Bid Manager

Description:

The Bid Manager will have a strong writing focus, developing technical and business content for bids and prequalification proposals and also support the bid team with the bid pipeline by managing their own bids from start to finish. The role requires writing, reviewing, and editing content, working with bid team members to produce written bid responses and presentation collateral in line with customer deadlines. The Bid Manager will be an integral part of our business strategy and development team directing our growth. It also requires strong bid management skills when owning a bid lifecycle from start to finish.

This is a blended Bid Manager role and includes opportunities to improve daily departmental functions, including – organising IT filing systems, assisting with commercial tasks of current projects, preparation of standard documentation and supporting in departmental meetings and contract reviews.

The role would ideally suit an ambitious graduate with 3-5 years experience.

Responsibilities:

• Review and understand the bid approach and contribute to evolving it

• Produce compelling bid material in line with the messaging to the customer

• Discuss an approach to a bid or specific question with the Head of Service and produce the agreed response for review, uplift and sign off in areas such as value propositions, methodologies, delivery approaches etc.

• Write effective, concise and compelling content while working towards multiple deadlines

• Work as a team to get accurate, high-quality information from all bid stakeholders in order to produce a comprehensive and cohesive bid is essential

• Attention to detail and the ability to extract and summarise bid documents

• Manage standalone bids (RFT’S/PQQ’s etc) of varying scales as required from start to finish, which will require excellent managerial skills

• Liaise with the Marketing team on RFT’s / PQQ’s to make sure company details are up to date and accurate.

• Design compelling visual content in line with Jones brand guidelines with graphics experience

• A thought leader in terms of the bid process and bid material and continually look to evolve our bid messaging and approaches.

• Scheduling meetings and managing department’s contract and project filing structure

• Assisting in commercial tasks including drafting payment applications and project variations

• Co-ordinating team communications

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

• Experience of technical and business writing essential within a professional bid environment (3 years+)

• High attention to detail with an excellent writing ability

• Deadline driven with effective time management skills

• Ability to multitask and prioritise workload

• Can demonstrate effective bid writing skills

• Design skills and ability to create compelling bid contributions

• Has an innovative approach – matching creativity with compliance

• Experience in end-to-end bid management

• Experience of design work and design packages to create visually compelling bid content and submissions desirable

• Background in writing for the Consultancy sector

• Project management methods/ knowledge desirable.