AddressPick Everard are looking for a knowledgeable Bid Manager to join our flourishing team in Leicester.
Our Bid Team is responsible for tender management across our 15 offices and over 650 staff. The new Bid Manager will play an important role in helping Pick Everard to achieve its strategic growth targets - helping the practice to create high quality, successful tender responses.
The role will offer you end to end management of some of our most important bids and allow you to strategically drive the content in them. We are a multi-disciplinary business offering design and management services to our clients, so you can expect to be interacting with architects, engineers, surveyors and project managers. These specialists are heavily bought into the bid process and will give you the time and engagement to support your bids.
This role will suit an ambitious, driven individual, who is looking to take the next important step forward in their bidding career.
You will be supported in your journey every step of the way, by our senior leadership team, and the wider team of collaborative, positive, like-minded Bid professionals.
This role will suit an individual who has the drive, knowledge and ability to succeed in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Do you have strong experience within a bidding team, managing multiple, complex bids?
Do you want to work as part of a friendly, knowledgeable and supportive team?
Are you looking to take a step up in your career, to work as part of a thriving, multi-disciplinary, national consultancy?
If you answered yes to the above questions, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsibility for excellent understanding of the complete internal bid management process and systems
- Manage allocated bids, including implementing the Bids and Proposals Procedure, collating and checking content and bid team inputs
- Recognise the need for supply chain input and oversee the progression
- Accurately assess timescales and estimate the resources required to execute a proposal and develop/manage proposal strategies
- Identify appropriate bid writers and technical contributors to support bids
- Design and complete storyboards and bid plans and brief relevant contributors
- Actively research gaps in intelligence and manage appropriate plans
- Write technical and non-technical bid responses
- Understand fully the review process and implement on tenders
- Contribute to the improvement of the bid process within Pick Everard
