Bid Manager
1 Days Old
About The Role
We are seeking an experienced Bid Manager to lead the end-to-end bid and tender response process. This pivotal role involves setting up a centralised product cataloguing system, deploying AI tools to support tender response writing, and establishing a scalable, efficient bid function for our regional sales team. The ideal candidate will combine strong project management and writing skills with a deep understanding of commercial bid processes ideally within B2B organisations.
The Bid Manager vacancy is a hybrid position, with a couple of days each working from our Head Office in Hull.
Key responsibilities include:
- Bid Management
- Supporting via coordination and managing the lifecycle of tenders, proposals, and framework submissions across multiple regions
- Defining bid strategies in collaboration with Sales, Procurement, and Product teams
- Establishing and managing bid timelines, ensuring timely and high-quality submissions
- Supporting via coordination and managing the lifecycle of tenders, proposals, and framework submissions across multiple regions
- Centralised Catalogue Setup
- Designing and implementing a centralised digital product catalogue system to standardise product descriptions, pricing, and specifications
- Collaborating with Product, Supply Chain, and IT teams to ensure catalogue accuracy, scalability, and integration with sales tools and procurement platforms
- Designing and implementing a centralised digital product catalogue system to standardise product descriptions, pricing, and specifications
- AI-Supported Tender Writing
- Identifying, evaluating, and implementing AI-enabled content generation and knowledge management tools to enhance bid-writing productivity and quality
- Maintaining a library of reusable content and responses, structured to leverage AI-assisted search and writing functionality
- Identifying, evaluating, and implementing AI-enabled content generation and knowledge management tools to enhance bid-writing productivity and quality
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Acting as a central point of contact for all regional bid-related activity, ensuring effective communication with Sales, Technical teams, Legal, and Executive stakeholders
- Conducting post-bid reviews to refine processes and content
- Acting as a central point of contact for all regional bid-related activity, ensuring effective communication with Sales, Technical teams, Legal, and Executive stakeholders
- Governance & Compliance
- Ensuring compliance with tender instructions, regulatory requirements, and company policies
- Tracking and reporting bid outcomes, win/ loss ratios on tendering
- A competitive starting salary plus bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
- The ability to design and implement scalable bid and catalogue functions aligned with commercial goals
- Process-Driven, demonstrating rigor in managing structured bid processes and documentation workflows
- High levels of commercial acumen including understanding pricing, margins, customer procurement requirements, and value proposition development
- Technologically proficient and comfortable assessing and integrating AI tools, digital catalogues, and CRM/tender platforms
- An excellent communicator who is skilled in persuasive, concise writing tailored to procurement needs and evaluation scoring
- Strong cross-functional coordination experience with internal teams and external stakeholders
About Us
With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.
Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come.
Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best. #J-18808-Ljbffr
- Location:
- Kingston Upon Hull, England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £80,000 - £100,000
- Category:
- Management & Operations
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