Pricing & Tender Assistant

Veezu; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Veezu is seeking a Home to School Pricing Assistant to own the end-to-end pricing and tender submission process for Local Authority home-to-school tenders. This role will focus on accurate, competitive, and timely submissions across procurement portals.

You will manage pricing strategy and submission quality while coordinating across multiple tenders in various locations. The position is part-time (20h per week) and requires strong organisation and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong and polite communication skills on the phone, in person and by email.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise projects.
• Must be team focused.
• Guide commercial operations in your region, supporting the execution of the Group commercial strategy.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate the full tender submission process for Local Authority home-to-school transport contracts.
• Prepare, review and submit pricing proposals via multiple procurement portals (Proactis, ADAM, YORTender).
• Analyse tender requirements, specification and pricing structures to ensure full compliance.
• Track tenders and outcomes, providing insights to refine future bids.
• Identify shortages of resources by tracking no-bid tenders.
• Notify CAH and Account Managers of awards in a timely manner.
• Continuously review pricing processes, tools and submission quality.
• Support HTS Strategy by highlighting resource issues.
• Provide support on pricing exercises including NHS tenders and private tenders.

Skills

Pricing

Tender management

Communication

Multitasking

Teamwork

Tools

Proactis

ADAM

YORTender

Job description

Your role at Veezu:

As a Home to School Pricing Assistant, you will be responsible for leading the end-to-end pricing and submission process for all Local Authority home-to-school tenders. This role will play a critical part in securing new business by ensuring accurate, competitive, and timely tender submissions across a range of procurement portals.

You’ll be the central point of ownership for pricing strategy, submission quality and compliance - escalating commercial competitiveness with operational viability. You will need to be a highly organised individual who can keep track of multi tenders across various geographical locations, ensure documentation is sent and received in a timely manner and always ensure completion of business essential documentation.

Please note: this is a part time position (20h per week)

Who are Veezu?

Veezu is the UK's fastest growing taxi and private hire technology business operating across hundreds of UK towns and cities. We are a tech-driven on-demand mobility service that supports our hyper-local communities, helping them thrive and so much more!

What you’ll do:

Tender Management

• Managing and coordinating the full tender submission process for Local Authority home-to-school transport contracts.
• Prepare, review and submit pricing proposals via multiple procurement portals (e.g. Proactis, ADAM, YORTender).
• Analyse tender requirements, specification and pricing structures to ensure full compliance.
• Track all tenders and their outcomes, providing insight into win/loss performance to refine future bids.
• Track no bid tenders to help identify shortages of resources within areas.
• Work closely with CAH and Account Managers to notify in a timely manner of awards
• Continuously review and improve pricing processes, tools, and submission quality
• Support the businesses HTS Strategy – by highlighting resource issues.
• Provide support on additional pricing exercises as and when required by the commercial team, including PTS/NHS Tenders and private tenders.

Integration

• Work closely with the M&A/ Integration team to ensure a smooth transition for tendered routes within an acquisition.
• Work closely with Head of Bids and Tenders to ensure new Frameworks and portals are accessible straight away, enhancing growth opportunities
• Adopt a strong handover process to ensure key information is communicated. Ensuring all stakeholders are communicated with.

General

• Support members of the wider Group Commercial team as and when required.

Compliance

• Understand the Veezu Safety First approach and behave accordingly.
• Understand the Veezu Data Principles and behave accordingly.
• Understand the Passenger Terms & Conditions.
• Understand the Corporate Account Customer Terms & Conditions.
• Undertake all mandatory training.
• Maintain information security to a recognised required standard in line with business needs.
• You are committed to maintaining our ISO27001 certification and set high standards for Information Security compliance.
• Ensure legal and contractual compliance.

What you’ll need:

• Strong and polite communication skills both on the phone, in person and by email.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise projects.
• Must be team focused.
• Guide commercial operations in your region, supporting the execution of the Group commercial strategy.

Where you’ll be:

This role is flexible in terms of location; however, the successful candidate must be located within one of Veezu’s existing commercial hub locations. These are:

• Liverpool
• Norwich
• Cambridge
• Shrewsbury
• Cardiff
• Leeds
• Sheffield

Veezu is committed to fair and inclusive recruitment, welcoming applications from all backgrounds, experiences, and communities.