Bid Manager

As a Bid Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. The primary focus of the Bid Manager role will be to ensure submission of winning bids - increasingly frequently in competitive (as opposed to sole source) situations. Managing stakeholder inputs and interests from across the business is a key requirement.

Day-to-day, you'll :

• Submit bids that in doing so have met all schedule milestones and completed to budget agreed at outset.


• Prepare for and lead an opportunity through the CN governance process and gate and coloured reviews. This will require a working appreciation and knowledge of the Business Winning process.


• Identify, secure and mobilise capability and functional support from across the business and external supply-chain. Including, and in conjunction with the proposal Manager engagement of resource needed to ensure generation of high-scoring proposal responses.


• Provide the business with regular progress updates and liaise within the business to manage / mitigate issues which threaten successful bid progress.


• Engage with a varied range of SMEs, capability, functional and business personnel during bid preparation - and for coloured reviews e.g. green team review.


• Ensure post-tender / pre-contract submission that clarifications and customer-facing requirements are suitably met and that business delivery has a suitable handover and transfer of ownership.


This role is full time role, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.


• proven track record in bid management of complex bids over £10m or say 5 years of bid management experience


• Strong organisational traits and ability to respect importance of and meet deadlines


• Knowledge of the end to end Business Winning process and management system


• Strong communicator with excellent attention to detail


• Ability to work under pressure in meeting deadlines - not just bid submission dates but also interim milestones e.g. reviews


• Practical understanding and appreciation of key components underpinning an offer (schedule, supply-chain, risk, contract terms, cost and finance models) - although relevant business functional will normally complete these actual inputs on a bid, The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC)security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
  
  What we offer:


• Generous holiday allowance


• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Employee share scheme


• Employee shopping savings portal


• Payment of Professional Fees


• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave


• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement


• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity


Cavendish Nuclear
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