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Bid Manager

London
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Bid Manager

We are seeking an experienced Bid Manager leading the end-to-end bid process, ensuring high-quality, compliant, and competitive proposals aligned with company and Project strategy. Your main and unique tender is a complex, UK government programme, Multi-partners, Industrial and IT, highly visible, high value contract, highly strategic project tender for our Veridos group. You shall lead and collaborate with a large international team (>15) spread out over Europe, including a local dedicated team in UK, and Proposal Managers outside UK.

Main Responsibilities

Pre-Sales Support

  • Analysis of Customer Requirements and mapping to possible solution offering
  • Support of pre-acquisition phase with information to determine necessary budgets
  • Preparing the upcoming proposal phase (opportunity shaping)

Tender, Offer and Bid Evaluation

  • Analysis of tender/customer requirements and documentation
  • Evaluation of Tender Documents together with the customer solutions department and with all necessary internal interfaces (e.g. Business Lines)
  • Evaluation of a draft concept together with the customer solutions department
  • Determine the a-priori visible risk profile for bid decision
  • Preparation of Bid decision for Bid Board Meetings; i.e. allocation of resource for establishing a working team, alignment with business lines and sales, etc…
  • Prepare and track of Proposal Planning and organization of Proposal, Kickoff with Core Team

Proposal Preparation

  • Project Lead during Proposal Process, securing the quality of the proposal and the required approvals in time
  • Creation of the bid documents including calculation, in time and budget of the proposal phase, in collaboration with the Finance team
  • Involvement of the required experts from the Business Lines for the specific input, as well as the Pre-Sales Managers for Solutions experts for the holistic solution
  • Keep and track the proposal, commercial budget and timeline of the proposal phase

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Proposal Calculation

  • Owns and runs all deal calculations as the financial calculation lead
  • Implements of deal specific price model reflecting the customer demands and price strategy developed by sales aiming at a deliverable, profitable and feasible bid
  • Perform a solution-to-cost analysis, comprised of pricing a solution using market benchmark data
  • Collaborate with Sales, Program Managers, Proposal Managers, Pre-Sales Managers, Solution Architect and Executive leadership on deal shaping activities for very large opportunities
  • Support Strategic Procurement in final contract negotiations with all subcontractors / suppliers in coordination with the relevant internal interfaces

Approval Process

  • Prepares together with the Sales Manager, Commercial Manager and assigned Project Controller the Approval Slides (financials, cash-flow, risk, etc.) for the Management Board as well as the Shareholders Decision Meetings
  • Support presentation of approval slides to Management Board together with Sales Manager
  • Ensures Signatories are according to Signature Guideline

Your Profile

Overall Experience Level

  • 10+ years of professional experience in Bid Management
  • Experience in Public tender in UK is highly required
  • Experience with international team is a serious plus
  • Experience with security industry

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Skills & Competencies

Bid Manager Skills

  • Visualize the big picture of a complete project and focus on the small details
  • Understand technical information to facilitate brainstorming and reviews
  • Balance the needs of the potential customer and business setup of the proposal with available in-house resources
  • Schedule tasks with different contributors with respect of the proposal project plan
  • Be able to manage a diverse team of personnel from different departments, and locations
  • Continuously train team members who have never participated in proposal development
  • Be able to work in Team and cluster

Working Conditions

  • Mix: Company Office and Remote working possible
  • Ability to travel when required and necessary to UK offices, within UK and within Europe for professional purposes

$$ We are an equal opportunity employer! We promote diversity in all its forms and create an inclusive work environment, free from prejudice, discrimination and harassment, in which all employees feel a sense of belonging. We warmly welcome all applications regardless of gender, age, race or ethnic origin, social and cultural background, religion, disability and sexual orientation. $$ Monika Bhudia $$ monika.bhudia@gi-de.com $$ +44 (0) 2087996988 $$ https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=gieseckede&career_job_req_id=27512&career_ns=job_application

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Skills

Bid Management
Public Tender Management
Financial Calculation
Proposal Planning
Risk Profile Analysis
Stakeholder Management
Pre-Sales Support
Contract Negotiation
Project Leadership
Solution-to-Cost Analysis
Budget Tracking
Cross-functional Collaboration

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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