Bid Manager

**Bid Manager**

**Salary: £32,100 - £41,700**

**Location: Cambridge**

**Contract: 12-month Fixed Term Contract**

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

Our Cambridge Partnership for Education (CPE) Bids and Proposals unit have an exciting opportunity for a Bid Manager, where you will play a key role in supporting CPE to secure bids and proposals with high-stakes clients and help them achieve their globalmission of transforming societies through education.

**About the role**

CPE partners with ministries of education and international development organisations to improve the quality of education systems. We develop bespoke solutions to suit a country's individual context, need and vision so that we can have a real impact.

As a Bid Manager, you will manage and coordinate the end-to-end bid and proposal process to deliver compliant, professionally produced proposals within customer defined timeframes.

Using your excellent communication skills, you will coordinate and review/edit proposal input from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from Business Development, Technical, Delivery and Corporate Services teams, as well as the widerUniversity and external partners.

You will support the Head of Bids and Proposals with activities to raise the commercial awareness of the technical teams during proposal writing, costing and pricing processes. You will be comfortable managing both the commercial and technical aspects ofa proposal for each opportunity.

**About you**

You will have exceptional project management skills and will be a strong collaborator. With your proven ability in planning, producing, and delivering compliant proposals within a complex business environment, you will be happy to hit the ground runningand a confident problem solver.

You will ideally have knowledge and experience of procurement processes for and responding to tenders & regulatory requirements.

You will be able to provide leadership and direction to all grades of staffing in order to successfully produce and deliver proposals. Communicating and influencing at a senior level, internally and externally, you will be comfortable working on your owninitiative in all areas of this role. You will also have:

- Strong attention to detail
- Strong IT skills
- Strong written English language skills

**Rewards and benefits**

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

- Group personal pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Green travel schemes
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

**Why join us**
- Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharingour mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration._
- Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential towho we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet._