Bid Manager

Bid Manager
£50k
Hybrid role - 3 days in the office
Based in Dartford
Available immediately
Excellent benefits

My client based in Dartford has an immediate vacancy for an experienced Bid Manager. You will have a proven track record of coordinating bid submissions and delivering exceptional bid presentations. You must have experience of CRM systems and use of InDesign. You will have previous experience working alone or as part of a tem to produce bids, tenders, PQQ and SQ.

Key responsibilities are as follows;

• Effective liaison and co-ordination with internal teams to develop, write and deliver high quality, successful, submissions and bids.
• Supporting the Directors in the production of key bids: to include scheduling bid activities and ensuring the internal bid process, deadlines and forms have been adhered to.
• Developing a suite of draft response to generic questions.
• Supporting the Director in creating project case studies
• Reviewing draft bids, formatting of final submission.
• Managing daily electronic tender alerts, scanning portals and various sources to find and filter relevant opportunities for consideration.
• Management of the company's activities on procurement portals e.g. understanding procedures, upload of bids, provision of company information and ensuring they are kept updated.
• Completing and submitting pre-qualification questionnaires.
• Managing a shared bid calendar keeping note of all relevant submission/decision dates and ensuring that all deadlines are kept to/decisions are chased up accordingly.
• Using initiative to generate new opportunities for business.

The ideal candidate will have:

- Excellent MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint skills and document formatting ability.
- Strong understanding of work winning, the bid process and bid document production process.
- Excellent written and oral communication & presentational skills.
- Highly organised and able to balance and prioritise numerous concurrent tasks.
- Skilled at managing the flow of information & documents across the team (great coordination skills)
- Experience in managing portals and filtering relevant new opportunities.
- High level of attention to detail.
- Ability to deliver to deadlines and put in the extra work when required in order to submit on time
- Industry knowledge/experience.

If you are interested in this role and would like to find out more information please do not hesitate to contact me.