Bid Excellence Manager

DHL Supply Chain; Rugby; Remote; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

25 days annual leave

Discretionary bonus

Flexible working

Job summary

DHL Supply Chain is seeking a Bid Excellence Manager to lead high-quality bid responses for UK&I opportunities. You will work with Sales and Central functions to craft a clear strategy, compelling value proposition, and compliant delivery process.

The role involves coordinating bid submissions, coaching stakeholders, and contributing to bid capability across the business. Remote with regular travel to Rugby and UK-wide locations.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex bids, proposals and strategic pursuits across private and public sectors.
• Experience in supply chain or logistics bid contexts is advantageous.
• Strong proposal writing, editing and storytelling capabilities.
• Ability to manage and create bids with key skillsets from Design, Operations and Finance.
• Familiarity with bid tools and RF/ RFI databases, plus evolution of content.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate high-quality bid submissions to support growth strategy.
• Provide bid governance, best-practice tools and content management insights.
• Attend early capture, pursuit stages and pre-tender meetings to influence bid positions.
• Improve bid quality, win rate and customer experience across UK&I.
• Manage bid lifecycles: bid writing, project management and value positioning.
• Develop and upskill bid-experts within the organisation.

Skills

Bid management

Proposal writing

Stakeholder coaching

Storytelling

Communication skills

Tools

MS Office

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Adobe

Job description

Grade: RCS K
Contract Type: Permanent (Full-Time)
Location: Remote but with regular travel to Rugby plus other locations UK wide.

Think you know DHL? Think again! We're not just about delivering parcels. DHL Supply Chain is the world's leading logistics company, and our Bid team is at the forefront of driving growth and innovation.

We're seeking a highly motivated and results-oriented Bid Excellence Manager to join our team, responsible for leading the development of high-quality, customer-centric bid responses for priority UK&I opportunities. Working with Sales and Central functions, the bid excellence manager ensures each proposal has a clear strategy, compelling value proposition, strong storyline and compliant delivery process.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• In this business-critical role you will directly support delivery of our growth strategy by leading and coordinating high-quality bid submissions, supporting strategic customer renewals, and providing specialist bid expertise across the business.
• Support both opportunity-specific bid delivery and the wider development of DHL Supply Chain's bid capability through best-practice tools, content management, stakeholder coaching and bid governance.
• Working on bids from early capture and pursuit stages through to submission; plus attending and facilitating pre-tender meetings with key stakeholders to influence the bid position.
• You will contribute to improving bid quality, win performance and customer experience across the UK&I business.
• This role incorporates the three main elements of Bid lifecycles including Bid Writing; Internal project management; and Value position.
• Responsibilities outside of a typical Bid Management role that gives individuals an opportunity not just to apply best practice but to develop and upskill bid experts within the organisation.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Experience of managing complex bids, proposal and strategic pursuits and both private and public sector
• Experience of Supply Chain would be advantageous.
• Strong proposal writing, editing and storytelling capabilities.
• Experience in managing and creating bids, ideally gained within the Supply Chain or Logistics industry with or evidence of the key skillsets required attained through similar roles
• An understanding of a self-service bid tool and RFI database with the ability to manage and progress the evolution of both.
• Understanding of key functions - Solution Design, Operations and Finance in logistics - desirable.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation communication skills, and a proficient user of Microsoft Office, with advanced knowledge of Word, PowerPoint, ADOBE and Excel

WHY JOIN US?

• Private Medical Insurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days
• Discretionary bonus based on performance
• We're happy to talk about flexible working - just ask about alternative patterns
• Generous pension with up to 8% employer contribution
• Free confidential 24/7 GP consultations
• Hundreds of retail and lifestyle discounts
• Affordable loans, savings schemes and free mortgage advice
• Visit https://careers.dhl.com/global/en/working-at-dhl-supply-chain to learn more

WHO WE ARE

We're the global leaders in supply chain management with 188,000 people in over 50 countries. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more.

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