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Bid Manager

Nuneaton
3 months ago
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Location: Blended / remote working
Contract type: Full time, permanent
Salary: To £55,000 dependent upon experience, plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About the Role

As a Bid Manager at Unipart you will lead and manage a wide variety of warehousing and transport tender opportunities across multiple sectors, engaging with dynamic and forward-thinking colleagues from across the entire organisation to deliver vibrant bid-winning proposals. 

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

Be accountable for the allocated response to all public and private tenders and proposals
Lead the ‘virtual bid team’ within each sector through the defined UL Bid Management process. This will comprise multiple work streams including: Business Development, Operations, Solution Design, Project Management, Finance, IT, HR and Commercial
Write and design articulate, concise, and customer-centric proposals, presentations, and other documents as required
Manage the end-to end production of bid documentation and ensure that all proposals are completed on time and comply fully with the customer specification and requirements
Facilitate Value Proposition sessions, to ensure customer-centric and rationalised win strategies are developed and integrated into submission documents
Lead the qualification and sign-off processes, ensuring we are pursuing and responding to the correct business opportunities
Track and manage key outputs, actions and clarifications throughout the bid process
Lead tender review meetings to drive collaborative sessions with the ‘virtual’ bid team
Ensure a high quality and customer-centric look and feel of all proposal documents
Work with the sector team and key stakeholders to develop sector, industry and customer insight; including competitor insight to support Unipart’s Challenger selling strategy
Work with the wider UL Bid Management Team to improve processes on an ongoing basis
Act as an ambassador for Bid management practices across the sector and wider Unipart business

About You

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

Strong bid management experience in the public and private sector
The ability to confidently and persuasively write to a high level
Articulate, with strong verbal and presentation skills
A proficient user of Microsoft Office, in particular PowerPoint and Word
Experience operating at a senior level and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders
Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and manage resources/output timelines
Used to working under pressure and to challenging deadlines with energy and passion, and will have the flexibility to deal with change
Experience in the field of supply chain logistics and external bid training (for instance, Shipley or APMP would be advantageous)

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies.  We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales.  As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience in the following: Bid Manager, Tenders Manager, Proposal Manager, Coordinator, Bid Coordinator, Proposal Specialist, RFP Manager, Bidding Specialist, Contracts Manager, Tender Coordinator, Business Development Manager, Pre-Sales Manager, Proposal Writer, Sales Operations Manager, Business Proposal Manager, etc.

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