Job Description
We are keen to hire a Bid Manager to work with our Bids and Enablement Team (currently 14 people) to support and develop our already strong Bid/Commercial function within Version 1. This fast-paced role will be part of a successful, growing team focused on winning opportunities with current and potential customers across UK, Ireland and Northern Ireland. This is an exciting role for someone who wants to develop their career learning how to sell and deliver technology solutions.
Responsibilities
1. Taking ownership of the end to end bid process from RFI/PQQ stages through to Tender Submission and Presentation
2. Work towards building an efficient bid department with best practice processes and initiatives
3. Provide input to the pre-qualification process to ensure all customer sales opportunities and bids are fully qualified and identified as winnable
4. Every bid, you will work with a team Version 1 technical / project experts to guide them to create strong responses that align to bid and customer requirements
5. Produce and maintain bid brief and ensure win strategy is reflected in answer
6. Identify resource requirements
7. Act as a single point of customer contact for bid team and maintain Bid Site/Documentation
8. Drive commercial review approvals process and edit contributions to bid
9. Monitor and report bid and production costs
10. Produce post bid review and handover documentation
11. Preparation of documentation, tender responses, case studies and CVs
Qualifications
You will have:
12. Ability to work on multiple projects at one time adhering to tight deadlines
13. Strong written skills with attention to detail and a focus on consistent quality
14. Strong time management with effective prioritisation of tasks, recognising and flagging issues outside area of own expertise
15. Influencing skills: Ability to get people at multiple levels to deliver what you need on time and with high quality, even though they won’t report to you will be critical to the success of the role.
16. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage at all levels across an organisation internally and externally
17. Experience of building good relationships with colleagues, customers and partners