Job Title: Senior Bid Manager

Location: Chippenham Duration: 6 months contract Rate: £450-£550/day

Role Definition

A senior member of the Bids and Tendering department, working closely with all disciplines within the team and the wider business, to ensure delivery of high quality, winning bids, and ensuring these are effectively mobilised to the project delivery team.

The Bids and Tendering function is a centralised bidding team that is responsible for the delivery of all bids for our clients UK business, ensuring appropriate levels of governance and accuracy is applied to a winning strategy.

Key Accountabilities

·Management of the creation of winning tenders through full bid lifecycle from Bid/No-Bid through to customer negotiation and Contract Award, for bids ranging from £100k up to £500m.

·Definition and implementation of winning bid strategies ensuring a breakdown of tender requirements and coordination of all technical, commercial and financial aspects of the estimation and proposal creation process (including pricing structures, subcontract partnerships etc.)

·Preparation, review and coordination of compelling tender documentation ensuring high levels of consistency and quality, that adequately captures our offer, provides an accurate baseline for a future project, incorporates lessons learned, and mitigates company risks

·Preparation of all review meeting materials and coordination of the close-out of all actions where required for individual tenders

·Provision of leadership to the tender team and allocated business resources, influencing and negotiating with people at all levels, including providing progress reports to management.

Essential:

·Able to manage the delivery of multiple bids through corporate governance procedures, including parallel approval workstreams (e.g. financial, technical, commercial etc.)

·Significant bid management experience from an engineering project based business, in a regulated industry, with experience leading bids in excess of £50m, and managing bid budgets in excess of £1m

·Possess a good understanding of the way in which railway-signalling projects are managed and delivered in order to influence, monitor and challenge every aspect of the bid i.e. project management, finance, engineering, planning, delivery and commercial inputs.

·Commercially astute, and able to structure a bid to present the offer in the best light whilst minimising risk to the business

·Possesses sufficient management experience (min. 5 years) and stature to operate at the same level as snr project managers and snr business managers, in order to provide appropriate leadership to tender teams

·Strong customer focus, able to manage complex negotiations with the client as appropriate.

·Matrix management experience in leading teams greater than 20 people, motivating and directing team members to a shared goal

If you are looking for an opportunity to join a company which is growing – Contact us now on <phone number removed> !! To apply for this position contact Nathan Kemp by emailing your C.V to na t h a n . k e m p @ vital. uk. com

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