Sureserve
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Sureserve Compliance Fire Ltd.
Sureserve Compliance Fire Ltd., part of the Sureserve Group, is a specialist in Life Safety compliance services. Through design, installation, maintenance and monitoring of fire safety and electrical systems, we deliver fire and electrical compliance and testing services. This covers a comprehensive range of physical infrastructure and safety considerations required for a building to meet regulatory requirements. As a leading fire and electrical compliance service provider to the public sector, our success relies upon a market-leading, engaged, and highly skilled team, for which we are always seeking skilled and self-motivated individuals to join us.
Role Overview
Sureserve Compliance Fire are seeking a dynamic Bid professional to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will be key to the Growth strategy of our organization and driving its sustainable growth trajectory.
Key Responsibilities
- Responding to SQ, RFP and ITTs.
- Tracking clarifications and liaising with the relevant persons.
- Working with the Leadership Team to create innovative solutions to develop a clear win strategy, ensuring win themes are clear, compelling, and aligned to client requirements.
- Drafting content and reusable documentation for PQQ / RFI / RFP / ITT / Frameworks and improving the existing knowledge base, driving improved productivity.
- Liaising with subject matter experts within Sureserve to develop case studies.
- Managing and facilitating storyboard sessions to develop our solutions and approach to qualitative questions, leading to best in class responses.
- Ensuring timescales are achieved at each step of the bid process, including all internal governance, while taking the initiative in setting realistic deadlines.
- Ensuring on-time submission of compliant and commercially sound bids.
- Coordinating and planning client presentations required as part of the bid submission.
- Developing Business winning standard process, resolute tracking of all activities, and production of value-adding KPI metrics.
- Maintaining an accurate, documented Sales Database.
- Driving continuous improvement through post-bid reviews.
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Qualifications and Skills
- Demonstrable success and ability in bid writing and winning high-value tenders within the public sector and social housing market, ideally within the Compliance Fire marketplace.
- Able to work quickly and accurately, under own initiative and to tight timescales.
- Excellent analytical, written, and problem-solving skills.
- Ideally a bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Demonstrable successful experience in a matrix design organization.
- Demonstrable career evidence of a key finance role in an organization achieving significant Growth in Revenue & EBITDA.
- Ability to develop and implement processes.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, DP, and InDesign.
- Ideally but not essential, knowledge of fire safety works, such as active, passive works, etc.
- Ideally but not essential, social housing sector experience.
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Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus the bank holidays)
- Extra day off for your birthday
- Pension contributions
- Employee Assistance Program
- 24/7 Virtual GP service
- Bike 2 Work scheme
- Discount benefits hub
- Health cash back scheme
- Hybrid working
- Career progression opportunities
- Ongoing Mentoring and ‘career / performance coaching’
- Commitment to training and development
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