at senior levels within the organisation.
  • Excellent written and verbal skills ensuring technical and non technical responses are tailored to the correct audience and in a consistent tone of voice.
  • An excellent understanding of bid processes, procedures and best practices.
  • Bid content and collaboration tool experience required.
  • Proven experience in all aspects of the bid development process, and core competencies of Bid Management with a demonstrable record of success in managing and winning bids.
  • Commercial and contractual acumen.

Job title

Bid Manager – 6 month FTC

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Mid levelSenior

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Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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