Senior Bid Manager

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom UBDS IT Consulting Ltd Full time

UBDS, a leading digital transformation partner in the public and private sectors, is seeking a Senior Bid Manager to join their team. This role will be responsible for managing competitive bids and proposals for the company's end-to-end digital transformation services. The Senior Bid Manager will work closely with the Sales and Delivery teams to ensure bid responses are high quality and submitted on-time. The ideal candidate must have strong experience in bid management and demonstrate exceptional communication and project management skills.

With a can-do attitude and get-it-done culture, UBDS is passionate about technology and innovation. The company offers end-to-end digital transformation services, spanning from Digital Advisory to Managed Services. Our experts have deep knowledge and are specialists in their field, working hand in hand with customers to deliver outcomes required.

Responsibilities Bid management
  • Manage and contribute to the bid qualification (Go / No Go Decision) process for new opportunities
  • Assemble and manage virtual bid teams comprising a variety of stakeholders, commercial, practices, delivery, HR, finance, compliance and legal
  • Direct the process for bids and maintain responsibility for the quality and consistency of all proposals
  • Analyse bids/proposals at all stages ensuring that the overall solution optimises client's chance of success
  • Ensure overall consistency of the bid strategy and anticipate critical success factors
  • Prepare, shape and review the commercial aspects of the bid, ensuring all services are included in the final price to the customer and ensure that the costs support the price to win
  • Risk identification, evaluation, tracking and management throughout the bid process
  • Contributing to the written proposal - both in terms of content and presentation (such as preparation of a management summary)
  • Manage escalation process with bids
  • Ensure timely delivery of compliant and commercially sound bids
  • Understand and resolve complex technical, strategic and business issues
  • Arrange all post bid reviews with customers, post contract award
  • Pipeline management and tracking
  • Opportunity tracking (via Tussell, Contracts Finder, Kimble etc)
  • Portal Management
  • Bachelor’s degree in management or English (advantageous)
  • Experience as a bid writer / manager
  • Excellent oral and written communicator
  • Excellent industry knowledge and a willingness to keep up with trends.
  • Superb written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong teamwork and interpersonal abilities.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Deadline-driven and committed to excellence.


Why people choose to grow their careers at UBDS

People are the most important aspect of our business, so adding the right people to the team and helping them grow is critical. This is why we’ve invested in a people-focused team to look after the entire employee experience.

With an impressive portfolio of customers in both the public and private sectors, we have a variety of exciting projects to be involved in. As a technology agnostic organisation, you’ll gain exposure to the world’s leading and latest technology.

Employee Benefits

  • Training – All team members are offered a number of options in terms of personal development, whether it is technical led, business acumen or methodologies. We want you to grow with us and to help us achieve more
  • Private medical cover for you and your spouse/partner, offered via Vitality
  • Discretionary bonus based on a blend of personal and company performance
  • Holiday – You will receive 25 Days holiday, plus 1 day for Birthday and 1 day for your work anniversary in addition to UK bank holidays
  • Electric Vehicle leasing with salary sacrifice
  • Contributed Pension Scheme
  • Death in service cover
  • Hybrid Working - UBDS offers a flexible working environment to help enable you to operate at your maximum regardless of your location. With offices in London & Manchester we offer a culture that is focussed on outcomes and giving you a work life balance but at that same time creating and driving a culture of inclusivity and togetherness

About UBDS

UBDS was born out of a vision to build lasting relationships by delivering digital transformation solutions with unrivalled speed and efficiency. We have taken complex organisations to the frontier of innovation, transforming enterprise and public sector to be faster, leaner and more competitive.

Organisations turn to us for deep knowledge, specialist skills, years of on-the-job experience and our can-do and get-it done culture.

Projects are personal. Our work is an extension of the values we embody, and we are always looking for ways to fill the gap for our clients. For us, it’s about top- and bottom-line growth, and equipping our clients with cutting-edge technology that empowers innovation.

We exist to deliver significant, measurable and sustainable digital transformation, and we achieve this by delivering value to our customers in the following ways:

1. Accelerating change

2. Ensuring frictionless high performance

3. Mitigating risk and ensuring security

From advisory, to design and execution, we implement the technology that aligns with our clients’ goals – to help them innovate and thrive. We have four key values that guide the way we work together, engage with our customers, make decisions, and ultimately succeed:

Our reputation is everything

We are passionate about technology and innovation

We deliver value and make an impact

We keep it simple and make it happen

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

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