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Bid manager — lead public sector proposals

Manchester
Made Tech
Public sector
Posted: 16 February
Offer description

Our aim at Made Tech is to use human-centred technology to improve our society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing, building and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone.


About the role

Reporting to the Head of Bids and Frameworks, you'll manage bids from early presales to proposal submission, working as part of a dynamic, enthusiastic, and well-respected team that has a genuine passion for all things bids. As part of this exceptionally high-performing function, you’ll coordinate your teams to produce winning responses to multimillion-pound tenders, while developing your skills in an environment that champions continuous improvement and learning

You’ll benefit from mentorship by our Senior and Lead Bid Managers, who will support you through increasingly complex opportunities as your experience grows. Beyond day-to-day bid delivery, you’ll contribute to our active bid community of practice, where you’ll find opportunities to practise and refine new skills: from process improvement and presenting, to peer reviewing and cross-team collaboration.

This is an exciting opportunity to join one of Made Tech's most critical functions, where you'll be part of a collaborative team as committed to your development as we are to delivering winning bi


Main responsibilities

* Work closely with our Client Partners and Industry Directors, forming a bid leadership team to drive opportunities forw
* Ensure bids align with our ethos, strengths and customer insight
* Coordinate teams, plan timelines, and hold team members accountable for their contributions to each bid
* Lead answer planning activities, including designing, running and facilitating bid worksh
* ops. Manage bid governance coordination and qualification processes, including opportunity mailbox managem
* ent. Write, review, and provide constructive feedback throughout the bid process, supporting team members in producing high-quality written responses and presentati
* ons. Engage with the commercial components of our submissi
* ons. Take ownership of social value content and integration within bidd
* ing. Maintain and continuously improve bid content librar
* ies. Manage smaller opportunities independently, with support from senior colleagues on more complex b
* ids. Actively contribute to our bid community of practice, participating in bid cop sessions and team meet-
* ups. Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives, applying lessons learnt to enhance our bidding practi


Key measures

* suresWin
* spendBid team and stakeholder fee
* alityClient, peer, and partner fee


feedback

* rocessExperience in a bid or presales environment, in any
* sectorDirect experience of writing and reviewing proposals for new bu
* sinessStrong creative writing skills with an eye for
* detailExperience of coordinating
* teamsAn enthusiastic and effective commun
* icatorEmpathy and the ability to build relationships quickly across teams and across the organis
* ation.A proactive, roll-your-sleeves-up manner, with the ability to take ownership, where problems e
* merge.A passion to learn and develop yourself, alongside our wider pro


Desirable (not essential) skills and experience

* rience Experience in B2B technology services or business process outs
* ourcingExperience working in the UK public
* sectorAn understanding of agile methodologies and digital transformation, including user-centred design prin
* ciples.Experience in planning and delivering successful wo
* rkshopsAn understanding of social value initiatives and an ability to create and articulat

e them. At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Get in touch with our talent team if you’d like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We are hiring for this role directly, so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment

applyingIf you need this job description in another format, or other support in applying, please email talent@made

We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. We’re collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy, healthy, safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences, so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for role

When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a member of our talent team who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. We’ve put together this blog as a resource to share more about reasonable adjustments and some examples of what this could include. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future


candidates


Benefits

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should the

y choose to.

* listed below:30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus
* bank holidaysFlexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental
* leave optionsRemote Working - we offer part time remote working for
* all our staffPaid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and
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