Bid Manager

Softcat; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Bid Manager to join their high-performing Bid Centre team. This role involves crafting compelling bid responses and managing the bid process to support business growth. You'll collaborate with various stakeholders, ensuring proposals align with company standards. With a focus on flexibility, this position offers hybrid working options, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life. If you're passionate about driving success through technology and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing bids within the technology sector is desirable.
• Understanding of all key areas of Bid Management.

Responsibilities

• Formulating and creating quality bid and tender responses.
• Coordinating multiple proposals and working with internal stakeholders.

Skills

Bid Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Proposal Writing

Project Management

Education

APMP/PRINCE2 Qualification

Experience in Technology Sector

Job description

Softcat Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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Would you like to be part of a team that enables business growth?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Join our Bid Centre Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join Softcat's high performing Bid Centre. We are responsible for producing tailored propositions targeted at Softcat's customers and prospects. The Bid Centre supports our sales teams with large volumes of professional, differentiated, and compellingly written content.

Success. The Softcat Way.

It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

Taking ownership of our Bid Process

The individual will be taking responsibility for collating relevant information, assisting with the production of the tender documents, and managing resources to meet submission and specification requirements. This is a 12 month FTC covering maternity cover.

As a Bid manager, you'll be responsible for:

• Formulating and creating quality and compelling bid and tender responses
• Ensuring all proposals are aligned with Softcat's guidelines and bid management standards
• Coordinating multiple Proposals/bids and working with a variety of dynamic internal stakeholders
• Tracking and reporting on tender outcomes
• Working with the Bid Centre on team projects and enriching the bid library continually for the wider company use
  
  
  

We'd love you to have

• Previous experience in managing bids within the technology sector is desirable
• Managing bids as per best practice and have an understanding of all key areas of Bid Management
• APMP/PRINCE2 qualification is desirable
• Ability to work independently and build rapport quickly with both internal and external stakeholders
  
  
  

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs
  
  
  

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Business Development

• Industries

  Computer Hardware Manufacturing, Software Development, and IT Services and IT Consulting

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