Bid Manager

The Role

Are you a Bid Manager with an engineering background? Are you looking for a role within a well established, complex engineering company based in Worcestershire? This Bid Manager role is a great opportunity to become an integral team member with this fantastic employer.

Working within the Sales & Marketing department, the Bid Manager is the key focus for interfacing with customers and producing bids in accordance with business processes.

Bid Manager Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the creation and management of commercial contracts in a robust and timely manner, ensuring commercial risks are transparent, minimised and/or mitigated where possible.
• Negotiation of Terms and Conditions, Non-Disclosure Agreements and other contracting arrangements with Customers and Suppliers covering the supply of Materials and Services; and certify that bids to Customers that are underpinned with robust & valid Supplier quotations.
• Support to the management of the Supplier base to include supplier selection and approval and Implementation of the Make/Buy policy in formulating Strategic Sourcing Frameworks.
• Manages the interfaces with customers and manages bids from strategy review to contract acceptance
• Updates and maintains all legal terms and conditions and standards relating to contracts
• Acts as an expert and advises on Bids and Contracts to both the Purchasing and Sales and Marketing Departments.
• Ensure compliance with company processes and policy for Procurement, Statutory Legal Obligations, Ethical Standards and corporate governance relating to procurement and all International trading legislation and controls associated with materials and products.
• Supports customers in understanding proposals, payment plans, milestones, liaising with bid project managers via project plans, risk registers as appropriate.

Bid Manager Requirements:

• Recent experience in a similar role.
• A team player with the ability to deal confidently and professionally with both internal colleagues and external customers at all levels.
• An excellent communicator with the ability to competently conduct meetings/presentations at all levels within the business and with external customers.
• Able to demonstrate an understanding of contractual matters and be willing to develop this competency in line with business practices.
• Able to develop a sound understanding of internal and external customer bid processes.
• Of an enthusiastic, energetic, flexible and dedicated disposition coupled with a desire to develop and utilise new and current skills to the benefit of the business.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent. Experience in bidding for engineering/manufacturing contracts would be an advantage.
• Able to show a demonstrable knowledge at Intermediate/Advanced level in Microsoft suite of IT products.
• Able to contribute positively to the business improvement process.

Benefits

• Contributory pension.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
• Hybrid / Flexible working potential.
• Bonus Scheme.
• Holiday purchase scheme.

Competitive salary dependant on experience.

Based in Kidderminster, Worcestershire.

Monday to Thursday 8:00am to 4:30pm & Fridays 8:00am to 1:00pm.