Bidding Lead

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom 4OC Full time

We are looking for a Bidding Lead to join the team to support 4OC in securing new business opportunities, primarily through the identification of compelling and competitive tenders. You will be responsible for leading and managing the end-to-end bid process, from opportunity identification through to bid submission, and driving continuous improvement through lessons-learned activities.

As part of our Business Development team, you will work closely with our senior leadership, delivery consultants and our partner organisations to develop tenders that meet client needs and differentiate our firm from competitors. We know that reaching more people means having more opportunities to deliver social, environmental and economic value for our clients, and that’s why we want you.

**GENERAL**
- **City/Town**:London
- **Type of Employment**:Permanent
- **Working Hours**:37.5 hours per week - typically 9 am to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday, but we work flexibly
- **Annual Salary**: £37,800 - £41,000
- **Bonus**:All the team get a profit share

**BENEFITS**
- 25 days holiday + all the bank holidays
- Active mentoring
- A Wellbeing program
- Employee discounts and rewards
- Company Pension
- Cycle to work scheme

**ABOUT YOU**

**_ Essential Criteria_**
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple bidding opportunities simultaneously
- Excellent editing and proofreading skills, with the ability to articulate complex ideas in a clear and concise manner
- Deep analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly assess information and develop recommendations
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite
- A minimum of 1 years' experience in driving successful tenders is preferred

We have evolved a clear picture of the kind of people who thrive in our team - if you think the following person sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you
- **Strong work ethic and attention to detail** — basically, we want someone who cares about doing the best job possible - for 4OC, for our teams, and for our clients. You may need to manage multiple bids and proposals simultaneously, so need to be highly organised and detail-oriented to ensure that all proposals are delivered on time, meet client requirements and are of the highest quality.
- **Energetic and articulate** — You can engage with our business, ask the right questions and produce high-quality outputs, extracting the magic dust from our staff and partners.
- **Team player** — We are a close-knit crew in 4OC - We all look out for and help each other. You should be the kind of someone who wants to fit into this culture and whose values are a good fit with ours.
- **Resilient** — You can handle the pressures that come with bidding and you can quickly adapt to changing priorities and deadlines.
- **Continuous learner** — You should be able to develop and thrive through continuously learning, keeping up to date with industry trends, best practices and technologies so that you can continue to hone your skills and to help 4OC win more work

To be successful in this role, you will be a self-motivated and flexible person who is eager to support a dynamic consultancy specialising in change for public service delivery organisations.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

A lot of our work at 4OC involves the detailed examination of how a particular service or process is being delivered and trying to design a better way of doing things for the client.

We are looking for someone who can work within our Business Development team to drive bidding operations and to help steward successful tenders that position 4OC as a Thought Leader in the field of public service delivery, driving major partnerships and sales.

**ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Steward the entire bid process including opportunity identification, bid/no-bid qualifications, proposal development, submission and post-submission activities
- Support the development of proposal win strategies and themes that align with the clients' objectives and 4OC's strengths and differentiators
- Ensure our internal governance processes are adhered to, including bid/no-bid solutioning and commercial approvals, and ensure that all stakeholders are aligned and informed throughout the bid process
- Maintain our internal bid manual and processes and our library of reusable proposal content, graphics and diagrams, case studies and templates - ensuring they are up-to-date, accurate and relevant, to make bid submissions so much easier
- Ensure that proposals are compliant with client requirements and that they are submitted on time and in the right format

**ABOUT US**

**What we do** - We are a friendly, successful, and dynamic management consultancy in Borough with (what we think is an) amazing office culture, working across the country with high-profile public sector clie

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