Location:
Hybrid working. Primarily remote with occasional office travel when required (normally Nuneaton or Oxford).
Contract type:
Full time permanent
Hours:
40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Salary:
£45,000 to £50,000 dependent upon experience, plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Role
Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You will work for a company that places innovative solutions and employee-focused initiatives at the heart of everything we do.
Here at Unipart we don't just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's ‘From Gate to Great' training and development program.
As a Bid Manager at Unipart Logistics you will lead and manage a wide variety of warehousing and transport tender opportunities across multiple sectors, engaging with dynamic and forward-thinking colleagues from across the entire organisation to deliver vibrant bid-winning proposals.
As part of your key responsibilities you'll:
- Be accountable for the allocated response to public and private tenders and proposals, across any of our sectors.
- Manage and lead the ‘virtual Bid team' through the defined UL Bid Management process. This will include sector-specific experts across: Business Development, Operations, Solution Design, Project Management, Finance, IT, HR and Commercial.
- Write and design articulate, concise customer-centric proposals, presentations and other bidding collateral as required.
- Manage the end-to end production of bid documents and ensure that all proposals are completed on time and comply fully with the customer specification and requirements.
- Facilitate Value Proposition sessions, to ensure customer-centric and aligned win strategies are developed and integrated into submission documents.
- Support both the qualification and sign-off process for new business opportunities, ensuring compliance procedures are fully adhered to.
- Track and manage key outputs, actions and clarifications throughout the bid process.
- Lead Post Opportunity Review meetings to drive collaborative sessions with the bid team.
- Ensure a high quality, customer-centric, look and feel of all proposal documents.
- Support with ongoing development within the wider UL bid management team, collaboratively ensuring we deliver continuous improvement within our processes and procedures.
- Act as an ambassador for bid management practices across the sector and wider Unipart Logistics business.
About You
We'd love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you'd be able to perform well in this role!
- Strong bid management experience in the public and private sector
- The ability to confidently and persuasively write to a high level
- Articulate, with strong verbal and presentation skills
- A proficient user of Microsoft Office, in particular PowerPoint and Word
- Experience operating at a senior level and the ability to project manage multiple stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and manage resources/output timelines
- Used to working under pressure and to challenging deadlines with energy and passion, and will have the flexibility to deal with change
- Experience in the field of supply chain logistics and external bid training (for instance, APMP or Shipley would be advantageous)
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may have experience in the following: Bid Manager, Tenders Manager, Proposal Manager, Coordinator, Bid Coordinator, Proposal Specialist, RFP Manager, Bidding Specialist, Contracts Manager, Tender Coordinator, Business Development Manager, Pre-Sales Manager, Proposal Writer, Sales Operations Manager, Business Proposal Manager, etc.
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