SANDBOX is a strategic brand and marketing partner dedicated to elevating businesses and supporting sustainable growth. The team focuses on amplifying brand identity, strengthening digital presence, and building meaningful, long-term connections with target audiences. Services span branding, websites, marketing campaigns, and work-winning tenders, creating cohesive and engaging brand journeys for clients and their customers. With global reach and roots in Nottingham, SANDBOX has a proven history of empowering ambitious businesses to realise their full potential.
Role Description
The Operations Manager – Bidding is a full-time, hybrid role based in Nottingham, with flexibility for some work from home. This role is responsible for managing and coordinating SANDBOX’s portfolio of client bids, acting as the vital link between tenders, clients and our in-house studio to make sure every submission is high quality and delivered on time. Day-to-day responsibilities include horizon scanning and pipeline management, setting up bid controls and governance, resourcing bid teams from internal and external talent, and managing individual bids end to end against agreed timelines. The Operations Manager will brief and work closely with our studio on bid graphics and document production, chair client kick-offs and reviews, and track effort and cost against bid budgets, including quotes and invoices. The role involves attending meetings and workshops at our Nottingham studio and client locations across the UK, building trusted client relationships, and helping the bids team keep improving its processes, including through the smart use of AI tools.
Qualifications
- In-depth understanding of bidding best practice and the key stages of the bid lifecycle.
- Strong bid and project management skills, with the ability to keep multiple bids, people and deadlines on track at once.
- Experience creating bid time plans, estimating effort and managing quotes, budgets and invoices.
- Confidence to facilitate and chair workshops, kick-offs, bid meetings and reviews.
- Excellent relationship-building skills, with a natural ability to earn client trust and spot opportunities to expand scope.
- Proficiency in Microsoft and Adobe packages, plus an appetite for using AI to speed up processes.
- Highly organised and diligent, with strong attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure across competing deadlines.
- A genuine love of competitive bidding, and experience in agency, consultancy or professional services environments is highly beneficial.
Contact us hello@sandbox-studios.co.uk for more info.
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Operations Manager - Bidding in Nottingham employer: SANDBOX
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