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At Mitie, we believe in creating better places and thriving communities. We're looking for a dynamic and driven Bid Manager to join our high-performing team to support us win exciting new business opportunities, contract retention and extensions, and secure our place on key frameworks.

If you're passionate about crafting winning strategies and content, leading collaborative teams, and delivering high-quality, high-impact bids - this is your chance to make a real difference.

What You'll Be Doing...

As our Bid Manager, you'll take the lead in managing and coordinating the end-to-end bidding process. You'll be the driving force behind compelling and compliant proposals that showcase Mitie as the partner of choice.



Main duties

-Support the sales team in the developing and implementing the overall proposal strategy, including the identification of win themes and differentiated solutions.

-Translate win strategies into clear and compelling bid responses, ensuring that bids are compliant and high-scoring.

-Develop and deliver detailed bid plans that outline the approach, schedule, resource requirements and reviews for each bid.

-Analyse the client specification documents to make sure the bid addresses all customer requirements and is fully compliant.

-Develop storyboards and other documents to make sure all client requirements are addressed, and the win themes and strategic messaging is signposted and covered across each relevant response. Once reviewed, direct the writing and editing of bid text as necessary.

-Direct the implementation of review feedback into the bid, ensuring that the bid is refined and improved at each stage of the review process.

-Brief and coach Bid Writers and other contributors, making sure they understand the customer's requirements and our bid strategy.

-Support bid review teams by providing subject matter expertise, facilitating discussions, and ensuring that review feedback is captured and acted upon.

-Proofread and edit bid materials to ensure accuracy and consistency. This includes peer reviews of other Bid Manager's bids to help share best practice and lessons learned and to improve overall quality of bids from the team.

-Where required, write clear and concise executive summaries, solutions descriptions, and other critical components of the bid response that effectively communicate the company's value proposition.

-Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including commercial, technical, SME and legal, to gather information and deliver winning bids.

-Ensure fully auditable compliance with group and sales processes.

-Own and control the SharePoint/Teams folder for each allocated bids through to handover to ops.

-Other tasks as required, to deliver a winning bid.

Person specification

-Proven experience as a Bid Manager, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality, compliant, and high-scoring bids in response to new business opportunities.

-Strong project management skills, with the ability to develop and deliver a detailed bid plan and to manage the bid process from start to finish.

-Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to brief and train Bid Writers and other contributors, and to work closely with cross-functional teams to gather information and develop winning bid strategies.

-Strong attention to detail, with the ability to edit and proofread documents to ensure that they are error-free and meet the highest standards of quality.

-In-depth knowledge of the bidding process, with the ability to analyse the ITT/specification, and identify the right resources so the bid is compliant and high-scoring.

-Experience within the FM industry and an understanding of IFM services is strongly preferred.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

Since 1987, Mitie's 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.