Bid Manager

Role: Bid Manager

Location: Wigan plus home working

Salary: up to £65k plus car allowance and benefits

Howells are working with a privately owned residential energy efficiency and decarbinisation contractor that are looking to recruit a Bid Manager to support their work winning team.

Bid Manager Job purpose:

Take ownership of and lead the researching, development and be responsible for the writing of bid proposals, including collating key data, coordinating with key stakeholders, including estimating and operational leads, managing their contributions, and ensuring completion of written requirements in agreed-upon timeframes.

Bid Manager key responsibilities:

• Managing the bid lifecycles of agreed-upon opportunities, from bid review to writing quality submissions, and managing and coordinating the bid lifecycle, including post-bid activities.
• Follow the SBS bid management protocols and processes
• Producing the initial Bid/No Bid for relevant opportunities to inform the decision making process to pursue the opportunity, or not
• Complete Tender Reviews for approved bids and issue to the relevant team members
• Arrange Tender Kick-off meetings, and complete storyboarding sessions with relevant bid stakeholders to ensure

• Support the Senior Bid Coordinator in the completion of more complex SQ and DPS responses
• Developing relationships with SBS bid contributors, including commercial and operational members, and external partners, such as design partners and consultants, to develop excellent bid responses
• Capturing commercial and quality feedback to drive improvement. Carry out and document a lessons-learnt exercise following feedback from each bid, driving an environment of continual improvement within our bid responses
• Support the team in maintaining the bid library to support the ongoing bid function, including taking ownership of subject elements to keep the information up to date
• Supporting the Senior Bid Coordinator during busy times when required, and covering their bid admin responsibilities (managing the bid mailbox, ensuring tender clarifications/queries are issued and responded to, etc.) when they are on leave
• Attending a range of networking, procurement, and bidding events, as and when required
• Working closely with Business Development team to gain market intelligence.
• Working collaboratively with the team to ensure bids/submissions are uploaded within the required deadlines
• Gathering market, competitor and client intelligence as needed
• Apply continuous improvement principles
• Proactively support team members when required
• Work collaboratively with other Group departments to share information and collateral where required

Bid Manager Knowledge & Skills:

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Total commitment to quality, accuracy and detail
• Keen eye for detail and proofreading skills
• Experience of bid management processes and procedures
• Experience of working on bids in Social Housing, Construction or Facilities management

Desirable

• Experience in a similar role or within the industry
• Understanding of procurement, and relevant legislations such as the Procurement Act 2023, Building Safety Act 2022

If you have the above experience or would like to find out more please click to apply or call Gary Sewell on 07852 836 581

Applications

If you feel that you have the relevant experience to be successful in this position and would like to find out more please apply online today attaching a copy of your current CV. Alternatively contact us on 01474 850707.

Howells are an Equal Opportunities employer. All applications will be dealt with in the strictest confidence. Howells acts as an Employment Business for the supply of temporary workers and an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.