Warrington, United Kingdom | Posted on 10/11/2023
GovData Ltd are a fast-growing Procurement Specialists and Bid Management Firm supporting British Firms by assisting them onto Government Frameworks. We are the world’s leading experts in the business of Government and the Public Sector.
Working for GovData is the opportunity to work for the ultimate bid function. We are not your average firm; we go above and beyond for our customers striving to achieve a 100% success rate in everything we do.
We are currently at an exciting stage in our growth strategy meaning any successful applicants will be joining at a very exciting time.
Our Mission Statement is to Make Britain Great Again!
Job Description
GovData Ltd are a tech disruptor and innovator, using AI and Machine Learning to support Britain’s best businesses to win Government and Public Sector contracts. We aspire to help those companies win, grow, and then export, helping to put the Great Back into Britain, a major challenge requiring huge growth, great skills, and amazing people who are the very best in their chosen career field. Now, after an 8-figure investment round, we are opening a recruitment round to deal with our additional skills and operational needs.
We are currently at an exciting stage in our growth strategy, meaning any successful applicants couldn’t be joining at a better time. We are looking for an experienced Bid Manager to join our team at our HQ in Warrington.
You will be working Monday to Friday from 9am until 5:30pm.
Job role:
Working within the Delivery function, the Bid Manager of UK Frameworks is responsible for managing the delivery of bid submissions in response to customer engagements necessitating the successful listing of a client onto Public Sector Frameworks as well as specific open tender responses.
As Bid Manager, you will assemble a bid team with the relevant service / product / business knowledge required to prepare a winning bid, whilst taking ownership of the end-to-end bid process. We support multiple clients in a frameworks submission, covering all high growth aspects of each category of spend to ensure we can support those clients to then win call off contracts let under said framework.
You will show exceptional self-learning ability to get to grips with complex subject matters, disparate information sources and be able to bring them together in a delivery process to ensure that our internal subject matter expertise remains at the very heart of our success in delivering knowledge transfer and support to those who do not understand public procurement processes, or how the evaluation is driven from within the marketplace rather than from a requirement of knowledge within their industry.
Responsibilities include the introduction and implementation of all necessary bid procedures, governance, and processes. This is a highly networked role that requires an ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines. It requires strong people management and commercial skills.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate capability across all areas, with the resilience, flexibility and determination to truly make a difference using strong knowledge capture and transfer to your team, commercial insights, communicate where necessary with the Procurement functions at Framework and at end user level to better prepare for the delivery phase.
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 GovData and 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.
Requirements
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
Salary of up to £55,000
Fun work environment and office, which includes a dog creche, games room and a diner
Personal and career growth
Weekly training to develop your skills
Company share scheme with annual review of options
Training Academy & Accredited Training with Harvard Business School-Law Division
Fantastic progressive opportunities for travel globally supporting Business Growth
Regular A* social events, concerts, sports events and corporate events globally
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