Description
SC Cleared Bid Manager
Milton Keynes
4 Months +
Government
£425-£450 Per day.
SC Cleared Bid Manager required urgently in Milton Keynes on a initial 4 Month contract. The role holder will be responsible for the establishment of a temporary bid team drawn from appropriate disciplines from within the business, formulating and project managing the bid plan and proposal document, to achieve a compliant proposal within a defined timescale and commercial process procedures. You will be an experienced Bid Manager with live and current SC or DV clearance.
Experience and skills required
Essential:
- Experienced Bid Manager - Demonstrable Experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of managing multi-disciplinary virtual teams
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Experience of managing bids/proposals within one of the following, Construction, Security or Professional Services industries
Desirable:
- Bid Management qualification (Shipley or equivalent training) preferred but not essential
- Understanding of Central Government
Role
- Understand Commercial strategy and incorporate as required within Customer strategy papers and or proposal submissions.
- Exercise bid project management procedures and assure compliance with prevailing commercial processes from bid consideration through to proposal outcome.
- Provision of expertise and guidance to the temporary bid team to instill an understanding of the procedures/timescales involved in pulling together a proposal and maintaining/documenting commercial process decisions.
- Leading colleagues and working with them to ensure customer requirements are specific, defined and understood and or re-shape them as necessary to achieve that. Ensuring that the resulting proposal matches customer requirements, with risks and liabilities identified, mitigated and priced within the proposal.
- Review and or assist with cost and pricing of each proposal to ensure that all required activities/risks have been taken into account, that the overall planned margin is signed off by the relevant Customer Business Director and that the proposal itself is signed off via the governance process prior to release.
- Lead on proposal reviews sessions, and be prepared and able to respond to strong challenge from participants up to and including the Chief Executive, Finance Director, Business Unit Director etc. depending on submission value.
- Responsible for setting bid budgets, approving all time and activities associated with compiling each bid, monitoring proposal spend against individual bid budgets.
- Define and manage the wider bid team to achieve key milestones in order to arrive at a successful submission.
- Chair bid kick-off meetings, draw up and issue bid plans to bid team members and ensure that timeframes are realistic for all involved.
- Monitor progress against plan, liaise with bid team members to ensure submissions completed on time and in correct format
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