Bids & Proposals Team Leader

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham, Hong Kong, Leeds, Limassol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Monaco, Newcastle, Piraeus and Singapore. With more than 1000 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.
Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.
Bids & Proposals Team Leader
Hours : Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:00 (35 hours per week)
Happy to talk flexible working
Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2024 and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
27 days annual leave
~ Annual bonus scheme
~ Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
~Optional private medical insurance via BUPA
~ Annual fitness allowance
~ Annual travel allowance
~ Flexible pension scheme
~ ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
~ Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme
~ EAP with access to counselling
~ Enhanced family leave policies
~ Life assurance
~ Annual travel season ticket loan
~ Hybrid working and dress for your day policy
~ Bespoke training and development opportunities
~ Financial contribution towards home working equipment

This is a newly created role at Hill Dickinson and will provide an experienced senior bid manager the opportunity to develop further their skills in leading a bid function within a c£170m turnover law firm.
Reporting to the Head of Client Development, you will be leading a team of talented Bid Managers, the bid pipeline and ensuring that we have an accurate and easy to access bids and proposal content library. You will also lead as project manager and content writer on specific opportunities alongside our lawyers to deliver winning public and private sector tender responses.
We collaborate with teams across the firm’s three divisions - health, business services and marine - to produce high-quality responses to opportunities of all sizes - this includes a range of activity including, large scale formal panel reviews, ad hoc RFPs, ITTs, ITQs and the development of bespoke capability statements.
Support and help develop our talented and experienced people in the bid team (comprising up to three bid managers and an executive).
Develop and maintain a library of content for tenders including capturing all relevant information to be utilised in future bids and proposals.
Stakeholder management of lawyers to champion best practice and continually support adherence to industry-aligned processes.
Coaching and mentoring stakeholders within the firm across all stages of the bid process to ensure best in class results are achieved. Project managing tender opportunities, including major panel frameworks and call-off opportunities.
Generating written responses which consider government policy and topical issues in the firm’s chosen sectors.
Collaborating with the wider BD&M team, including our creative, CRM, client development and business partnering colleagues and Central Services division, including risk and compliance, finance and HR.
Law firm or accountancy background.
Team and pipeline management experience.
Bid project management and bid writing.
Proven ability of writing concise responses based on highly technical information for public sector clients.
Strong stakeholder management skills and experience of collaborating with individuals at all levels.
Strong organisational and planning skills.
Exceptional project management skills.
Strong IT skills across the Microsoft Office suite.
Flexibility in approach and a willingness to work outside normal office hours.
Willingness to travel (predominantly to Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds) with the purpose of developing and maintaining relationships with the team and other key stakeholders. We encourage hybrid working with 50% in a fortnight to be spent in the office.
APMP (Association for Proposal Management Professional) Foundation Certification

If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to apply and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.