Hybrid Bid Manager – 6 month FTC

at Wifinity

• Job title: Bid Manager – 6 month FTC
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Leading Bid Manager role at Wifinity winning contracts in the telecommunications and IT sectors. Focus on proposals, tenders, and procurement management.

Responsibilities

• 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.