Bid Manager

Your day-to-day duties as a Bid Manager will include:

• Interfacing between Sales, Delivery, Product, Supplier Intel & BI and Clients including stakeholder management and communications between them.
• Creating and overseeing bid process plans including content capture and management, and client guidance on behalf the client to ensure successful placement on central procurement body frameworks, inclusive of writing and creating all user and delivery guides.
• Devising a successful strategy for winning bids, including pinpointing the key requirements (key differentiators) of the bid pack, understanding the procurement body specific requirements, and conveying those to the team and the clients.
• Managing the bid team in which specialists undertake separate parts of the bidding process.
• Managing the technical platform configuration and reporting including alerts and dashboards to ensure the bid is delivered on time, against all interim KPIs for each client, ensuring the client has a smooth and pain free successful and education experience.
• Motivate, manage and develop the team, including PDPs and liaising with our Academy on their skills development and knowledge improvement.
• Influencing the bid qualification (bid go / no go) process for new opportunities.
• Identifying all the required content for each specific lot of the contract and ensure that all clients are fully briefed on each requirement.
• Risk tracking and management throughout the bid process, creating templates to assess, record and remediate technical, knowledge, resource and client risks.
• Contributing to the written proposal Ensuring the winning strategy and win themes are articulated effectively throughout the bid response, showing excellent appreciation of buyer needs.
• Drive continuous improvement through post-bid reviews and retrospective lessons learned for continuous service improvement.

As a Bid Manager you will have:

• Proven ability in delivering projects
• Minimum of 3 years leading a team
• APMP Practitioner or Professional level / Prince 2 Qualified
• Good written English and technical writing experience
• Ability to manage risks and complex, multi-workstream opportunities
• Excellent analytical skills with a critical eye for detail
• Proven leadership ability in office-based environments
• Excellent communicator, comfortable working at CEO/Director level
• Ability to present data clearly and concisely
• Highly organised, with an ability to work to strict deadlines