Bid Manager
Our successful Engineering client, with customers in the defence, public and charity sectors, is looking for an experienced Bid Manager to identify sales opportunities and submit suitable bids to increase revenue and business pipeline. The Bid Manager (who may have previously worked as a Proposals Engineer or Internal Sales Manager) will have a technical understanding of engineering projects to enable them to support the Head of Sales in the preparation and delivery of bids.
Job Responsibilities
* Support all bid activities and act as the focal point within the Sales Team for routine bid activity, including monitoring ports, creating comprehensive bids, communicating with the design, procurement and production teams to create the bids, and maintaining contact with potential customers.
* Complete associated project planning and obtain job costings from colleagues.
* Collate reporting information on status (progress, performance, quality, cost, schedule, etc.) of major project bids for internal reviews.
* Provide the Head of Sales with regular reports of programme/project bid risks, issues, successes, and failures.
* Maintain, update, communicate, and ensure compliance with Defence bid/capture processes.
* Daily scan Public Procurement portals for new business opportunities.
Skills Required
* Experience of sales, bidding and project management processes.
* Good understanding of contracts and commercial awareness, ideally gained with the defence or public sectors.
* Excellent communication skills, external and internally.
* The ability to manage multiple sales pipelines and projects, using MS Project.
* Competent user of Microsoft Office suite of software (specifically Word, Powerpoint and Excel, Project).
Associated Benefits
* Pension
* 23 Days holiday pro rata + Bank holidays
* Group Life Cover
Working Hours
40 hour week, Mon‑Thur 8-5, Fri 8-12
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