CBSbutler c/o Staffing 360 Solutions Limited

DV Cleared Senior Bid Manager

6-month contract

Hampshire

Hybrid (2-3 days negotiable depends on project)

750 per day Inside IR35 Ltd Umbrella rate

(An active DV Clearance is required for this immediate start contract)

Our client is currently seeking an experienced DV Bid Manager to work on one of their sites in Hampshire. The role is hybrid but they flexible on days on site, dependent on the project requirements.

The Senior Bid Manager role:

• Leads and manages all members of the bid team to work together to achieve a successful outcome.
• Understands the win strategy and through analysis, articulates this to the bid team to develop a solution that aligns to the company's overall strategy and in turn maximizes our chances of success.
• Supports the Opportunity Owner in the qualification of each opportunity with professionally facilitated lessons learnt, competitive analysis and win strategy development events.
• Develops a bid budget for the lifecycle of the opportunity and thereafter monitoring/controlling expenditure against approved budget on an ongoing basis to remain within approved limits.
• Develops a bid plan that supports the timely completion of all activities necessary to produce a compelling, assured, and governed proposition and associated response documentation.
• Identifies, organizes, and controls resources required to support bid production ensuring the delivery of quality contributions from all team members.
• Initiates the bid alongside the Opportunity Owner; through a formal kick-off event that engages all bid team members and supporting stakeholders and delivers a consistent understanding of who the client is, what the opportunity is, who we are competing against, how we are going to win, challenges faced, team roles and responsibilities, the plan to execute the win strategy and behaviours that all bid team members and supporting stakeholders are to exhibit.
• Manages the bid team to ensure the proposition and underpinning solution is developed to comply with the customer's requirements and is aligned to the overall win strategy. Ensures the production of all relevant assurance and governance collateral in a timely, engaging manner to support review and subsequent approval.
• Ensures the creation of exceptional customer response documents through the holding of professionally facilitated storyboard events that both provide response structure and supports the articulation of win themes. Monitors the development of the response to support the timely completion of quality review events.
• Works with the Programme Lead to identify, analyse, respond, and manage bid risks, assumptions, and dependencies throughout the lifecycle of the bid enabling the informed completion of Due Diligence as necessary to support customer engagement and subsequent contract negotiation.
• Co-ordinates the negotiation and contract finalization process, ensuring all activities are completed in a timely manner and in turn enabling the company to enter into an understood contractual agreement.
• Manages the formal post contract handover to operations/assigned account team and ensures that a formal lessons learnt event is completed to improve future performance.
• Ensure continuous improvement of bidding function through sharing of best practice, knowledge, experience, and collateral.