The Bid Manager runs our presales activity in delivering compelling submissions to our future clients.
What you'll be doing
- Contract and governance for Reed Talent Solutions associates, as well as governance for all suppliers providing resources to projects
- Provide associate support, act as a first point of contact for all contract and time-sheet queries and maintenance of contractor and supplier records to ensure data accuracy
- Audit and compliance for all accounts to ensure a high level of compliance is met.
- Liaise with the PMO, resource managers, account owners and other stakeholders to manage key business requirements
- Maintain good process and quality of documentation to associates and the business
- Manage relationships with third party suppliers and ensure that outsourced screening service providers consistently meet their service level agreements
- Evaluate and manage requests for limited company exceptions
- To manage the process around expenses, insurance and contract queries and ensure escalations are managed where risks occur up to director level
- Manage expectations of account owners regarding risks to the business as a whole
- Keep an accurate risk and issues log
- Liaising with internal and external contact and third-party suppliers to ensure continuity of service, e.g., screening and umbrella companies alongside managed service and resourcing departments
- Providing professional service/support to internal stakeholders for all new and existing associates
- Responding to a range of queries in a timely fashion, channelling to the most appropriate area as and when required
Key relationships
- Current and future Reed clients
- Internal account stakeholders
- Reed leadership team
- Client compliance teams
- Support supplier network
- Reed group compliance teams
- External suppliers for screening and compliance services
Experience:
- 3 years or plus in bid management/presales
- Hands on experience of designing and composing sales submissions
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight timescales
- Ability to multi-task, working on several projects at any given time
- Ability to assimilate sales strategies and offerings to market
- Experience of leading workshops to establish win themes
- Proactive with the willingness to meet customer requirements
- Experience of shaping bids, identifying win themes, SWOT analysis
- Excellent standard of written English