Bid Manager

Bid Manager

Full Time – Permanent – Hybrid role in Dartford  

Offering a salary of up to £60,000 depending on experience, plus £4,500 car allowance and great company benefits.

We are looking for an experienced Bid Manager to join our team at a time where the business is growing and we are winning contracts.

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.

Do you want to be a part of a business development bid team that makes a different to the society we live in, that will enable our business to win contracts all over the UK, this might be the role for you!

The Role:

Reporting into the Head of Bid Management, you will be part of the Central Business Development Team, with a line into the planned/project works part of the business. Experience in planned works is essential for this role.

You will work collaboratively to coordinate and lead on the submission of high-quality tenders and submissions.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading and owning the creation of winning tender submissions
• Review all new opportunities with the SMT aligned with Bid Decision Process – Bid / No Bid decision
• Proactive management and leadership of each tender process.
• Ensure structure of the document reflects all requirements in a way that facilitates easy scoring
• Well written proposals from researched and orchestrated responses which convey operational, technical and commercial solutions in a clear and concise manner
• Design, collation, production and review of the final submission document including the ownership and writing of sections.
• Working as part of the bid team to produce high quality, customer focused documents
• Updating and integration of knowledge management within Document Management and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems Monitoring and reporting monthly
• Managing competing deadlines whilst maintaining the highest levels of quality in written work

Role Criteria:

• Experience in planned/capital works
• Proven track record in managing bids
• Proven experience in writing high quality statements
• Experience of liaising with teams (particularly operators) in order to develop deliverable solutions
• Competency in MS Office software
• The ability to work to tight deadlines
• Ability to maintain a flexible attitude to work task and workload to ensure tender deadlines are achieved
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and clients.
• Ability to work on own initiative Project management
• Ideally educated to degree level

You must have experience in Planned/Capital works to be considered for this role. We are also keen to meet a Bid Writer/Manager who has exposure within social housing or similar business sector, with the ability to work on their own initiative and have effective communications skills.

Demonstrable experience of working well under pressure and of working flexibly to manage competing priorities. 

Benefits:

• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Enhanced Sick Pay
• Flexible working environment
• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.  
• Team building activities
• 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

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

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.