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Job description / Role
The opportunity
This is an opportunity to grow your career with a market-leading multi-national project management consultancy.
The bid manager supports the business by planning and managing the bid process and delivering tender responses in line with the company’s brand, position and processes.
Translates win strategies and business objectives into smart, compelling, consistent, customer-focused, error-free documents and presentations, project managing activity through department bid plans and escalating risk to bid leader/board where required.
To conduct market research, competitor analysis to develop win strategies and bid plans, train and coach members of the team, bring ideas and fresh thinking to the department and to identify opportunities and leads.
Your responsibilities will include
Developing a bid strategy
• Analysing tender documentation to uncover what’s important.
• Undertaking client/ project/scope/stakeholders/competitor research to better understand opportunities.
• Managing project/bid, defining deliverables/deadlines and owning the bid plan.
• Planning projects, owning the bid programme, highlighting interdependencies, and taking the lead in monitoring/reporting on progress.
• Taking internal progress meetings, bid kick-off, booking regular progress meetings, setting the agendas and supporting the meetings.
• Taking external meetings and supporting the bid team through mid-bid / site/progress meetings.
• Planning the third-party/resource, managing inputs and outsourcing to support bid production, including external printing/outsourcing requirements.
Write the bid
• Taking a proactive role in the writing of standard content/CVs/project profiles - closing gaps where possible by interviewing/questioning relevant parts of the business.
• Taking the lead in writing compelling, factual, focused executive summaries.
Submit the bid
• Ensuring of all required reviews and adjudication/sign-offs are required in line with Mace Way.
• Taking the lead in the bid programme, ensuring review and completion dates are achieved to deliver a bid to the deadline.
Post tender activities
• Supporting and developing post-tender presentations in line with client requirements.
Continuous improvement
• Capturing all new content within bid content library (aftercare)
• Recording and sharing lessons learned/best practices.
Requirements
About you
• You have a relevant degree qualification.
• Ideally a member of APMP, CIM or another appropriate professional body.
• You have a strong understanding of the corporate real estate and infrastructure industry.
• You have the ability to analyse the RFP and draft a proposal in line with the client’s requirements.
• You have a strong commitment to service internal and external clients, proactive, positive, and organised.
• You are confident at communicating at all levels, have strong attention to detail and error-free delivery.
• You are digitally savvy especially in using Microsoft Office Suite, including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
• Can build lasting client relationships and provide support to strong, motivated teams.
• You have experience in bidding within a programme or project management equating quality and value with the individual client and be hungry to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Mace has to offer.
About the Company
Mace is an international consultancy and construction company that has delivered world class projects since 1990. Today we employ over 6,000 people across five global hubs in Europe, Middle East North Africa and India, North America, Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Four simple values guide our behaviour in our pursuit of a better way; Safety first - going home safe and well, Client focus - deliver on our promise, Create opportunity - for our people to excel, Integrity - always doing the right thing. We aim to attract the best and brightest people, whatever their background, to bring new perspectives to some of the most complex and inspiring projects around the world.
We support our people who are aiming to achieve an academic or professional qualification that will help them develop personally and deliver to the highest standard for our clients. At Mace you can deepen your knowledge, expand your skills and define your own path.