Holt Executive are currently partnering with a global leading technology business who are currently expanding their Commercial Sales function.
Our partner is currently looking to recruit a Bid Manager to be responsible for the management, production, approval and submission of customer proposals and bid responses to support the Sales Team. The Bid Manager will liaise with subject matter experts across one of our partners growing divisions to form compelling and compliant bid responses that meet the customer requirements. The Bid Manager will work closely with the lead Opportunity Owner and Operations Team to ensure all proposals are fully resourced and meet customer deadlines.
Key responsibilities for the Bid Manager:
* The primary responsibility of the bid manager role is to create compelling, consistent and compliant response documents that meet the customer requirements.
* The Bid Manager will be responsible for developing, maintaining and reviewing the central Bid Library on the Seismic Content Management tool by identifying re-usable text from existing bids.
* The Bid Manager will provide a formal review point of text received from authors and provide guidance to assist in the development of compelling, consistent and compliant responses.
* The Bid Manager will review the executive summary/introduction to ensure that it meets customer and our partners standards, providing advice where required to aid development.
* The Bid Manager will provide ad hoc support to the Sales team to ensure we provide consistent contact points at all stages of the procurement cycle.
* In addition, the Bid Manager will support the Sales Enablement Director in the production of reporting for the Sales Director, Board Reports as well as Sales Team meetings including quarterly updates and kick off meetings.
Key Experience and knowledge required for the Bid Manager position:
* Good understanding of IT services business with the ability to review an IT Services proposition
* Good interpersonal skills / effective communication skills
* Good understanding of MS Office product suite (especially MS Excel)
* Experience of Project Management, Planning and Control, particularly in a bid environment
* Able to achieve results whilst making efficient use of resources.
* Demonstrable problem solving skills and original thought approach to decision making
* Experience of Customer Relationships (internal and external) and customer facing skills.
* Management and organisation skills, with excellent time management and the ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
* Self-motivated and self-managing in order to work on his / her own initiative and to be flexible in working outside the Job Description
* Leadership and People Management of virtual teams to manage, motivate, and control staff (who may have differing experience levels of bidding) assigned to each bid, who are not necessarily full time on one bid
* Decision Making and Problem Solving
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