Bid Manager

We are one of the market's fastest growing business transformation consultancies, with a pedigree of successfully engaging and delivering some of the largest and most complex transformation programme globally, enabled by SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce etc

We partner with large international businesses, support them on their transformation journeys, defining IT strategies and designing future operating models. We are currently growing rapidly and are looking for a Bid Writer/Manager to join our leadership team on the next phase of our mission.

You will have had a successful career to date within bid writing and editing and are looking to continue to grow and be challenged within a new environment offering you the chance to shape your role within a young and dynamic company.

We are looking for someone who has strong experience in bid writing and editing within a consulting environment to manage the quality of submissions and actively work with our business unit leads to develop quality proposals and bids. You will be able to assess technical bid requirements and assist the business unit lead to shape our proposals. You will ensure the formal bid process is followed, providing recommendations for continuous improvement. You will conceptualise and create visual elements to help tell the story, whilst also contributing to the look and the feel' of our offering. You'll also support creation of clear and effective customer presentations and provide creative ideas and initiatives for bids.

What You'll Do as a Bid Writer/Manager

• Lead and manage in all aspects of proposal creation, management and submission including preparation, co-ordination, consistency, quality, compliance and completeness
• Manage proposal inputs and reviews against the bid schedule, ensure the winning strategy and win themes are articulated effectively throughout the bid response
• Lead the proposal kick off providing the authors and reviewers with clear instructions, timelines and templates
• Support the capture and bid teams in identifying win strategies, proposal solution design, and management of tender clarification logs
• Support proposal authors in creating comprehensive responses in line with proposal writing best practice (4-box approach, etc.), ensuring consistency throughout the proposal document
• Manage the proposal storyboards, section templates and undertake the final formatting and editing
• Compiling and creating bespoke high quality bid responses with the aim of securing business tenders within the team
• Preparation of high-quality responses for pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQ's), Invitation to tender (ITT's) and case studies
• Ensure that win themes are articulated in a way to meet or exceed clients' requirements
• Identify and re-work existing pre-written content where relevant

About You

You are highly motivated, a self-starter (we won't be micro-managing you!), confident and a genuine team player, strong communicator with a personable demeaner and comfortable in changing environments. You are organised, focused and outcome oriented, having proven experience in delivering complex technology enabled transformation programmes. You are honest, trustworthy and have high levels of integrity a expect the same from us.

What we can offer

• Hybrid role (Home Office, Client Office, Our Offices)
• Competitive basic & bonus scheme, generous holidays, pension contributions, personal development with investment in recognised training.

Culture & Ethics

We achieve our successes through teamwork and respect for our colleagues, clients, and the world around us. We look for positive people to join our team, who are ambitious and want to progress whilst being challenged, no day is the same, we take that head-on and embrace the opportunity to consistently learn. We understand the importance of employee wellbeing, so we encourage a positive life balance, and we also like to have some fun along the way.