Bid Manager - Flexible UK location

Bid Manager

NHS Shared Business Services

Salary: circa £45,000pa plus 25days Holiday, Pension, Private Medical, Car Allowance and 3% flexible benefits

Location: Flexible base location - Leeds, Salford, Sheffield, Bristol and Southampton

Role overview

We are currently recruiting a Bid Manager for an exciting opportunity to drive the planning, production and submission of formal Tender proposals in response to Public Sector requirements, for new and existing clients.

You will work closely with our Business Development team in order to develop and deliver compelling Tender proposals.

Able to project manage opportunities, you will follow bid best practice to ensure that deliverables are of the highest standard and maximise the chance of winning business. You will manage a variety bids, with responsibility for establishing the cost of sale budget for each bid and monitoring expenditure against that budget.

This is a highly networked role that requires an ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines. You will require strong people management and commercial skills to be successful in this position

Due to the nature of the role there will potentially be UK travel required, therefore home working will be an option and there are various offices across the UK atop the main base in Leeds available to work from (Salford, Sheffield, Bristol, & Southampton).

Key responsibilities

• Be responsible for ensuring bids are submitted on time and to a high standard
• Report as required on the progress of each bid against agreed programme.
• Review technical solutions to ensure most cost efficient solutions are submitted
• Implement bid strategies to co-ordinate the preparation and submission
• Develop in conjunction with service lines and the marketing team proposal collateral
• Present internally for approval, information incl technical responses, staffing and administration structures for bid preparation
• Co-ordinate, prepare and continually review bid submissions.
• Prepare meeting schedules and coordination of the design and construct teams
• Prepare bid presentation

Essential skills

• Bid Management experience.
• Sales orientation and awareness with a practical understanding of bid management best practice.
• Able to work under pressure to fixed deadlines.
• Able to matrix manage a team of experienced subject matter experts.
• Highly competent in use of MS office tools.

Desirable skills

• Member of Bid Management professional body e.g. Association of Proposal Management professionals (APMP).
• Understanding of risk management in a bidding context
• Understanding of legal and contractual matters as they affect bidding
• Formal sales experience / training

About us

Established in 2005, we are now the UK's leading provider of business services to the NHS, which include Finance & Accounting, Procurement and Employment Services. We currently work with 100% of the NHS Commissioning organisations and over a third of NHS Trusts, providing a high level of governance and accountability for around £100 billion of NHS spend annually. We also provide a full range of solutions for NHS Provider organisations, ensuring cost improvements and efficiency savings, as well as improved data management and reporting.

NHS Shared Business Services is a unique joint venture between the Department of Health and Sopra Steria. We're proud to be the only company which is part of the NHS family, with over 30% of the market using one or more of our products. Our mission is to deliver £1 billion savings back to the NHS by 2020. We've already delivered audited savings of over £400 million to our NHS clients.

As an organisation one of our strategic objectives is to become a Great Place to Work, with a score of 70+. To ensure we achieve our aim we ensure our people are at the centre of our development.

NHS Shared Business Services is committed to establishing and maintaining a working environment which is free from discrimination and values all employees as individuals. All applicants and employees are selected, recruited, trained and promoted solely on the basis of their skills and behaviour.

Find out more

Visit the NHS SBS website and the NHS SBS LinkedIn company page.