Strategic Solution Lead – Bid, Design & Delivery

MAXIMUS; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 74,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MAXIMUS is seeking a proactive Senior Bid Manager to lead end-to-end bid development for complex public sector opportunities. You will shape solutions, orchestrate cross-functional teams, and ensure governance and quality throughout the submission process.

The role requires strong service design, stakeholder management, and a track record in public sector bidding to deliver integrated, value-driven solutions for diverse clients.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable service design experience - capturing existing customer journeys and leading the reimagination of future customer journeys via facilitated workshops
• Experience identifying how technology can improve customer experience and increase value for money and the documentation of functional technology requirements
• Prior experience of Public Sector bidding within Employability, Health, Justice or Contact Centre environments
• Proven ability working with key bid team and wider solution workstream stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Builds an understanding of the market and bid opportunity to develop a tailored solution
• Understands the client business, functional and non-functional requirements
• Design and develop high-quality, tailored and costed delivery solutions in collaboration with subject matter experts and operations colleagues to achieve the service users' needs and the customer's objectives
• Lead solution assurance and support governance prior to submission to the customer
• Create bid narrative and act as final editor alongside Bid Director/Business Development Mgr on all written material that forms part of the solution response
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with the solution
• Support a lessons learned exercise on solution development on each opportunity

Skills

Service design

Public sector bidding

Stakeholder management

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

MAXIMUS is seeking a proactive Senior Bid Manager to lead end-to-end bid development for complex public sector opportunities. You will shape solutions, orchestrate cross-functional teams, and ensure governance and quality throughout the submission process.

The role requires strong service design, stakeholder management, and a track record in public sector bidding to deliver integrated, value-driven solutions for diverse clients.