Address
Form of work
SalaryBid Manager
Employment Type
Permanent
Hybrid
Car Allowance
Location
Warrington
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity for a BID Manager has become available with the chance of working alongside a well-established engineering consultancy, specialising in the development of key projects across the UK. The need for a BID Manager to support bid no bid process with preliminary reviews of enquiries, participate in / lead meetings, follow up actions to facilitate making appropriate bid decisions.
- If you have Knowledge of CRM (Salesforce) for assigned proposals in coordination with Sales / BD
- Do you experience with leading development of project time schedules?
- Would you like to become part of a key engineering company to help provide your support to drive the development of major projects?
If the answer is yes, then why not read on to find out more about this opportunity and get in touch now to avoid missing out!
Your duties and responsibilities will be:
• Act as Proposal Lead: accountable for all activities and to manage and drive all others to create a winning proposal
• Review all client documentation and allocate owner for review
• Attend site visits
• Manage all clarifications and raise / review where appropriate
• Liaise with client and record all client correspondence
• Review and summarise opportunity requirements (e.g. scope of work, timing, contract and commercial model)
• Manage development of win plan
• Review commercial requirements and manage commercial strategy development
• Develop and maintain action plan and manage input from others to ensure delivered on time to required quality
• Work with Estimating to define estimating strategy and reviews of estimate and pricing to confirm strategy met and appropriate due diligence applied
• Lead risk review process
• Lead development of submission documentation in line with strategy (technical, execution, commercial, contractual, executive summary, presentations), be responsible for specific documentation as appropriate to skills and experience. Review documents to ensure they are relevant, specific, on strategy and accurate
• Work with Pre-Contract Commercial to develop appropriate set of contractual comments
• Engage with Operations and other business areas as needed for support, input and validation
• Manage the review and approval requirements in accordance with Bilfinger governance
• Collaborate with Sales / Business Development (BD) for the proposal and towards the client
• Follow up submission to maintain engagement with the client, address clarifications and secure the work
• Handover and close out in accordance with governance requirements
• Internally report, provide feedback and promptly raise issues
You will have the following qualifications & experience:
- Relevant technical knowledge and experience - Required
- Experienced in creating / presenting documents for high impact communication - Required
- Experience of estimating, cost control or similar (creating, reviewing) - Highly beneficial
- Contractual experience (managing / reviewing contracts) - Highly beneficial
- Strong communication skills, both presentations and written proposals - Required
It’s great if you also have the following:
- Relevant experience in an operational deliver role in similar industries, scopes and scales of work (e.g. Project Manager, Site Manager, Contract Manager) - Typically 5+ years
- Experience in complex proposals:Typically 10+ years in proposal, 5+ years in lead role
- Working with multi-discipline team to help create
- Challenging that team to give a specific, relevant, high quality submission on time
- HNC / HND / Degree level preferred
- Project management, commercial, engineering / technical and other similar qualifications beneficial
Millbank Holdings Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and respects diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons who are eligible to live and work in the UK.
Millbank is proud to be a member of the ‘Disability Confident Scheme’. Millbank operates as an Employment Agency and Business.
