Bid Manager

7 months ago

Nuneaton, United Kingdom Unipart Logistics Full time

**Location**: Blended / remote working
**Contract type**: Full time
**Hours**: 40 hours per week
**Salary**: £45,000 to £50,000 dependent upon experience, plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

**About the Role**:
As a Bid Manager at Unipart Logistics you will lead and manage a wide variety of warehousing and transport tender opportunities across multiple sectors, engaging with dynamic and forward-thinking colleagues from across the entire organisation to deliver vibrant bid-winning proposals.

Reporting to the Senior Bid Manager, this role represents an exciting opportunity within our business development function; a department which is growing through a number of recent wins with large, blue-chip organisations. At Unipart, you will work for a company that places innovative solutions and employee-focused initiatives at the heart of everything we do.

**As part of your key responsibilities you'll**:

- Be accountable for the allocated response to all public and private tenders and proposals
- Lead the 'virtual bid team' within each sector through the defined UL Bid Management process. This will comprise multiple work streams including Business Development, Operations, Solution Design, Project Management, Finance, IT, HR and Commercial
- Write and design articulate, concise, and customer-centric proposals, presentations, and other documents as required
- Manage the end-to end production of bid documentations and ensure that all proposals are completed on time and comply fully with the customer specification and requirements
- Facilitate Value Proposition sessions, to ensure customer-centric and rationalised win strategies are developed and integrated into submission documents
- Lead the qualification and sign-off processes, ensuring we are pursuing and responding to the correct business opportunities
- Track and manage key outputs, actions, and clarifications throughout the bid process
- Lead tender review meetings to drive collaborative sessions with the 'virtual' bid team
- Ensure a high quality and, customer-centric, look and feel of all proposal documents
- Work with the sector team and key stakeholders to develop sector, industry and customer insight, including competitor insight to support Unipart's Challenger selling strategy
- Work with the wider UL Bid Management Team to improve processes on an ongoing basis
- Act as an ambassador for Bid management practices across the sector and wider Unipart Logistics business

**About You**:

- Strong bid management experience in the public and private sector
- The ability to confidently and persuasively write to a high level
- Articulate, with strong verbal and presentation skills
- A proficient user of Microsoft Office, in particular PowerPoint and Word
- Experience operating at a senior level and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and manage resources/output timelines
- Used to working under pressure and to challenging deadlines with energy and passion, and will have the flexibility to deal with change
- Experience in the field of supply chain logistics and external bid training (for instance, Shipley or APMP would be advantageous)

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation, we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience in the following: Bid Management Specialist, Proposal Manager, Bidding Coordinator, Bid Development Manager, Tender Manager, Proposal and Bid Coordinator, Bid Strategy Specialist, Proposal Development Manager, Bidding and Proposal Coordinator, Logistics Bid Manager, Warehousing Proposal Lead, Supply Chain Tender Manager, etc.

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