Strategic Bid & Mobilisation Coordinator

Sharpsmart Ltd.; Ashby-de-la-Zouch; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharpsmart Ltd. is seeking a highly organised Bid & Mobilisation Coordinator / Administrator to join the Commercial Operations team in the UK.

The role covers bid management, tender coordination, and mobilisation of new customer contracts, with exposure to pricing data, contract documentation and content development. You will work with Commercial, Operations, Sales, Marketing and Logistics to manage multiple bids and projects, ensuring timely actions, accurate information and a collaborative

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organisation, coordination and administrative capability.
• High attention to detail and a methodical approach to managing information.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, deadlines and competing priorities.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills and confidence engaging with colleagues at all levels.
• Good research and information-gathering skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.
• A collaborative, positive and solutions-focused approach.
• Curiosity, initiative and a genuine interest in learning about commercial operations and bid management.

Responsibilities

• Support the coordination of tender opportunities, bid submissions and contract mobilisation activity.
• Manage the shared bid inbox, coordinate responses to tender queries and maintain tender portal updates.
• Organise bid and mobilisation meetings, circulate agendas, take notes and maintain action logs.
• Maintain mobilisation plans, trackers, project documentation and weekly progress reports.
• Follow up with internal stakeholders to ensure actions, information and approvals are completed on time.
• Identify and elevate risks, delays or dependencies that could affect bid submissions or contract mobilisation.
• Coordinate the collection and validation of pricing information, ensuring high-quality and accurate data is maintained.
• Create and coordinate orders through the Coupa system.
• Support accurate use of Salesforce, ensuring relevant stakeholders provide complete and up-to-date information.
• Complete administrative bid documentation, including supplier questionnaires, Duty of Care packs and supporting compliance information.
• Work with the Bid Writer to maintain and improve the bid content library and standard tender responses.
• Gather new content, evidence, case studies, testimonials, innovation examples and operational success stories from across the business.
• Help develop bespoke written content and supporting narratives that demonstrate our capability, quality and innovation.
• Work with Marketing and operational teams to develop a regular pipeline of customer case studies.
• Maintain evidence repositories, lessons-learned registers and records of best practice to support future bids and mobilisations.
• Build strong working relationships with subject matter experts and ensure information is received clearly and on time.
• Identify opportunities to improve bid, mobilisation and commercial administration processes.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisation

Attention to detail

Multi-tasking

Stakeholder management

Research skills

Microsoft Office

Team collaboration

Initiative & learning

Tools

Salesforce

Coupa

Tender portals

Job description

Sharpsmart Ltd. is seeking a highly organised Bid & Mobilisation Coordinator / Administrator to join the Commercial Operations team in the UK.

The role covers bid management, tender coordination, and mobilisation of new customer contracts, with exposure to pricing data, contract documentation and content development. You will work with Commercial, Operations, Sales, Marketing and Logistics to manage multiple bids and projects, ensuring timely actions, accurate information and a collaborative