Bid Manager

Bid Manager
Based in Billericay
Monday - Friday
0800-1700
45-55K depending on experience

Responsibilities:

• Lead the relationship with client representatives in accordance with the tender instructions and tender strategy.
• Establish the tender strategy for the success of the tender, considering the strength and weaknesses of the of the business to maximise the probability of winning the tender.
• Fully understand the business capabilities and resources to prepare tender submissions of excellent quality considering the client requirements and expectations.
• Coordinate and give close guidance to the tender teams (design, construction, planning, submission, estimation, commercial, legal, reviewers, etc) to insure full coordination, motivation, efficiency and excellent outcome.
• Fully understand and follow all the business procedures including governance.
• Coordinate and prepared all internal and external meetings (within the business, with partners and with clients).
• Ensure proper checking of all deliverables and internal documents in accordance with good practice, procedures and governance.
• Follow all the Board decisions as well as indications and guidance from the line Manager (Tendering Director) Liaise with other teams in the business as necessary in other to fulfil their responsibilities, use lessons learned, use experience from other projects and departments and handover successful tenders to the delivery team.
• Full understanding of the project technical and commercial risks, completing this understanding with the inputs from the team subject matter experts.
• To promote company values in all dealings with other employees, clients, subcontractors and other external contacts Support on agreeing commercial arrangements with Joint Venture partners

Key Skills:

• Self-motivated Ability to manage and motivate multi-disciplinary and diverse teams Ability to establish and follow tender programmes Team player Responsive to meet tender deadlines Experience Managing bid and estimating teams Experience understanding scoring criteria an establishing a strategy to maximise scoring.
• Presentation skills (written and verbal) Ability to work under pressure and multitasking Experience of main stream Social Housing refurbishment market

Desirable Skills:

Experience leading Bid and Estimating functions