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Job Description

We are seeking a Bid Associate with a passion for leading strategic bids and driving business growth within a leading engineering consultancy.

You will be joining an established and vibrant UK Bid Team where you will manage high-stakes bids, implement best practices across the bid lifecycle, and create compelling marketing materials. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, excel at coordinating complex projects, and have a knack for crafting winning proposals, we want to hear from you!

Bid Associate Key Duties:
– Providing coaching and mentoring support to your direct reports and the junior members of the wider bid team where necessary
– Recognising the skillset of the team and utilising that to the advantage of the business, applying the relevant resource to the appropriate bids based on requirements
– Prioritising your time on strategic bid pursuits where possible, recognising the impact to the bid spend of having more senior resources working on lower value bids
– Ensuring all bids follow the Bid-No-Bid process before agreeing to support, providing input and research to support the decision. You will chair the Bid-No-Bid Board meeting alongside the Bid Manager, and Director of UK Bid Management
– Ensuring the full bid process is adhered to from end-to-end including informed Bid-No-Bid discussions, structured Bid Kick-Off meetings, timely Bid Reviews pre-submission, and Lessons Learnt feedback gathering post-submission
– Supporting on the development of bid strategy and identification of win themes
– Liaising with the Commercial and Legal Team (CLT) on a regular basis to ensure they are informed of all of our bidding activity, and stay informed of potential contractual / legislative or risk aspects
– Creating additional bespoke content for the submission, by interviewing the necessary technical team members to capture the right story
– Ensuring that all submissions are well written, compliant with what the client has asked for, and are in line with agreed themes corporate messaging. Challenge any content that falls short of meeting the expected standard and score.
– Collating, sharing and disseminating best practice and lessons learned from bid feedback.
– Monitoring bid feedback, analysing our win / loss results and identify potential areas for improvement

Bid Associate Skills & Experience
– Previous experience in Bid-oriented roles at Senior or Managerial level
– Strong copywriting and copy-editing skills
– Previous experience of coordinating and managing tight deadlines
– Prior office experience
– Line management and or mentoring / coaching experience
– Excellent computer and IT skills including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and experience of using spreadsheets and databases
– Previous experience within an architectural practice, construction or engineering industries would be an advantage.
– Knowledge of, or skillset with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign specifically) would be advantageous

Should this Bid Associate position be of interest, please contact Lisa Easthope on +44 (0) 208 126 4537 / lisa_easthope@bidsolutions.com