Bid Manager

We are looking to appoint a high calibre Bid Manager to one of the UK’s leading marketing services companys.

Key roles and responsibilities pertaining to this role will include:

To be responsible for the tender response function from qualification through to pitching stage.
Responsible for bid writing and managing company bid teams to gather responses
To continually appraise the content of the bid library to keep material current, compelling and catalogued.
To report on bid activity levels and results for the Sales & Marketing and Connect RTMs (internal meetings).
To maintain membership of tender subscription services.
To keep up-to-date with public sector procurement legislation and advise the business as necessary.
To keep abreast of company proposition and services, along with market and competitor developments.
To assist in pitches with both material, and where appropriate being on the presentation team.
Skills required:

Excellent written communication skills
Analytical with ability to shape a solution to meet clients’ dilemmas
Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain good relationships across the Group, and with prospective clients
Very proficient in MS Office especially Word (ability in InDesign is desirable)
Excellent time management skills to manage bids simultaneously to deadlines
Flexible approach to workload to manage peaks and troughs in bid pipeline and provide ad hoc support in other areas as required
Good understanding of company proposition and competitor awareness to develop winning solutions

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This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment – Greg Nelson – greg@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head of Print recruitment–Neil Pearson – neil@harrison-scott.co.uk

Head Paper recruitment – Gary Young – gary@harrison-scott.co.uk

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies –

George Thompson – george@harrison-scott.co.uk

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.