Bid Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Bid Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Review competitor strategies and materials to ensure the business’s offering is consistently amongst ‘best in class’;
- Understand and resolve complex technical, strategic and business issues;
- Happy to travel within the UK to customer sites as required;
- Write report, proof read, check for consistency and suggest areas of improvement;
- Maintain a central library database of useful report content and materials archive;
- Actively seeking tender opportunities for both public and private sector work;
- Providing support and content input to other internal departments in support of non-bid related client responses;
- Ensure timely delivery of compliant and commercially sound bids;
- Manage the creation of the bid deliverables and ensuring review and governance, leading to the creation of a high quality proposal;
- Supervising 1 to 3 senior to assistant bid coordinators;
- Develop and manage direct reports;
- Maintain a central repository (knowledge base) of bid artefacts and including case studies and proposal templates;
- Matrix Management of internal resources to ensure all areas of the bid are correctly represented e.g. Commercial, Safety & Quality, Finance, HR;
- Liaise with relevant departments to arrange meetings, demo’s and site visits;
- Form relationships with customers to develop a clear understanding of their requirements.
Requirements:
- Commercial and strategic in approach;
- Team management;
- Significant experience in bids or management of bids;
- Ideally degree educated or similar;
- Leadership and influencing skills;
- A degree in marketing, communications or related field, from a reputable institution;
- A target-driven approach;
- Customer centric in approach, with the ability to recognise potential opportunities in invitations to tender;
- Ideally a track-record in insurance / financial services or construction would be an advantage;
- Strong team planning and organisation skills;
- Previous experience of managing bid services within the engineering and construction sector;
- Maintain understanding of the company’s core capabilities;
- The ability to directly successfully manage a bid team and to drive solutions to successful conclusion;
- Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills with written presentation and report writing skills;
- Excellent time management skills.