Bid Coordinator

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Ipswich
Salary
Competitive
Posted
18 Sep 2020
Closes
06 Oct 2020
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
My client in Ipswich is currently in need of Bid Coordinator

My client is a specialist in Estates and Project Management, Building Surveying, Architectural Design, Landscape Design, Building Services Engineering and Quantity Surveying.

The role:

* Manage the bids and enquiries inbox to identify suitable opportunities within our target geographical areas and sectors

* Support in maintaining and developing an effective system for collating data, information and records relating to bids, tenders and frameworks

* Research thoroughly the industry, project and people involved with a bid to increase its success

* Research each bid and develop a full understanding of the requirements, managing the clarifications process and disseminating information to the Bid Writer(s) to inform bid responses

* Co-ordination and chairing of the bid kick-off meeting to clearly set out responsibilities, and generation of a bid deliverables programme to ensure our outputs are completed in a timely manner and allow scrutiny so they are of the highest quality.

* Work closely with different teams throughout the business to collate and produce relevant information.

* Have the ability to support the Bid Writer(s) in drafting responses, understanding the way in which submissions need to target the questions and respond to the key points to gain maximum tender opportunities

* Coordinate multiple resources to deliver a strong, winning case to a prospective client

* Research and prepare financial data in correlation to a bid

* Develop a strong working relationship with the Marketing and Communications team

* Utilise the Project Information Management System for data collection and management

* Prepare and maintain all professional employee CVs, ensuring all are up to date

* Prepare all case studies relating to stages and key milestones of projects, focusing on the output of delivery relating to our role in projects

* Complete all bids in a timely manner, ensuring that all submitted material is grammatically correct, well-researched and without errors

* Analyse and review submitted bids to continuously improve processes, procedures and content, and ensure we have accurately prepared responses which are relevant to the questions

* Promote standards and professionalism at all times

* Be knowledgeable about the services the Group provides across all its professional areas

* Provide administrative support to all employees

* Provide cover for the wider Business Team

* Support innovation within the team to improve the bid process and develop our company brand in order to increase bid success

* Have a good understanding of Construction, the process of project design and delivery, who they are, our capabilities and where we have strengths in the business to support our bids

* Undertake proofreading and refinement of written material across the Group.

* Manage internal bids tracker and provide regular updates to all opportunities and bids where necessary, including proactively chasing outcome of our bid submissions and disseminating to Senior staff with a clear narrative and understanding of our scoring for future reference

* Conduct detailed review of tender results and assess areas in our bids where we can carry out lessons learnt and make the necessary improvements, updating records to ensure we have well-educated responses to use on future bids

The package includes competitive benefit s as well as holiday package