Head of Bids/Bid Manager

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About The Role

allpay is a thriving, owner-led business that strives to provide outstanding service and client satisfaction within the payments industry. We have spent time investing in our products and services and are now on a journey of growth and expansion.

We are currently seeking an experienced Head of Bids/Bid Manager to join us and take on ownership for allpay's full end to end bid process. Within this role you will build brilliant relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, to collaborate on submitting award winning bids.

This role will be based at our offices in Hereford, but individuals need to be comfortable with travel across the UK for events and client visits when not over Teams.

Key responsibilities:

1. Ensuring bids are optimised against evaluation criteria by managing, motivating, challenging and directing subject matter experts in the business effectively.
2. Understanding and communicating risks of each bid, liaising with teams across the business to ensure risks are understood/mitigated.
3. Proactively keep up to date with the competitive marketplace, working closely with market intelligence, sales and product to ensure competitive advantages and strategy are well understood and proposals are shaped around these areas.
4. Leading and motivating a small Bid team.

About You

To be successful in this role you will need:

1. Demonstrable delivery of complex, high value Public Sector bids, preferably within the payments sector.
2. Proven experience in mentoring and developing team members, with strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
3. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capability to make data-driven decisions.
4. Self-motivated with a relentless drive for results and a strategic mindset.
5. Strong commercial acumen to understand the implications of pricing submissions.
6. The ability to build excellent working relationships across an array of stakeholders.
7. To be highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
8. To be educated to degree level or equivalent.
9. APMP qualified to Practitioner level.

About Us

People are at the heart of allpay and we reward our employees with a competitive benefits package which includes a defined contribution group pension scheme, income protection, life assurance, an array of health and wellbeing options including private healthcare cover and an onsite gym. This is coupled with our excellent Learning and Development offering.

We are a company committed to Equal Opportunities.

All roles at allpay Limited are subject to successful background checks including a DBS and Credit Check.