Job Description
Title: Bid Manager / Bid Management
Location: HOME BASED (You can live anywhere in the UK)
Salary: Highly Competitive Salary + Excellent Bonus + Mobile + Laptop + Excellent Company Pension + Great Company Benefits
Organisation: A highly reputable progressive, modern and innovative Multi £Billion Facilities Management (FM) organisation.
Sector: Security Systems
Job Purpose
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly capable individual to help us in increasing the quality and quantity of bids and to support successful delivery of all tender documentation. This role will require a highly motivated professional with excellent interpersonal and writing skills who will own the bid process from start to finish.
This role will suit someone with bid managing experience looking to further develop their career. The successful candidate will either have a degree that requires a substantial proficiency in writing with some experience in bid management and/or have a number of years experience in a bid writing position with a drive to develop your career.
Key Duties
* Work within the company Bid Process procedure to support the delivery of high-quality tender materials.
* Collateral development- writing/editing input from a variety of stakeholders typically involving contributions from sales, marketing, legal and operations.
* Maintain a good working knowledge of the company business practices and standards to ensure an appreciation of the broad scope of knowledge and content required to satisfactorily respond to tenders.
* Involved in peer reviews- to make sure the bids are appropriately compelling and commercially attractive.
* Lead on complex proposals.
* Introduce and implement all necessary proposal procedures and processes and ensure governance of them.
* Deliver compliant, professionally produced proposals within customer defined timeframes.
* Participate in the development and review of proposal strategies and themes.
* Assist in analysing the RFP/bid requirements against the proposal outline to ensure both compliance and responsiveness to the customers issues and needs.
* Build the proposal compliance matrix and track the fulfilment of all requirements.
* Review completed storyboards and proposal sections to ensure requirements are adequately addressed and that customer page limits are not exceeded.
* Conduct regular proposal progress status meetings and maintain the proposal schedule.
* Use their experience and creative skills within the tender production process to ensure that the company is perceived as a quality solutions provider and the number one choice for its existing and prospective customers.
* Maintain good working relationships across the business with Directors, Business Development Directors and Managers, the Bid Team, Operational managers, and Subject matter experts.
* Take ownership of returns to the appropriate customer portal, ensuring documentation is submitted in the required compliant format by the appropriate deadline.
* Manage communications with, and responses of, bid materials into customer systems for regionally led bids.
* Develop a plan and provide project coordination to support the nominated Bid Leads in the project management of the tender process, ensuring compliance with the customers procurement process for the tender.
* Organise work to meet deadlines for completion, including the re-balancing of workload to fit changing priorities.
* Have an excellent working knowledge of the companys current workflow and document production systems which are Microsoft Office based: Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
* Work with the companys Customer Relationship Management (CRM) reporting tool.
* Will be an excellent communicator at all levels.
* Will be able to work well in a team environment including engagement with central teams.
* Be able to think out of the box and seek innovative solutions when supporting on bids.
Key Skills and Experience Required
* Success in writing documentation for successful bids, tenders, proposals or presentations.
* Relevant professional experience in bid writing or highly allied experience.
* Experience in the Security Systems industry is highly advantageous, however all industry experience within the bid writing sector will be considered.
* Fluency in spoken and written English is essential.
* Experience in managing a team.
The successful candidate should have the ability to exercise their role in the pursuit of achievement of the group strategy as a whole. The client has experienced vast success and growth across the business, giving an opportunity for an individual with the drive and ambition to make a name for themselves with a business that supports successful individuals and actively promotes from within.
Send your CV for immediate consideration and interview.
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