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Details

• Location CB10 1NY
• Position Bid Manager (Defence & Security)
• Placement Permanent

About the position

We are looking to hire an experienced Bid Manager to support our sales teams, focussing on Defence & Security. This is a customer-facing role requiring close collaboration with sales, engineering and client teams to both manage and coordinate the full bid lifecycle process.

Role

• Full time role, reporting to Head of Defence Sales
• Office based in Great Chesterford, Essex.
• Hybrid working environment with minimum of 3 days in the office.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate the full lifecycle of bids, from opportunity qualification through to proposal submission, including support to contract negotiation and acceptance.
• Own the bid management process and drive its ongoing development within the business.
• Lead regular bid review meetings, to assign tasks, set timescales, and define deliverables.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across the CTO Office, Engineering teams, legal counsel, and others to gather input
• Prepare and deliver compelling bid content and documentation aligned with customer requirements, including contribution to proposal content, such as project plans.
• Management of government frameworks, including regular framework reviews to identify latest opportunities
• Ownership and management of the CRM tool (Hubspot) to include monthly reporting against sales targets.
• Liaise with legal team on bid information to enable legal review of terms and conditions (TsCs).
• Support subcontractor management for collaboration bids.
• Accept orders and ensure successful handover to the project managers, from proposal acceptance to project execution.
• Liaise with Engineering and Project Management teams to identify weekly resource requirements.

The Person

• Experience in government procurement as well as business to business bidding.
• Several years’ bidding in a technical services environment predominantly in Defence.
• A degree in electronics, physics or a similar discipline
• Experience of preparing commercial and technical bid or proposal documents
• Experience of client contact
• A high energy level, and a self-starter
• Be comfortable with challenge and uncertainty

No agencies please. Recruiting partners will be contacted directly by the HR team when support is needed.

Details

• Location CB10 1NY
• Position Bid Manager (Defence & Security)