Head of Bidding

Head of Bidding

As a Leader at Telent, you will be trusted and empowered to deliver critical and complex work. You'll be free to innovate, take ownership, and make smart, agile decisions. We need the best people to help us achieve our ambitions. Come, work in an environment where you can stretch your abilities and deliver on your potential. Help build and keep the nation's critical infrastructure connected and protected 24/7.

What you'll do:

Reporting to the Business Development Director, you will be responsible for leading & managing bids and tender submissions for the Transport business. Managing and leading a Bid Team based in both Warwick and London, you will plan the necessary resources to bid for opportunities as agreed with the Business Development Director. You will have full responsibility for ensuring that resources are utilized effectively & efficiently across the business to maximize opportunities the business decides to pursue.

You will seek to constantly improve the quality of bids, ensuring that best practice approaches to developing and producing bids are always pursued. You will continually monitor the costs being incurred by the business throughout the Bid process and will seek an ongoing improvement in Telent's "return on bid investment". Developing relationships with existing and potential customers including site-based meetings and presentations. Accountability for Bid team performance, KPIs and SLAs. You will be accountable for ensuring the end-to-end management & production of timely, high quality and ultimately successful bids in keeping with Telent's bid procedures. This will include:

1. Leading and developing Bid winning strategies in partnership with the opportunity owner
2. Producing material from Go/No Go stage through to deal review, Bid submission
3. Post Bid submission support including preparation and preparation of Bid proposals.
4. Bid Team workload planning, bid forecasting, cost and win/loss tracking & reporting.
5. Bid reviews - won & lost - including recommendations for improvement.
6. Telent's Bid wiki (Bid library) is updated and maintained.

Who you are:

Extensive experience of managing and leading a high performing and efficient Bid Team, driving efficiencies, reviews, and continual improvement ultimately leading to an improved Bid/Success conversation rate. Experience of leading and producing winning bids to the Public Sector in an environment such as Traffic, Rail, Intelligent Transport System, Defence, and Emergency Services markets. Strong project management and organizational skills. Financially astute with the ability to create & interpret financial reports and models. Broad understanding of Traffic, Rail, Telecommunications, and IT products, technologies, and services, including the operational, commercial, and financial aspects. APMP or equivalent qualification with demonstrable Bid wins and best practice. A proven ability to write and 'Red Review' answers to tender questions to a winning standard. Strong Microsoft Office skills. ITT Quality response writing skills. ITT Cost response financial skills. Proven experience of leading & delivering high and medium-value bids, ideally in a services or solutions environment. Ability to present, persuade and influence at all levels via strong interpersonal communications skills. Experience of identifying Customer's business problems and developing commercial propositions to meet the requirement. Senior leadership skills with demonstrable experience of building a winning and high performing Bid Team. Ability to communicate at all levels of an organization. A winning and 'can do' attitude that is undented by any failures. A strong and natural mindset of ownership and accountability. Ability to work independently whilst retaining a team-based approach and maintaining strong personal relationships. A high level of emotional intelligence.

What we offer:

A career at Telent can span sectors, roles, technologies, and customers giving you the opportunity to develop, learn new skills and make an impact. We are growing and we rely on our committed Team to deliver. We nurture the talent that makes this happen, by our ongoing commitment to creating an inclusive culture that respects and values difference, that celebrates diverse ideas. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work.

The additional benefits with this role:

• Vehicle: Ben2
• Medical - Employee
• 34 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell up to ten days per year
• Company pension scheme.
• A range of family-friendly policies
• Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal
• Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants, and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme.

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Job Info

Job Title: Head of Bidding

Company: TSS Solutions Ltd

Location: Nuneaton, Warwickshire

Salary: Competitive

Posted: Apr 2nd 2025

Closes: May 3rd 2025

Sector: Telecoms

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

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