Senior Bid Manager

Job Description

Senior Bid Manager
Nottingham (or any of the other 8 offices in the UK)
Hybrid, 70K

A very exciting opportunity has arisen to join a highly-reputable top 50 law firm as a Senior Bids Manager to work within the National Tenders and Bids team that has an impressive win rate.

This position has high-level exposure to the partnership, reporting to the Associate Director who heads the Bids team . This role will have a key focus across all sectors, service lines and offices and would also suit a qualified lawyer seeking to move into a bid manager role.

The ideal candidate is from a legal background, has extensive experience drafting bid responses in both private and public sectors and has management level experience.

The role could be based in any of the 8 UK offices and offers hybrid flexibility of only one or two days per week required in the office. However, frequent travel to Nottingham is required.

Key responsibilities:

Working collaboratively, identifying and logging opportunities, bid planning, “Bid no Bid” scoping, drafting SQ, RfP, ITT and similar responses
Capable of leading on and drafting all aspects of bid responses
Able to coach teams in rehearsing for presentations and interviews and lead internal and external debriefs
Use project management skills to ensure well-planned, organised and controlled processes to drive bids forward.
Formulating best practice on win strategy for each bid, including consideration of commercial strategies and clearly articulating the reasons for adopting those strategies
Managing meetings confidently, inspiring enthusiasm and support
Working with lawyers to formulate models for an attractive and profitable offer
A focus on continual improvement of the quality of submissions