Remote Bid Manager

Summary

Join us and make a difference in the world! We are seeking an experienced Bid Manager to manage bids for our public sector business, working closely with account managers and pre-sales teams to produce excellent quality bids.

Requirements

• Knowledge of public sector
• Excellent standard of written English
• Experience of coordinating teams of people
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight timescales
• Ability to multi-task, working on several projects at any given time
• Ability to assimilate sales strategies and offerings to market
• Experience of leading workshops to establish win themes
• Proactive, highly motivated with an enthusiasm to meet customer requirements
• Experience of the OJEU procurement process

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple concurrent bids within the NEC bid process, ensuring all our bid documents are of a consistently high standard and are consistent, compelling and compliant, meeting all legal, commercial and technical requirements
• Lead bid teams, developing win themes, analysing competitive information and ensuring the win themes are articulated in the bid
• Co-ordinate bid reviews to the appropriate level, ensuring all bids are comprehensively reviewed at each stage in the process
• Identify and mitigate risk, ensuring a risk register is produced for submission to Senior Management
• Managing the bid process by working with the account managers in the identification and formation of bid teams, assigning responsibilities and timescales for each element of the required response
• Ensuring all bids have a formal kick off meeting, with responsibilities and timescales documented and agreed and to ensure the sales messages and approach are understood by all members of the team
• Leading win theme and shaping sessions for each bid, ensuring these are communicated throughout the NEC proposition
• Progress chasing the input to bids, escalating issues where appropriate
• Adding value to bids by improving the quality of the written response, ensuring the appropriate sales messages are contained therein, the bid is complete and meets all legal, commercial and technical requirements
• Arranging team reviews for all major opportunities, ensuring each team meets the required timescales and produces the appropriate standard of information for the others to review
• Recording the status of bids at all stages in the bid process
• Briefing the Bid Support Administrators on the requirements for each bid, ensuring bids are complete, properly formatted and all Appendices and Supplementary Information are included
• Constantly monitor and assess the NEC Bid Process, identifying areas for improvement in terms of quality, time and effort. Collating feedback from clients and prospects on the quality and applicability of bids submitted, identifying areas of strength and weakness and feeding this information back to the Head of Bid Management and Frameworks in order to further improve the quality of our bids
• Be a recognised expert in the bid process, NEC offerings to market, strategy and direction and internal processes and procedures
• Providing constructive feedback to the more junior members of the team on the quality of their work by reviewing their bids prior to submission
• Contributing to the production of high quality Expressions of Interest and Pre-Tender Questionnaires by responding to strategic questions where required
• To contribute to a library of NEC corporate information by authoring reusable content for inclusion in bids, including the production of standard proposals for repeatable product or service sales

Benefits

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs