Bid Manager

Costain Group · United Kingdom

The following criteria are the desirable Bid Manager skills and experience, coupled with relevant knowledge, the right attitude and potential.

Experience of successfully delivering bids, from early inception and client information capture, through PQQ and ITT stage, onto client interviews, feedback and lessons learnt.
Experience of structured bid processes, for example the Shipley bid process, and using these to produce high quality bid submissions.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate well at all levels and in all forums from one-to-ones to group workshops and facilitation.
Ability to maximise the use of tools such as Office365, MS Project, CRM, and industry recognised sales techniques such as Miller Heiman.
Experience liaising with external and internal contacts at a range of levels.
Commercial awareness/understanding.
Commitment to quality and attention to detail.

For Internal Reference: Generic Job Description - Bid Manager.pdf

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Costain appreciate the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at application phase.

We do share individual feedback following an interview.

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Drives the bid team and the business to develop compelling winning propositions that comply with client’s requirements yet do not compromise our high standards of corporate integrity. Manages all bidding activities in accordance with bidding best practice from initial client contact through to contract signature including the development of bid strategy, plan and budget to enable submission of bid responses to requisite time, cost and quality standards. Typically manages growth/key or medium to high complexity deals, and strategic deals where supporting a Bid Director.

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