Bid Manager

Luxoft; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology consulting firm in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Bid Manager to lead the bid management cycle within the GrowthX team. Responsibilities include managing multiple bids, ensuring high-quality proposal outputs, and coordinating across teams. The ideal candidate is a process-oriented team player with strong project management skills and a perfect command of English. This role requires advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and familiarity with tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Qualifications

• Strong personal integrity and a team player.
• Proven ability to track and manage multiple bids.
• Experience in project management and business analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple, parallel bids to meet deadlines.
• Study bid documents to understand client needs.
• Produce and manage quotes and commercial contracts.

Skills

Team player with strong integrity

Motivated, flexible, organized

Analytical skills

Project management experience

Perfect English (C1)

Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office

SDLC understanding

Tools

Atlassian JIRA

Confluence

Sharepoint

Job description

Project description

We are seeking a Bid Manager (Project Manager/ Deal Coordinator) to join the GrowthX Bid Management Team to support the bid process, new business generation activities, and preparation of documentation for formal tenders, handling client requests (RFIs/ RFPs, etc.), and creating content for client's presentations. Multitasking and being proactive is a must. Each team member is also expected to lead one or more internal team areas or initiatives contributing towards evolution of business processes and effectiveness. The Bid Manager owns the full bid management cycle to increase efficiency, time to quote, quote to cash and consequently significantly improves our customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Managing multiple, parallel bids to meet sales bid deadlines
• Studying and analyzing bid documents to understand the needs of the client
• Making the proposal structure and bid approach fit the customer bid requirements
• Managing bid pricing and commercial strategy within agreed bid frameworks and approval frameworks
• Managing and reviewing bid inputs (internal and third-party) to ensure high-quality output, e.g. SOW and pricing
• Producing and managing preliminary and final quotes, commercial project contracts, and any document related to the bid
• Documenting/archiving bid information in dedicated databases and data sharing sites, ensuring that all critical information is current and complete
• Coordinating joint efforts of the bid team, distributing the tasks
• Preparing case studies and other reference materials
• Collating materials provided by various departments

Skills

Must have

• A team player with a strong personal integrity
• Motivated, flexible, organized and process-oriented
• Able to track and manage multiple discussion threads and bids, ensuring continuity and follow-up
• Analytical, project coordination and business analysis skills
• Project management experience
• Perfect English (C1)
• Distinct ability to work independently, though being flexible to work under supervision/ in teams
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Understanding of SDLC

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Core Banking and Application Modernization
• Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
• Sharepoint