Senior Bid Manager

Senior Bid Manager
£46,000 – £51,000 + Up to 20% Bonus +Excellent Benefits
Remote with 1 day per month in Bristol office

The Company:
Our client is a leader in their field, they deliver training courses and apprenticeships to people across the UK every day, they are innovative, energetic and places real emphasis on providing a great service to clients and learners. They have a superb working environment and genuinely value their people evidenced by staff longevity.

The Job:
As a Senior Bid Manager, you will report into the Partnership Development Director. This exciting role will require you to be responsible for identifying and writing successful bids and tenders (using AutogenAI) for a variety of organisations across various sectors including Care, Retail, Hospitality, Fitness, Finance and Business. The majority of these will be aimed at the apprenticeship market, you will play a key role in contributing to the delivery of the company’s growth plans by winning new business through engaging and compelling bid writing.

Day to day responsibilities:
Responsible for the submission of expressions of interest, pre qualifications questionnaires and tenders.
Identify and report on new tender opportunities.
Manage registrations/subscriptions and administration of tender portals ensuring that all company information is accurate and invitations to tender/correspondence is promptly viewed and actioned.
Provision of expert writing and editing bids to a high quality and bespoke to target audiences.
Developing innovatively written bids in line with clients published guidelines.
Working to pre-imposed and on occasion conflicting priorities regarding the ability to prioritise work according to business need.
Building strong relationships with key colleagues across business functions to enable you to respond to challenging queries and ensure a seamless approach to the delivery of content and evidence for bids.
Developing proposal structures and edit/re-work content to achieve high quality, compliance and competitiveness.
Developing and managing a content library, uploading all new bid content for future reference.
Developing high calibre case studies and presentations which echo the requirements of the bid.
Providing bid management support for localised bids.
Networking, managing and developing relationships with key external stakeholders on an on-going basis, to gain market intelligence and secure opportunities that contribute to client acquisition.

The Person:
Must have previous experience and success in writing and winning bids for various funding streams (i.e. ESFA, DWP, ESF, MoJ, NHS).
Timely and efficient approach to ensure deadlines are met during tender process,
Monitoring all portals daily to make sure nothing is missed and any information is captured.
Leading bid compilation, initial and final document review, sign-off and submission.

The Benefits:

Our client offers great benefits, reward and recognition and wellbeing package which includes some of the following: 25 days holiday (business closes at Christmas), Contributory pension (company matched), Life Insurance, Discounts on courses (including your family and friends), Access to a comprehensive reward, recognition and wellbeing platform, Professional Development; A career pathway programme to support your personal and professional development.