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Bid Manager
August 3, 2018 | Comments Off on Bid Manager
Salary Range: Competitive salary plus full package including up to 7.5% matched pension (totalling 15%), up to 10% off new Kier homes, two competitive share schemes and multiple retail rewards
Location: Within 1 hours' commute of Plymouth with travel to Truro and surround region
Duration: Permanent
Kier Construction Western & Wales is looking to recruit a Bid Manager to join the for Pre-Construction team. The successful post-holder will contribute to the planned and sustained business growth through the production of client bespoke bid proposals.
Key responsibilities:
- Assemble a bid team with the relevant knowledge and skills to prepare a winning bid
- Follow the agreed bid management procedures and ensure they are implemented at each stage of the bid process
- Manage the bid qualification process for new opportunities
- Chair Bid Kick off meetings, solution development and mid bid meetings
- Manage virtual bid teams and inputs from a variety of stakeholders, ensuring they are fully briefed and understanding the client bid requirements/key deliverables and develop a win plan for each opportunity
- Attend feedback / debrief sessions with client on all bids.
- Manage the clarification process with the client including making sure the bid team are kept fully up to date with clarifications/document changes etc.
- Support teams to prepare for site visits and interviews including presentations and briefing on the team on the Bid Promises
- Ownership of the bid programme and process from inception through to submission and thereafter where appropriate.
- Co-ordinate tender queries/amendments, assessing impacts and advising the bid team
Knowledge, experience and skills:
- The jobholder needs to have a background in a similar services type environment, or obtained a high level of education in relevant subjects, or be willing to undertake training both internal and external to the company. Have a good understanding of the company, its products, and its organisation both geographical and structural.
- An excellent project / bid manager
- A high level of IT skills in Word, InDesign and to a degree Excel
- A high level of written English and report writing and/ or bid writing skills
- An excellent communicator
- Must be prepared to spend time away from home overnight
- Previous experience in high level bid writing and production
- Commercial sector focussed experience
- Proactive nature with an ability to show initiative
- A good understanding of Kier, its other products outside of the facilities services range, its organisation both geographical and structural would be highly beneficial.
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