Strategic Bids & Tenders Lead – Commercial Pricing

Rexel Group; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension scheme

Life assurance

Annual Bonus Scheme

33 days annual leave

Job summary

Rexel UK is recruiting a Bid and Tenders Lead to manage end-to-end commercial pricing for the UK bid activity. You will shape pricing, assess margin, and lead cross-functional teams to ensure viable, competitive tenders.

The role requires strong electrical product knowledge, commercial acumen, and stakeholder influence to drive successful bids and continuous improvement across Rexel UK's bid activity.

Qualifications

• Strong electrical product knowledge.
• Excellent commercial acumen to assess bid viability, margin, competitiveness and risk.
• Bid/tender commercial pricing management from planning to submission.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with internal teams and external bid support.
• Analytical mindset to track win/loss outcomes and translate insight into improvements.

Responsibilities

• Owning and designing the commercial pricing and product strategy for Rexel UKs bid activity.
• Provide commercial insight and challenge to ensure bids are financially viable and contractually acceptable, including go/no-go recommendations.
• Own bid content inputs by matching products to requirements and assess margin impact.
• Implement pricing approach and margin models on potential bids and benchmark against market insights.
• Act as the commercial lead and main point of contact for bid/tender activity across internal stakeholders and external support partners.
• Drive continuous improvement in the commercial pricing of Rexel UK bidsthrough win/loss tracking and learning from past submissions.

Skills

Electrical knowledge

Commercial acumen

Bid/tender pricing management

Stakeholder management

Analytical mindset

Job description

Rexel UK is recruiting a Bid and Tenders Lead to manage end-to-end commercial pricing for the UK bid activity. You will shape pricing, assess margin, and lead cross-functional teams to ensure viable, competitive tenders.

The role requires strong electrical product knowledge, commercial acumen, and stakeholder influence to drive successful bids and continuous improvement across Rexel UK's bid activity.