Bid Manager

17 hours ago


West Bromwich, United Kingdom St John Ambulance Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Bid Manager to join our team at St John Ambulance. As a Bid Manager, you will be responsible for managing and producing tender responses across various business areas, including Commercial Training, First Aid and Health & Safety Supplies, Events, Urgent & Emergency Care, and other services.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage the Bid Management process, ensuring all bid documents meet deadlines and have undergone appropriate levels of scrutiny.
  • Chair and organise bid kick-off meetings with internal stakeholders.
  • Feed information into the Bid Writer in a timely and organised fashion and ensure all bids are of consistent high quality to meet the customer or commissioner's expectations.
  • Lead on writing, creating, and preparing expressions of interest, prequalification questionnaires, ITT responses, and standalone proposals and presentations.
  • Maintain the Bid library, working with functions and the operation to collate relevant, up-to-date supporting information for proposals, ensuring its accuracy and accessibility.
  • Complete the bid/no bid tool and agree with relevant key stakeholders to ensure any tenders are aligned with both the relevant departments' strategy, operational capability, e.g., skills, vehicles, and capacity.
Requirements
  • Experience in managing, writing, or coordinating bids, tenders, proposals, or grants.
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritise work to tight deadlines.
  • Ability to work under pressure, working on multiple simultaneous deadlines.
  • Understanding of what makes a winning proposal and ability to see a bid through a client's eyes.
  • Research and analytical skills to understand the commercial context of opportunities and how we can add value.
  • In-depth knowledge of tender and proposal processes, with knowledge of public sector procurement an advantage.
  • Good copywriting skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent spelling and grammar.
  • Influencing skills, to help and advise internal partners at each stage of the tender and proposal process.
  • Continuous improvement attitude – sharing knowledge and best practice in workshops and training sessions.
  • Approachable and personable with an ability to build relationships quickly.
About Us

St John Ambulance is a charity with a rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity. We are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future. We work at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We believe passionately in equality, diversity, and inclusion.


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