Bid Manager in Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom |
GBP £450 to £500 per day |
Contract
Bid Manager - Rail
Location: Birmingham
Rate: £450 - 500 per day (depending on experience)
Duration: 6 months
My client is currently looking for a Bid Manager to join their team out of the Birmingham area. The ideal Bid Manager will come on board and be a key member of the Bids/Tendering department, working closely with all disciplines to help win and deliver successful bids.
The Bid Manager's responsibilities will be:
- 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 £15m.
- 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
- Involvement in pre and post bid submission negotiations with the client encompassing technical, financial and commercial considerations, acting as the client single point of contact in relation to bids.
- Production and delivery of presentations (internal and external to the client) up to management level
- Responsible for transferring knowledge from the tendering team to the Delivery team, verifying the tender and achieving scope stability and handover to Delivery
- Accurate management of bid budgets, and ensuring company policies and procedures (including quality assurance) as suitably followed, striking the right balance between governance and cost efficiency
The Bid Manager's Requirements:
- Able to manage the delivery of multiple small and medium sized bids through corporate governance procedures, including parallel approval work streams (e.g. financial, technical, commercial etc.)
- Some bid management experience from an engineering project based business with experience leading bids in excess of £5m, and managing bid budgets in excess of £100k
- Possess a good understanding of the way in which rail 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.
- Has previous experience of working on infrastructure project bids, ideally rail
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