Bid Manager

Bid Manager

Facilities Management Bid Manager

We are recruiting for a Bid Manger on a 12 month fixed term contract. The role will be to work from home with occasional travel to Leeds Birmingham and London regions.

Summary:

• Bid Manager
• Salary: Competitive salary with car allowance and Bonus
• 12 month fixed term contract
• Facilities Management

The role of Bid Manager is to provide high quality bid management services for bids of medium to high value and complexity (between £8m and £100m) within multiple FM services contracts across private and public sector facilities management contracts

This role will have a high degree of interaction and close working with other members of the business development team, subject matter experts from within and wider stakeholders. The broad intention is that other business development team members will act as the Bid Lead allowing the Bid Manager (this role) to focus on ensuring a timely completion and submission of a successful bid.

Duties Include:

• Work closely with the Sales lead to ensure customer requirements are translated into our overall bid strategy to form a winning proposal
• Responsibility for the quality of all aspects of the bid, including written responses and presentations, ensuring written work is clear, concise and compelling
• Manage and maintain essential bid documentation including; solution summary, risk/issues/opportunities register, action log, team information, governance information, competitor analysis, customer stakeholder management, clarification question log
• Ensure effective communication is maintained across the bid team and relevant business stakeholders at all times
• Setting clear direction and maintaining momentum within the bid team to achieve the desired outcome for each stage of the process, including running regular bid calls, hosting workshops, capturing and driving progress on all actions and actively working to remove roadblocks
• Escalation and Jeopardy Management when appropriate
• Acting in a supporting role as required for other bids
• Supporting the smooth hand over to mobilisation and operational teams
• Ensuring that a lessons learned exercise is completed on all bids
• Development and enhancement of the ODF; our bid process & toolkit
• Acting as an ambassador for the Bid Management team, developing relationships with wider key stakeholders, and improving the overall professional standing of the team

Qualifications/Requirements

• 3+ years working within a bid management role
• The UK private sector bidding environment (and knowledge of UK public sector bidding environment)
• Creating and submitting winning bid solutions within the facilities management sector
• The development of all aspects of a bid proposals
• Experienced in  written submission, commercial proposals, presentations and necessary governance, and some knowledge of the cost development process.