Job title: Interim Bids Manager - Engineering
Job location: Birmingham
Day Rate: Negotiable DOE

I am currently recruiting for a Bids Manager to join a client based in Birmingham. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and motivating the Bids team. Responsible for all aspects of winning bids to secure future work. Defining winning bid strategies including gap analysis against current business capability, skill and experience.

The business is a leader in railway rolling stock engineering, enhancement and systems integration and provides high quality turnkey project and consultancy services to maximise vehicle utilisation and performance. With excellent rail engineering, production and project management skills; the company operates from design and engineering offices and from a range of project facilities to suit vehicle and fleet locations.

Required Skills and Experience

-Engineering/business qualification - desirable.
-Strong commercial capability.
-High level of rolling stock and systems knowledge.
-Significant industry experience within a Rail Engineering & Design Environment.
-Experience within a technical, engineering and design bid environment.
-Good understanding of contract law.
-Full working knowledge of Project phases and timelines.
-Excellent working knowledge of MS Word Power Point, Project and Excel.
-Excellent working knowledge of MS Power Point, Project, Word and Excel.
-Very strong spreadsheet capabilities.
-Experience of interaction at all levels within the business, customer and supplier base.
-Good knowledge of Project phases and timelines.
-Appreciation of working in a standards based industry.
-Good knowledge of business system, processes and capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

-Actively manage the Opportunity Pipeline of the business and coordinate the requirements of the opportunities with the functional teams for timing, strategy, resource and development of capabilities. To ensure that bid submissions are created in line with both locally and where required by Group and its defined approval procedures, including the incorporation of the target financial cash flow and Gross Margin levels (as agreed during the bid Go/No-Go and approvals process)
-To ensure that all PQQ's, ITT's and bids are subjected to a continuous Go/No-Go process.
-To ensure that all bid submissions made are fully mandated both locally and where required by Group and its defined procedures, including the incorporation of the target financial cash flow and Gross Margin levels (as agreed during the bid Go/No-Go and approvals process)
-Lead, nurture and adapt the Bids team to support the achievement of the company strategy.
-Market awareness for new opportunities and the compilation of information to support Go No-Go decisions.
-Agreement of commercial inputs required to make a successful tender submission to the customer's requirements.
-Responsible for the financial and commercial aspects of each tender.

Contact Information:
Email: <email address removed>
Phone: <phone number removed>

Please note due to the volume of applications, we can only commit to contact those candidates we deem suitable for the position. However, we may retain your details and contact you in the future should suitable positions arise.
Please note the above job specification could be subject to change as agreed with our client.