Bid Manager - New Works, United Kingdom - Cactus Search

Cactus Search

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New Works, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are recruiting for a Bid Manager who will be responsible for supporting the growth of our clients business within the B2B market by coordinating and producing bid responses for C&I new and renewal tenders.

The role will be critical to supporting thecommercial sales team to succeed in spearheading its ambitious growth targets in the C&I Market and will enable the team to focus on a customers and external engagement.

As well as managing bid responses there is also a key requirement to build a longer-term bid response capability that allows the business to be as prepared and efficient as possible with regards to bid response activity.

Duties:

Develop, lead and produce bid winning strategies.
Writing and editing proposals and collaborate with team members to ensure bid security.
Take full ownership of co-ordinating the planning process across all tender bids to ensure there is an ongoing visible plan to deliver high quality bid responses by the required deadline.
Take a project management approach to managing each step of the bid response process, engaging all relevant stakeholders and areas of the business to ensure maximum success in delivering bid winning proposals.
Lead regular internal tender pipeline sessions from sales and commercial perspective to drive business engagement and ensure there is an integrated approach to SEUK's bid response process.
Work closely with sales BDM's, product managers, commercial teams, legal and compliance to ensure bid responses are internally joint up and produced to the highest level of quality.
Communicating with external partners and customers where required to support the progress of the bid response production.
Attending meetings in support of the Sales BDM to build engagement with larger customers and/or energy Brokers to support and hone bid response success.

Experience:

Bid Writing Qualifications/Experience
Technical Knowledge:

You'll have experience of high spec bid management and bid writing in the UK C&I energy space covering flexible commodity products and complex solutions, including the typical types of systems that support these products.

You'll alsohave strong excel skills and report management capabilities.

Interpersonal skills:

Excellent communicator, both written and verbal; Ability to develop strong professional relationships, both internally and externally, including ability to interact with brokers, partners, customers and internal stakeholders.