Junior Bid Manager

Junior Bid Managers are an integral part of our Pensions Sales team, responsible for the leadership and project management of the bid process and ultimately helping deliver high quality, winning bids.

Our Junior Bid Managers are engaged throughout the sales cycle, including at initial opportunity qualification, development of the win strategy and operational solutions, managing the client submission and our governance cycle and, of course, coordinating the efforts to build and submit proposals that genuinely delight our clients.

Job Description

Interviews will be taking place in January.

What you’ll be doing:

• Project manage the bid process, including establishing an agreed bid plan and timeline, allocating tasks and monitoring progress against the plan.
• Contribute to or take a lead in creating core bid management artefacts including win strategies, response allocation plan, qualification packs, risk logs and stakeholder management plans.
• Manage communications with clients (generally via eProcurement portals or email).
• Manage the bid sign-off and governance process for smaller bid opportunities.
• Manage the bid related GDPR and Data Privacy requirements.
• Take ownership of preparing core bid responses, developing bid collateral and supporting SMEs in writing technical responses.
• Deliver the final, collated bid response, including responsibility for ensuring compliance with client requirements and a quality submission for owned bids.
• Undertake research to support the Sales Lead in developing a winning strategy.
• Be the main point of contact for pursuit team members, ensuring team members and stakeholders are briefed on progress and development as required.
• Take an active role in the production of standard bid content and knowledge management materials, establishing and maintaining an effective Bid Library.
• Educate colleagues and new starters working on pursuits on the relevant bid and sales processes, governance, tools, and materials available.
• Manage and update the bid and sales process and governance documents and templates.
• Run opportunity debrief / lessons learned sessions once the outcome of a bid is known.
• Monitor and track bid performance metrics, analysing win / loss and key MI data to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Stay updated on industry trends and emerging best practices in bid management to make improvements to implementation of bid best practice.

What we’re looking for:

• Demonstrable experience working in a bidding environment with a strong understanding of the bidding process.
• Helping to develop, and win, compelling client propositions.
• Developing compelling and effective collateral for presentations, proposals and submissions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to effectively engage with stakeholders at a senior level and clients.
• Brilliant organisational skills.
• Self-starter, can do attitude, being comfortable with ambiguity.
• Proficient at working in a ‘virtual first’ organisation and building a strong network.
• Excellent IT skills, and specifically with Microsoft Office365.
• Highly developed relationship management skills with the ability to bring people together to meet a common outcome.
• A growth mindset with the willingness to learn and ability to teach and inspire others to learn.

About Capita Pension Solutions

Capita Pension Solutions is one of the UK’s leading pension firms. We provide an unrivalled breadth of services to over 600 schemes covering over 6 million members. Our team use their experience, insight, expertise, and latest technology to deliver personalised end to end solutions to meet all of their clients’ pension needs. Our services include pensions administration, data & remediation solutions, software, actuarial, investment, scheme management, and member communications.

What’s in it for you?

In this role, you would have the opportunity to add real value from the outset and drive the direction of the team that work on a host of high-profile pension bids.

• Company matched pension, life assurance, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more!

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We’re an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you’d like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email reasonableadjustments@capita.com or call 07784 237318 and we’ll get back to you.