Senior Bid Coordinator

Gleeds Corporate Services Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team as a Senior Bid Coordinator, where you will lead the bid process for exciting projects in the North England region. This role requires a proactive and creative individual who can manage multiple bids while collaborating with a talented team. You will develop winning strategies, oversee the writing and response process, and ensure high-quality submissions that reflect the company's values. This opportunity offers a supportive environment with a focus on professional development and career growth, allowing you to make a significant impact in the industry.

Benefits

Opportunities for career development

Contributory pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Global travel scholarship programme

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Minimum three years' experience in bidding and project management.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe InDesign.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and proposition development on major regional bids.
• Manage multiple bids simultaneously while ensuring quality and compliance.
• Support decision to bid process and engage with bid contributors.

Skills

Microsoft Office Suite

Adobe InDesign

Project Management

Bid Management

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Creativity

Team Leadership

Education

Degree in a relevant discipline

Professionally qualified (APMP)

Job description

About The Role

About this opportunity

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Bid Coordinator to join the Gleeds North England regional business, under the coordination of the Global Bid Team to support targeted business growth through the creation of winning bid submissions. We do this by ensuring we target the right opportunities with the right proposition in a compelling way.

The Senior Bid Coordinator is expected to lead regional bids for the North England business (across some 170 technical staff operating from 4 regional offices) to provide support for public and private sector bids. You will support the decision to bid and will contribute to strategy, as well as management planning of each bid; managing storyboarding workshops; as well as managing the writing and response process to ensure that a compelling, professional and compliant bid is developed, on time and with the appropriate levels of review and gateway sign off. You will be expected to manage multiple bids simultaneously whilst supporting the management of workload and pipeline for the team.

As an enthusiastic, motivated and approachable manager in the UK Bid Team, you are expected to develop win strategies and bid plans and bring ideas, innovation and fresh, creative thinking to the regional bid process whilst also being a team ambassador and setting high standards of behaviour and professionalism.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

1. Support decision to bid process (bid to win), including alignment with regional business plans and sector growth. The undertaking of bid/no bid conversations with Technical Leads is essential to ensuring that we are targeting the correct opportunities;
2. Lead storyboarding workshops to develop clear structures for responses which articulate our win themes;
3. Lead strategy and proposition development on major regional bids to ensure win themes are clearly articulated at the outset of the bid process;
4. Produce clear answer schedules which enable technical authors to generate compelling draft content;
5. Supervise team members, to include delegating responsibility, training and evaluating performance;
6. Manage the bid process, engaging with the bid contributors on a bid by bid and day to day basis;
7. Timely planning, management and completion of bid submissions;
8. Organise the review of the submissions against client requirements for high quality and accuracy;
9. Plan, write and coordinate bid responses;
10. Collaborate in the understanding and interpretation of the questions and evaluation criteria within tender documents;
11. Direct the construction of relevant answers which clearly answer the clients’ question and portray the company in the best light;
12. Support tender interview and clarifications process;
13. Ensure accurate and up to date information is placed in all tender and pre-qualification questionnaire documents;
14. Maintain records and stats relating to submissions and successes;
15. Build internal and external relationships with individuals associated with the bid process in order to create quality bids;
16. Develop a creative approach to the writing and presentation of bids;
17. Identify opportunities to enhance and improve the process, whilst sharing best practice with the team;
18. Ensure the quality of the response and bid to reflect our company values;
19. Support other regional and national bids where bid submissions reach a peak;
20. Champion the role of the bid team around the company and dealing with ad-hoc queries;
21. Support internal projects including continuously improving the bid process;
22. Maintain an up-to-date data base of CVs, and case studies;
23. Support regional business development process with presentational material;

As a Gleeds team member, you will have access to:

1. Opportunities to develop and grow your career
2. A contributory pension scheme
3. Employee Assistance Programme
4. Our global travel scholarship programme
5. Flexible working arrangements

About You

Who we’re looking for:

Experience

1. Minimum three years’ experience in bidding;
2. Understanding of professional service and/or the building/property;
3. Construction industry experience (desirable);
4. Ability to demonstrate experience successfully managing bids generating over £250k fee revenue or with a value of over £15m construction cost;
5. Experience of contributing to bids generating over £1m fee revenue or with a value of over £100m construction cost;
6. Project management experience;
7. Line management experience;
8. Demonstrate creativity and innovation through the production of bespoke documentation;
9. Ability to plan and execute bid planning workshops with multiple attendees and complex team structures.

Key Skills

1. Highly experienced in Microsoft Office Suite, with exceptional Word and PowerPoint formatting skills;
2. Highly experienced in Adobe InDesign;
3. Excellent command of both spoken and written English (mandatory);
4. A proactive, self-motivated, enthusiastic and determined bid professional;
5. Skilled in editing copy to correct grammar, spelling and punctuation and to ensure consistent standard and style;
6. A team player and effective communicator able to establish and maintain harmonious and professional relationships with clients and colleagues;
7. Work on own initiative, and to an exceedingly high quality;
8. Able to multi-task and work to tight deadlines in high pressure situations;
9. Possess strong organisational and project management skills;
10. Flexible, results driven and keen to take responsibility;
11. Manage delivery through multiple team members and internal/external stakeholders.

Qualifications:

1. Degree in a relevant discipline (desirable);
2. Professionally qualified (APMP) (desirable)

About Us

About us

A world of opportunity

Gleeds is a place to be part of something bigger. We take pride in our diverse and supportive culture that empowers you to make a difference while creating connections with brilliant people – colleagues and clients alike. Enjoy doing work that shapes our collective future, while steering your own journey in a trusting environment. Benefit from our rich heritage and global opportunities as you construct a career with purpose.

With over 75 offices across the globe, you’ll become part of a truly global team that isn’t restricted by borders. We welcome new perspectives and ideas but above all, we believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together. Wherever we are in the world, we’re committed to the success of our people, clients and communities – giving everyone a safer and more sustainable place to live, work and thrive.

Our values underpin what we stand for and how we work:

1. Professionalism with personality
2. Excellence with humility
3. Innovation with agility

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, marital status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status or gender.

We recognise the importance of work/life balance and agree flexible working arrangements to suit each individual.

Gleeds is a Great Place to Work certified employer.