Bid Manager

A fantastic opportunity has come up to take on the responsibility of a bid team within a well-known organisation in the healthcare sector. If you’ve managed a team (of any size, in or out of bids) and have at least 2 years bid management experience, this could be the perfect role for you! This is a full time, permanent role, based in Runcorn. Hybrid working options are available. The salary is £40,000 (possibly slightly more) with a bonus of around £7,000 (performance related based on agreed targets with your line manager).

Key Responsibilities

• Project manage the tender process for all business streams and work closely with the senior sales and marketing management team to complete tender submissions.
• Review the Contracts Advance tracker report on a daily basis as an additional check to ensure all potential opportunities are captured.
• To ensure a high standard and consistent approach is taken with all tenders in order to improve tender success.
• Cover bid writing responsibilities, including drafting of responses, meeting stakeholders and updating responses, where volume of submissions outweighs capacity for Bid Writer resource.
• Line manage a team of Associate Contracts Co-ordinators, Contracts Co-ordinators and Bid Writers to ensure consistent delivery of all accountabilities to all stakeholders.
• Hold regular 1-to-1 meetings with each team member to assess and manage individual performance.
• Manage team resource to ensure sufficient capacity within the team at all times (incl holidays, sickness).
• To ensure the systems and processes are in place to ensure pricing accuracy for all customers.
• Daily monitoring of automated SAP reports and investigation of any issues identified / flagged by team members.
• To monitor daily reports and ensure to ensure Team have carried out the relevant due diligence.
• To ensure all standard supporting tender documentation is regularly reviewed for accuracy and correct representation of the business in order to increase tender success.
• Review submissions with the Bid Writer and/or appropriate Co-ordinator prior to submission to ensure all required information is included and accurate.
• Conduct a thorough review of the tender outcome against the scoring criteria, updating information held on file and highlighting areas of concern (low scoring) to the business via the risk register.
• Work closely with the business area to ascertain whether we tolerate, treat, transfer or terminate the risk identified.

Requirements

• Previous team management experience essential (in or out of bids)
• Minimum of 2 years bid management experience
• Previous public sector bidding experience, particularly NHS would be an advantage

How to apply

To apply for this role or to find out more information, please send a CV to Hayley Wood at Bid Recruitment. If you are seeking a career move but this position is not right for you please browse the other vacancies on our website. We are specialists in Bid Recruitment, Marketing Recruitment and Business Development Recruitment and have a range of posts available. We also welcome speculative applications.