At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the bid process for PPE contracts and collaborate with sales teams.
- Company: Join RS Safety Solutions, the UK's top PPE supplier in a growing industry.
- Benefits: Hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a fast-paced environment while developing your negotiation skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in PPE bidding and strong team collaboration skills required.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Location: Hybrid Melton
Overview: This new role supports the Safety Solutions business during a period of growth. RS Safety Solutions, part of RS Group, is the UK's leading supplier of PPE, safety, and hygiene products to the food manufacturing industry.
What you will be doing:
- As a bid manager, you will consult and lead our commercial sales teams through the tendering process, ensuring we bid for contracts we can win, are qualified, and present a compelling, commercially articulate proposal.
- You will work closely with other team members and wider business functions, building a solid internal network, ensuring compliance with customer and RS requirements while highlighting the company value proposition, addressing customer issues and pain points, and meeting tender response deadlines.
Qualifications:
- PPE Bidding Experience
- A strong team player, self-driven, with a high personal commitment
- Ability to influence at all levels within our and the customer’s organisation
- Demonstrable commercial reasoning skills
- Desire and drive to work in an ever evolving, fast paced environment
- Highly motivated with probing tenacity to achieve and exceed objectives
- Exceptional negotiation, persuasion and judgment skills
- Ability to flex and adapt tactics in response to changes to internal business priorities and market dynamics
- Numerate and literate with a strong ability to analyse, diagnose and implement business improvement plans
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable Planning, Time Management and Prioritisation skills
- IT literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft office
- Experience and understanding of how to extract maximum value from an MRO/PPE contract and to deliver maximum value to the customer, and ability to apply that knowledge to transition to a solutions-led model
- Experience and understanding of the end-to-end Corporate Sales Process/Bid and Tenders process
- Strong presentation skills
We think you need these skills to ace PPE Bid Manager
PPE Bidding Experience
Commercial Reasoning Skills
Negotiation Skills
Persuasion Skills
Judgment Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Written Communication Skills
