Competitive Bid Analyst

Capgemini; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global technology organization is looking for a Commercial Bid Analyst to enhance data analysis within the commercial finance function. This permanent role will include responsibilities like navigating complex pricing mechanisms, supporting proposals, and collaborating with experienced finance professionals to optimize business decisions. Opportunities for development and a supportive working environment are integral parts of this role, with hybrid working options available.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong mathematical background is a must.
• Proactive and able to work in unstructured environments.
• Experience with data modeling is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Navigate pricing mechanisms across 30+ contracts.
• Support proposals ensuring commercial robustness.
• Collaborate with finance professionals and bid teams.

Skills

Numeracy

Communication

Analytical Skills

Education

STEM or business-related degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Power Query

SQL

Python

Job description

About the job you're considering

Do you have ambitions of pursuing a long-term career at a global technology organization? Are you highly numerate with a commercial mindset and a curiosity for data analysis? We are looking for a Commercial Bid Analyst to join our ambitious team. This is a permanent role offering an exciting blend of data analysis, business partnering and commercial shaping.

This is a great opportunity for somebody with a strong mathematical or finance background to put your analytical skills to good use. The role will involve working on a variety of projects and tasks within the commercial finance function and wider business to support decision making. You will gather, break down and simplify data and learn about our business using a variety of methods. Your conclusions will help to drive our business forward and add new insights to a complex organization.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

One of the main responsibilities of this role is to navigate the numerous pricing mechanisms we have across 30+ separate contracts with the client. You will support and critically assess the proposals before they are shared with the customer, ensuring that statements of work are commercially and financially robust while identifying opportunities to optimise revenue, margin, and cash flow.
You will be a self-starter but will be supported in your role by a team of experienced finance professionals. After a period of shadowing, you will get involved in modelling tasks for new business activities. You will work closely with bid teams to produce deal information and start to make recommendations to get the best commercial outcomes for Capgemini

Your skills and experience

We are looking for someone who is proactive and brings positive 'can-do' attitude to their work. To be successful in the role you will:
• Be able to demonstrate you are highly numerate and can perform bespoke financial/business analysis
• Have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, rapidly enhancing your skillset to become an advanced user
• Be able to absorb complex information and add value quickly
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to work in an unstructured environment and able to prioritise multiple streams of work to meet tight timescales.

Skills not necessary but desirable:

• Have experience working in a complex commercial environment
• Experience of data modelling
• Qualified accountant or qualified by experience desirable but not required. Continuation of study towards a qualification may be supported
• STEM or business-related degree
• Knowledge of Power Query / SQL / Python (within excel)

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

What does 'Get the Future You Want' mean for you

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
You'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you'll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what's possible. It's why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world's leading businesses, and it's how you'll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.