Bid Manager | Senior Manager in England

This is a superb opportunity to join Idox as a Senior Bid Manager. This is a highly networked and varied job which requires an ability to work independently with minimal supervision, managing multiple bids simultaneously at times, under pressure and to challenging deadlines. To do this, you will liaise closely with Idox Sales, Legal, Operations, Development and Support teams at all levels.

We are looking for an experienced Bid Manager who wants to work for a leading Public Sector software solutions provider, producing winning bids across a diverse range of software solutions. This means co-ordinating and producing compelling, high-quality, compliant responses to tenders.

As a Senior Bid Manager, you will manage the lifecycle of bids in accordance with Idox’s business compliance processes. The role includes:

• Identifying opportunities
• Supporting the qualification of bids
• Building and managing virtual teams
• Highlighting and mitigating risks
• Pre-populating standard responses
• Assigning and managing tasks
• Conducting final reviews
• Ensuring the bid complies with the Customer’s requirements and instructions
• Submitting on time

In order to ensure we create winning responses, the role also involves a significant amount of editing and reviewing, making sure the facts, content and tone meet the brief, are in keeping with the expectations of our customer and compelling to all types of potential evaluators.

With a varied product set across Regulatory Services and Geospatial Data, a career with Idox will allow you to build market knowledge across local and central government and the NHS. We offer a comprehensive benefits package and flexible working to support your wellbeing as well as your professional development. Flexible working can mean occasional out of hours working in a Bid role, but there will be opportunities to get your time back to suit you as part of our flexible approach to work-life balance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Assembling and managing virtual bid teams comprising of subject matter experts and stakeholders from various teams (e.g. sales, marketing, products, development, operations, finance, legal etc)
• Reviewing inputs from stakeholders and SMEs, editing responses to ensure they are engaging, meet customer evaluation criteria and differentiate Idox from competitors
• Delivery of compliant, high-quality tender responses within defined timeframes
• Supporting and coaching junior colleagues
• Adhering to Idox Information Security policies and protocols

Previous experience required:

• 5+ years as a Bid Manager, selling into the UK Public Sector
• Working understanding of PCR 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023
• Strong editing skills with a keen eye for detail
• Ability to tell a compelling story that influences evaluators
• Ability to work effectively as a remote team
• Ability to work to deadlines, prioritise tasks and manage multiple conflicting priorities with minimal supervision
• Strong MS Office and formatting skills (MS Word, Excel, PPT)
• Experience of working with proposal management software

Additional desirable qualities:

• Certified to APMP Foundation level
• Knowledge of regulatory software
• Experience of maintaining accurate bid reporting through corporate CRMs (e.g. Salesforce)
• Experience of producing presentations/videos/webinars for knowledge sharing internally

We employ around 660 staff in the UK and worldwide, including Europe, North America and Asia, so some travel to meet colleagues may be required.

We are ambitious in working together to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity. Idox is a company where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit, where we respect all our employees, customers and communities in which we live, work and are a part of.

We recruit and reward employees based on capability and performance – regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion or physical ability.

We recognise that for individuals, the opportunity to work flexibly can enable them to achieve a better work-life balance along with a greater sense of responsibility, ownership and control of their working life. During the pandemic, all our employees successfully transitioned to remote working and we are open to conversations on work patterns to suit our employees' needs.