Summary
You’ll offer technical and commercial expertise to the Tendering Team, where you can interpret complex customer requirements and work on providing quotations and solution proposals to customers. You’ll also perform bid delivery, assesses commercial risk and work towards maximizing profitability while delivering best in class technical solution.
Wage
£20,000 a year
Additional voluntary benefits, annual salary review and Company performance bonus
Training course
Bid and proposal co-ordinator (level 3)
Hours
Monday to Friday, shifts to be confirmed.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
Possible start date
Monday 8 September
Duration
2 years
Positions available
1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
Day-to-day tasks include (not limited to) the following:
* Produce tenders as necessary according to department loading demands
* Collaborate with the external salesforce to support and execute strategies to establish products and solutions during identification phase
* Ensure that Standard quotation and pricing tools used within the tendering process, are kept continually updated to meet market needs
Where you’ll work
Schneider Electric
123 Jack Lane
Hunslet
Leeds
LS10 1BA
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
RHG CONSULT LTD
Your training course
Bid and proposal co-ordinator (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
* Excellent organisational and time management skills to manage multiple activities simultaneously and prioritise own and others workloads
* Ability to meet defined deadlines and set own milestones to manage workload
* Ability to create and utilise a bid plan timetable and responsibility matrix, supporting virtual team adherence to process
* Contribute to proposal project timetable including the timely collection of data from various parties including sub-contractors, consultants and internal subject experts
* Ability to meet bid submission deadlines according to guidelines / instructions
* Logging and capture of all proposal data in central repository
* Able to maintain a healthy work life balance and understand the reasons why it is important to do so
* Maintain compliance matrices to ensure compliance to all questions Capable of managing multiple projects and deadlines
* Ability to proof read with an eye for detail
* Good creative writing skills and good grammar/authoring
* Collate proposal documents using library/information stores, search engines/corporate directories
* Ability to use a range of tools, methods and search engines, to analyse and assimilate data, such as competitor analysis or customer research
* Good verbal and written communication skills, and ability to communicate professionally with colleagues at all levels of the business
* Liaise with sales/legal/finance teams and other virtual team members as necessary
* The importance of putting the customer first and tailoring bid documents to their needs, wants and requirements
* Work and engage with colleagues and virtual teams, leveraging relationships and networks to support information gathering and writing
* Build relationships with colleagues and subject matter experts across the business, learning the go to people and how to manage their input
* Build rapport and trust
Your training plan
* Training will be online
* Level 3 Bid and Proposal Coordinator qualification
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
* 5 GCSEs to include Mathematics and English (grade B/5 or above)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* Communication skills
* Attention to detail
* Problem solving skills
* Analytical skills
* Team working
* Technical
* Commercial Acumen