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Proposal Manager
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Are you a highly organised bid and proposal professional looking for your next challenge? Level Peaks Associates is seeking an experienced Proposal Manager to join their Business Development team in Hereford.
About the Role
As Proposal Manager, you'll take ownership of the end-to-end bid and proposal lifecycle — from opportunity qualification through to contract award. Working closely with technical, commercial and operational teams, you'll ensure every submission is professionally managed, fully compliant, commercially robust and delivered on time.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives on structure, deadlines and quality, and who wants to play a key role in supporting Level Peaks' continued growth. Where business priorities require, you may also provide project coordination and administrative support to live programmes, drawing on the same planning and organisational skills you bring to bid management.
What You'll Be Doing
- Managing multiple concurrent bids and proposals, developing bid plans, submission schedules and resource plans
- Coordinating contributions from technical, commercial, finance, operations and partner organisations
- Chairing kick-off meetings, progress reviews and submission reviews
- Leading the production of high-quality proposal documentation, including drafting, editing and refining content
- Producing compliance matrices and ensuring all mandatory and contractual requirements are addressed
- Conducting final compliance and quality assurance checks prior to submission
- Supporting capture planning, competitor research and market opportunity analysis
- Maintaining the company's bid library, case studies, CV database and past performance information
- Providing project coordination support during mobilisation or live programme delivery, where required
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Experience & Skills Required:
Essential:
- Experience managing competitive tender responses or complex proposals
- Excellent written communication and editing skills
- Strong organisational, planning and coordination abilities
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing competing priorities
- Excellent attention to detail
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Desirable:
- Experience within Defence, Security or Public Sector procurement
- Knowledge of UK procurement processes and competitive tendering
- Experience supporting project delivery or contract mobilisation
- PRINCE2 Foundation, APM or equivalent project management qualification
- Familiarity with JIRA, Primavera 6 or similar project management tools
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You'll be highly organised and methodical, an excellent communicator with strong stakeholder management skills, commercially aware and customer-focused, proactive with a strong sense of ownership, and able to work effectively under pressure and to demanding deadlines.
Security Requirements
Due to the nature of the work undertaken by Level Peaks, the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain and maintain, as a minimum:
- BPSS Clearance
- Security Check (SC) Clearance
The Details
- Location: Hereford
- Reporting to: Bid Director
- Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience, plus discretionary annual bonus and other benefits
How to Apply
If you're ready to bring your bid management expertise to a growing team, Level Peaks Associates would love to hear from you. Apply now to join them as their next Proposal Manager by emailing your CV to CV@levelpeaks.com
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