Bid Manager

Insight; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Bid Manager to lead the bid response process for public sector projects. This role involves maximizing resources to ensure high-quality tender submissions, collaborating with various teams, and developing best practices for bid management. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and project management skills, with a proven track record in bid writing and stakeholder engagement. Join a supportive and innovative environment where your contributions can make a significant impact on the company's success.

Benefits

Flexible Working Hours

Health Insurance

Professional Development Opportunities

Employee Discounts

Remote Work Options

Qualifications

• Experience in writing bids and managing tender processes.
• Strong written and spoken English skills required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the bid response process and develop client solutions.
• Manage relationships with external parties to secure work.

Skills

Bid Writing

Project Management

Communication Skills

Microsoft Office Suite

Negotiation Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

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Job title: Bid Manager – Public Sector

About us:

Insight is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud, and service solutions, providing clients the guidance and expertise needed to define, architect, implement and manage technology today while transforming for tomorrow.

The Bid Manager coordinates the bid response process, develops and maintains a knowledge base of standard answers and templates, and identifies ways to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of the bid response process. They identify new business opportunities aligned with Insight’s strategy, particularly in their own region and or area of expertise. They are responsible for developing relationships with external parties in order to advance new opportunities, win submissions, and secure work by value and type to meet company objectives. They also work closely with the Senior Bid Manager to develop client solutions and prepare responses. In addition, the Bid Manager oversees all quality, technical, and commercial aspects in accordance with company procedures, and develops best practice systems and processes and implements them across other regions whilst maintaining and building relations.

Key responsibilities:

• Maximise available resources in order to achieve a high quality and persuasive tender response within agreed timeframes by controlling the qualification of tenders through a bid qualification blueprint.
• Maintain a register of qualified bids including bid directives, wins and losses reports, and ensure that all appropriate documentation is held and controlled.
• Manage the physical production process for bid responses and communicate with the client to ensure documentation (hard and soft) produced is to the client’s expectation and satisfaction.
• Collaborate closely with account teams, consulting teams, and solution sales teammates to ensure accurate, appropriate, and engaging information is included in each proposal.
• Suggest and develop improvements and efficiencies within the tender responses process and continuously deliver high calibre tender responses.

This list is not exhaustive, you will be required to undertake additional responsibilities as reasonably requested by your manager.

Key skills and experience required:

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• High level of written and spoken English
• Fully conversant with Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Excel, and Word)
• Previous experience of writing bids as part of a tender process
• Previous experience coordinating bid teams to deliver proposals, bids, or manage contracts
• Excellent communication and project management skills to manage clients and partners and gather deliverables from a range of internal and external stakeholders within pressurised schedules
• Previous experience working with partners and colleagues from different organisations, countries, and cultures in order to deliver complex work tasks as part of a consortium
• Very strong writing skills, able to construct high quality, complex narratives and convey complex ideas simply and clearly
• Ability to interpret and analyse complex information from a range of sources and present in a succinct and compelling way
• Business acumen to determine if tenders have any level of commercial risk associated with them Demonstrates a solid understanding of international business, sector, key players, and stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to negotiate, influence and generate confidence, trust, and respect
• Ability to think and work pro-actively and creatively under pressure

About Insight:

We believe that by giving you the freedom to think big and empower you to reach your full potential, together we will achieve the best outcomes. Along with excellent benefits and a compelling reward package, we offer the opportunity to work in a supportive environment with a high level of autonomy and creativity - there’s a reason our average employee tenure is over 6 years.

We strive to display our three core values of Hunger, Heart, and Harmony every day. They represent and drive who we are here at Insight and by doing so we are doing amazing things. Insight started in a garage in 1988 and it is through harnessing our three core values that two brothers, Eric and Tim Crown, steered Insight to the Fortune 500 company it is today. We are now a Global IT Services and Solutions business, passionate about helping customers and the real people who sit behind them.

Insight is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to achieving diversity and equality within our organisation. We seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage you to apply.

We will endeavour to contact you within five business days, should we feel your profile is a good match for this role. If you do not hear from us within this timeframe, please presume that on this occasion, your application was not successful.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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