Bid Manager

Realex Payments; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Realex Payments is seeking an experienced Bid Manager to join our Enterprise Sales Enablement team in Westminster. You will lead complex RFIs and RFPs, coordinating cross-functional experts to deliver compelling, compliant proposals that position Worldpay as the partner of choice.

You will manage timelines, drive win themes, and ensure consistency across submissions while maintaining high-quality, client-focused content. Strong English writing and stakeholder management are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and managing complex enterprise proposals.
• Experience managing full proposal lifecycle, from qualification to submission.
• Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex RFIs, RFPs, and strategic proposal efforts from kickoff through final submission.
• Build and manage the proposal plan, timelines, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with Sales, Legal, Pricing, and other SMEs to develop accurate responses.
• Drive stakeholder accountability and ensure high-quality material and deadlines.
• Develop win themes and executive summaries tailored to clients.
• Write, edit, and refine responses for clear, persuasive content.

Skills

Proposal management

Stakeholder management

Strong writing

Storytelling

English communication

Project coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Loopio

Salesforce

Microsoft 365

Job description

Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We're looking for an experienced Bid Manager to join our ever-evolving Enterprise Sales Enablement team and help lead strategic opportunities, shape compelling responses, and win enterprise business.

What you'll own

• Independently lead complex RFIs, RFPs, and other strategic proposal efforts from qualification and kickoff through response strategy, stakeholder coordination, reviews, production, and final submission.
• Build and manage the proposal plan, including the response timeline, compliance requirements, work assignments, review milestones, dependencies, risks, and submission requirements.
• Partner with Sales, Commercial, Solutions Consulting, Legal, Pricing, Product, Information Security, Compliance, Operations, and other subject matter experts to develop accurate, complete, and differentiated responses.
• Drive stakeholder accountability throughout the bid, ensuring contributors understand what is required, provide high-quality material, and meet agreed deadlines.
• Develop win themes, key messages, executive summaries, and tailored proposal content that clearly articulates the Worldpay value proposition and positions Worldpay as the partner of choice.
• Write, edit, and refine responses so complex technical, operational, security, legal, and commercial information is clear, persuasive, client-focused, and consistent across the full submission.
• Interpret tender instructions and complex compliance requirements, maintain a clear compliance view, and ensure all questions, attachments, approvals, and deliverables are addressed before submission.
• Lead kickoffs, working sessions, status calls, and structured reviews, escalating gaps, missed commitments, and decisions that may affect proposal quality or timely delivery.
• Ensure proposals follow Worldpay's tone of voice, copy guidelines, brand standards, and agreed response strategy while remaining clearly tailored to the prospective or existing client.
• Capture lessons learned, reusable content, and process improvements from completed pursuits to strengthen future bids and help the Enterprise RFP Team work more effectively.
• 5+ years of experience developing and managing successful proposals, with direct responsibility for complex enterprise bids through final submission.
• Proven experience managing the full proposal lifecycle, including qualification, compliance management, response planning, stakeholder engagement, proposal writing, reviews, production, and submission.
• Hands-on experience with Loopio or comparable proposal management software, with the ability to use the platform to manage assignments, collaborate on responses, track progress, and support proposal delivery.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to convert complex subject matter into clear, persuasive, customer-facing content.
• Experience interpreting large corporate tenders containing multiple and complex instructions, schedules, attachments, and compliance requirements.
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills, with the determination to coordinate cross-functional teams, influence without direct authority, and hold contributors to agreed deliverables and timelines.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to connect customer priorities, evaluation criteria, competitive context, and Worldpay's products, roadmap, mission, and values into a differentiated proposal.
• Professional-level written and spoken English, with excellent communication skills for executive, management, technical, and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent organization, problem-solving, and time-management skills, including the ability to manage multiple deadlines, adapt quickly, and maintain quality under pressure.
• A self-motivated, detail-oriented approach and a commitment to collaboration, accuracy, accountability, and high-quality outcomes.

It's a bonus if you have

• Experience managing strategic enterprise RFPs in payments, fintech, financial services, SaaS, or another complex B2B environment.
• Knowledge of payment processing, information security, compliance, regulatory, legal, pricing, or operational topics commonly addressed in enterprise proposals.
• Experience developing win themes and discriminators for Financial Services or Payments proposals.
• Experience with Salesforce and Microsoft collaboration tools.
• 'win as one team' mindset, building inclusive partnerships across functions, sharing knowledge openly, and staying determined to achieve the best outcome for the client and the business.

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We're curious and innovative - always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it's our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.