Bid Author

1 month ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Datasource Full time

**Introduction**:
**Our client is a leading Defence and Engineering consultancy who are looking for an ambitious Bid Manager who will be responsible for managing bids through the full lifecycle**

The Bid Manager is the owner of the bid plan and has overall responsibility for producing a compelling proposal, on time and within an agreed bid budget - this is an excellent opportunity to work on a diverse range of bids and contribute to the clients win-work success

This role offers hybrid working, 2/3 days on site and the rest working remotely.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Identifying the resources required to undertake bid preparation and delivery activities.
- Working with the Bid Director to define and agree a bid budget and schedule baseline.
- Controlling the bid budget and schedule against agreed baselines.
- Scheduling review activities and the allocation of appropriately qualified reviewers.
- Ensuring all necessary information and documentation is available to undertake Gate Reviews and gaining the requisite approvals.
- Design and develop the content plan so that the bid response document is in full compliance with the customer's stated requirements.
- Ensuring the dissemination of information to all members of the bid team.

**Skills & experience**:

- Working on bids from early inception and client information capture, through PQQ and ITT stage, onto client interviews, feedback and lessons learnt.
- Experience of structured bid processes, for example the Shipley bid process, and using these to produce high quality bid submissions.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate well at all levels.
- Can run forums from one-to-ones to group workshops and facilitation.
- Experience within Defence, Public Sector or Government bids ideal.

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