Bid Manager – East Midlands – £Excellent

We are looking to appoint a high calibre Bid Manager to one of the UK’s leading marketing services companies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the tender response function from qualification through to pitching stage.
• Bid writing and managing company bid teams to gather responses.
• Continuously appraise and update the bid library to keep material current, compelling and catalogued.
• Report on bid activity levels and results for Sales & Marketing and Connect RTMs during internal meetings.
• Maintain membership of tender subscription services.
• Stay up-to‑date with public sector procurement legislation and advise the business as necessary.
• Stay abreast of company proposition and services, along with market and competitor developments.
• Assist in pitches, providing material and attending presentation team where appropriate.

Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent written communication skills.
• Analytical ability to shape a solution to meet clients’ dilemmas.
• Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain good relationships across the Group and with prospective clients.
• Very proficient in MS Office, especially Word; ability in InDesign is desirable.
• Excellent time‑management skills to manage bids simultaneously to deadlines.
• Flexible approach to workload, managing peaks and troughs in the bid pipeline and providing ad‑hoc support in other areas as required.
• Good understanding of company proposition and competitor awareness to develop winning solutions.

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