Bid Director (home-based)

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The position

This is a fantastic time to join this rapidly growing and mature FTSE 250 telecoms business. This exciting role will involve proactively leading and managing pursuit teams through the full engagement process. Based out of one of their London area or Northern sites, this is a home-based position.

The role starts once an opportunity has been identified, and extends through qualification, deal preparation and approval, through to submission, customer follow-up, contract signature and internal handover.

The position is a pro-active role, reporting into the Head of Bid Management and will involve the full bid engagement process.

Bid lifecycle tends to be up to 1 year.

Mixture of private & public sector.

This is a commercial, customer facing position integrated with the sales team

Initially, the appointee would be required to come to one of their key offices in the North/or London for 2-3 days for 3-6 months

£65-£75K + 15% bonus + car

The person:

• Multi-million pound product or complex services opportunities and new named business


• Background in solution/services and experience of bid campaign management from opportunity identification through to project delivery. Provides valuable input into opportunity qualification, win strategies and commercial discussions


• Comfortable working at CEO / Director Level (internal and external customer)


• Sound commercial understanding, P&L, and risk management skills


• Ability to manage complex, multi-workstream opportunities


• Solid understanding and management of internal governance procedures


• Engenders strong will to win within the team


• Proactive and takes ownership


• Achieved or working toward the Association of Proposal Management
  Professionals Practitioner Level (APMP).