Bid Team Leader

Hatch Recruitment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits

Career development opportunities

Supportive team culture

Job summary

A leading law firm in Manchester is seeking a Bid Team Leader to manage a small team and guide the bidding process. You will ensure the firm submits innovative and engaging bids for both private and public sectors. Candidates should have significant experience in a similar role within a law or accountancy firm. This position offers a chance to advance towards a Head of Bidding role, along with competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Qualifications

• Considerable experience at a Bid Manager/Senior Bid Manager level within a law or accountancy firm.
• Ability to build internal relationships and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience submitting tenders for large public sector frameworks is a plus.
• Experience submitting tenders for large public sector frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage a small team and partner closely with the firm for successful bids.
• Implement a robust Go/NoGo process for bid relevance.
• Coach and mentor colleagues to increase win percentages.
• Coach colleagues in all aspects of the bid lifecycle to improve win percentage.
• Influence internal stakeholders to drive bidding strategy and framework compliance.

Skills

Team management

Relationship building

Stakeholder influence

Bid process mentoring

Tender submission experience

Education

APMP qualified

Job description

Overview

An exciting, and rare, opportunity has come up in the North West for a Bid Team Leader, working for a leading law firm. Managing a small team you will take ownership of guiding the function to becoming the best they can be.

Role and responsibilities

The role will have a small team reporting into it who, in turn and alongside yourself, will partner closely with the firm to ensure that the business is winning the business that it wants to work on and providing innovative and engaging bids and proposals for work across the private and public sectors. You will ensure that there is a robust Go/NoGo process in place to ensure that only relevant bids that the business want to win are worked on, where necessary building those relationships internally to be able to influence across the board and make sure necessary due diligence is done before bidding commences. You will be coaching and mentoring colleagues in all aspects of the bid process to aid with increasing the win percentage and working on all manner of bids and tenders from major public sector frameworks to individual commercial proposals.

Opportunity

This role represents a rare opportunity to take the step up in the bidding function from a strategic but delivery focused operator to a more commercial strategy emphasis, looking at what is best for the wider team, the wider firm and ensuring the adherence to the policies as a function. This role represents a great stepping stone towards a Head of Bidding position in a top tier law firm.

Requirements

In order to be successful at application you will need to have considerable experience at a Bid Manager/Senior Bid Manager level within a law or accountancy firm. Ideally you will be APMP qualified. the ability to build internal relationships, influence senior stakeholders and manage a team are a must. The cherry on the cake will be experience submitting tenders for large public sector frameworks.

Benefits/What we offer

This firm offers great benefits, a salary reflective of this level of role and a culture and team which are second to none (IMHO). The reality is that this firm and role offer a genuine opportunity to take a next step in your career and will continue to invest in your development.