Bid Manager
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16 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our aim at Made Tech is to use human-centred technology to improve our society. We believe putting people at the heart of designing building and delivering public services leads to better outcomes for everyone.
About the role
Reporting to the Head of Bids and Frameworks youll manage bids from early presales to proposal submission working as part of a dynamic enthusiastic and well-respected team that has a genuine passion for all things bids. As part of this exceptionally high-performing function youll coordinate your teams to produce winning responses to multimillion-pound tenders while developing your skills in an environment that champions continuous improvement and learning.
Youll benefit from mentorship by our Senior and Lead Bid Managers who will support you through increasingly complex opportunities as your experience grows. Beyond day-to-day bid delivery youll contribute to our active bid community of practice where youll find opportunities to practise and refine new skills: from process improvement and presenting to peer reviewing and cross-team collaboration.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of Made Techs most critical functions where youll be part of a collaborative team as committed to your development as we are to delivering winning bids.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with our Client Partners and Industry Directors forming a bid leadership team to drive opportunities forward.
- Ensure bids align with our ethos strengths and customer insight.
- Coordinate teams plan timelines and hold team members accountable for their contributions to each bid.
- Lead answer planning activities including designing running and facilitating bid workshops.
- Manage bid governance coordination and qualification processes including opportunity mailbox management.
- Write review and provide constructive feedback throughout the bid process supporting team members in producing high-quality written responses and presentations.
- Engage with the commercial components of our submissions.
- Take ownership of social value content and integration within bidding.
- Maintain and continuously improve bid content libraries.
- Manage smaller opportunities independently with support from senior colleagues on more complex bids.
- Actively contribute to our bid community of practice participating in bid cop sessions and team meet-ups.
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives applying lessons learnt to enhance our bidding practices.
Key measures
- Win rate
- Revenue versus spend
- Bid team and stakeholder feedback
- Response quality
- Client peer and partner feedback
Skills Knowledge & Expertise
The following skills will be assessed during the application process
- Experience in a bid or presales environment in any sector
- Direct experience of writing and reviewing proposals for new business
- Strong creative writing skills with an eye for detail
- Experience of coordinating teams
- An enthusiastic and effective communicator
- Empathy and the ability to build relationships quickly across teams and across the organisation.
- A proactive roll-your-sleeves-up manner with the ability to take ownership where problems emerge.
- A passion to learn and develop yourself alongside our wider processes
Desirable (not essential) skills and experience
- Experience in B2B technology services or business process outsourcing
- Experience working in the UK public sector
- An understanding of agile methodologies and digital transformation including user-centred design principles.
- Experience in planning and delivering successful workshops
- An understanding of social value initiatives and an ability to create and articulate them.
At this point we hope youre feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Even if you dont feel that you meet every single requirement we still encourage you to apply. Get in touch with our talent team if youd like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We are hiring for this role directly so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment agencies.
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We believe we can use tech to make public services better. We also believe this can happen best when our own team represents the society that actually uses the services we work on. Were collectively continuing to grow a culture that is happy healthy safe and inspiring for people of all backgrounds and experiences so we encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply for roles with us.
When you apply well put you in touch with a member of our talent team who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. Weve put together this blog as a resource to share more about reasonable adjustments and some examples of what this could include. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.
Job Benefits
Were committed to building a happy inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what its like working here from our blog where we talk about mental health communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).
Like many organisations we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music food and pets we also have 10 Slack channels dedicated to specific communities allies and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If youd like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.
Benefits
We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. Weve recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme Cycle to work scheme and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. Were also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Marketing
- Risk Management
- Adobe Acrobat
- Construction Estimating
- Microsoft Outlook
- Account Management
- Content Development
- Project Management
- Auto Estimating
- Proposal Writing
- Unity
- Contracts
About Company
We provide Digital, Data and Technology services to help organisations make a positive impact – fast.
