Bid Co-ordinator

Bid Co-ordinator

Remote, permanent, Full Time position.

Offering a salary of up to £35,000, plus great company benefits

About the role:

We are looking for an exceptionally organised and driven Bid Co-ordinator to join our team on a full-time permanent basis, this role will be remote based but if required an office space could be arranged.

Mears is one of the UK’s leading housing and care providers to both the public and private sector, with over 5,500 employees, working with clients to help develop, fund and implement their placemaking ambitions.

With this exciting opportunity you will be part of Mears Central Bid Team.  We are looking for someone who can work under high demand within the Central Business Development Team to assist in preparing SQ and tender submission documents, and support the wider activities of the team. Working with the Bid Process Manager to achieve compliant SQ and tender submissions.

The ideal candidate for this role will be process driven.  You will need to be calm under pressure, highly organised and have a high attention to detail. You must have experience in bid coordinating and have a qualification in Maths and English and be competent on Word and Excel. Experience on Teams would be beneficial and experience in the housing maintenance or social housing industry would be an advantage.

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Role Criteria

• Working with the Central Business Development team to achieve business growth through supporting new business negotiations and tenders.
• Working as part of the bid team to produce high quality, customer focused documents
• Distribution of tender documents received from the client and distribution of updates to the various bid managers, commercial team and others as required.
• Portal management including clarifications and bid submissions
• Assist with the production of tender submissions (SQs and ITT)
• Ensure that each bid complies with client requirements
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stake holders
• Database Management – own and manage our CRM database with accurate and meaningful data
• Maintain and manage our ‘Bid Library’ that will support the bid and proposal generation process.
• Support and deliver new business and new products

Benefits

• Remote Working
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Generous Sick Pay
• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.  
• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)
• Share saver scheme
• Eye test vouchers
• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)
• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)
• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch
• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

If you feel you have skills needed, please apply below via the link. If you have any further questions, please contact Vickie on vickie.rudge@mearsgroup.co.uk, quoting the job reference number.

Mears Group is a Disability confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks either before or upon commencement of employment.

We are also a Forces Friendly employer and an ERS Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award holder.