Bid Team Manager

We are currently looking for a Bid Team Manager to work a 3 month contract for an IT provider client of ours to look after their bid team whilst the permanent manager is on a period of leave. The role would be looking after a team of 3 bid managers and 1 bid administrator.

The scope of the role is as follows:

• Setting clear daily direction for the bid team.
• Identifying opportunities for bid submissions and raising them with the bid management team.
• Conducting research and brainstorming key points to include in the bid.
• Crafting persuasive and detailed proposals.
• Performing risk assessments and addressing concerns of clients and company staff.
• Ensuring all deadlines are met.
• Liaising with suppliers, vendors, and subcontractors.
• Keeping track of all costs and managing budgets.
• Working closely with project managers, design managers, estimators, and senior personnel.
• Conducting team briefings once bids have been secured.
• Supporting the team with day to day bids.

In addition to the above the client would welcome input from the contractor in terms of how the department is run and offer solutions on how they can improve in areas such as content libraries, internal processes, AI optimisation, time management, documentation, etc. It is anticipated the role will be 75% leading the team & supporting bids and 25% team development/process improvement.

The client has offices in the South of England, Yorkshire and Scotland but this role can be fully remote.

To be successful in this role we require the contractor to have experience of running a bid team and have some form of IT category experience (such as cloud services, Microsoft Services/packages, data warehousing, etc.

As the client base is predominantly in the public sector we would prefer candidates to also have worked in the public sector previously.

We are looking for an immediate start on this and the contract will run for around 3 months.

To apply, please send your CV to Stuart at Value Match who are acting as a recruitment business for this role.