Job description
Job type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Friars House, Coventry / Hybrid
Reports To: Business Development Director
JOB PURPOSE
The Bid Manager role will be responsible for the overall reporting and ownership of sales activity including:
Pipeline coverage
Bid timeline and associated resourcing
Market scanning
Lead generation support
Co-ordination of resources required for successful bidding
Liaison with 3rd party providers as required
The role will be responsible for supporting the end-to-end bid process including initial opportunity identification, ensuring effective cross-team communications. The role will compile required bid / tender documents/ presentations, coordinating activities around opportunity pursuit and submit these on the portal, ensuring full compliance with specification / commissioner requirements. The role will ensure all deadlines and timelines are adhered to by organising all parties involved.
CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES
Stakeholder Management
Discussing business and project requirements with Clients and business
Developing strong internal department relationships to facilitate the optimum delivery of projects
Arranging, leading and participating in regular and ad-hoc meetings with internal staff and external clients
Finance
Work closely with the Accounts team, to ensure the most effective use of We Are Group’s resources and that all costs are modelled as part of the bid responses
Business Development
Ownership of bid timetable and co-ordination of resources
Creating / coordinating bid specific project plans to ensure all deadlines are adhered to
Organising / coordinating regular bid catchups / gating meetings
Supporting the team to produce comprehensive, high-quality bid proposals by e.g., coordinating requests for information, sourcing the right supporting documents, supporting with editing / developing bid responses / implementation plans/ version control
Completing company specific responses to Selection Questionnaires or portal registrations
Compiling all the key bid documents / presentations needed for submission
Transferring bid responses into final templates
Coordinating the upload / submission of all bid proposals
Managing tender portals (e.g., monitoring communications ) on behalf of We Are Group