Principal Bid Manager

Your New Role

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Principal Bid Manager to join our Work Winning team supporting our Complex Facilities. This is a remote role that will require regular travel to usually Birmingham or London.

The purpose of the role is to grow the business by delivering professional winning bids that are profitable and fit within strategic plan objectives.

As the Principal Bid Manager, you will be tasked to lead a bid programme with relevant subject leads for individual major, medium or strategic bid(s), acting as the focal point for all technical deliverables incorporating quality responses, solution, co-create, negotiations, presentations and the like and for commercial deliverables incorporating estimating, risk, opportunities, financial and legal.

You will develop the bid strategy and manage the communication protocol with all internal and external stakeholders including governance and bid process and oversee business-led bids (minor bids or ‘Children’ of frameworks) to ensure that bid governance and bid process is followed.

The standard hours of work are based on 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

You will be responsible for:

• Leading the bid process for a programme of bids and individual bids.
• Developing the bid strategy with individual Business Stream or Account Directors and Bid Director.
• Monitoring completion of pursuit and capture data by the business/business development and ensure that win plans are in place for each major, medium and strategic bid.
• Planning, managing and identifying resource requirements for bids including support functions and those allocated to deliver the and technical solution and any commercial submissions
• Leading and managing the development of high quality technical and commercial bid deliverables in line with the agreed bid strategy.
• Setting up and managing communication and document protocols for each bid.
• Maintaining client liaison ensuring effective dialogue and prompt response to clarifications.
• Preparing and managing the bid budget and the Opportunity Assessment Tool
• Facilitating the risk and opportunities process engaging a wide range of input with expert commercial ownership
• Overseeing business-led bids (minor bids or ‘Children’ of frameworks) and ensure that bid governance and bid process is followed.
• Manage and provide mentorship to colleagues within team and across wider bidding department.
• Work across the Amey landscape to provide best in class bidding advice to ensure Amey remain at the forefront of work winning, driving change and being ahead of the market.

We want to hear from you if you have:

• Educated to degree level
• Ideally APMP Foundation level
• Process orientated, organised and thorough
• Experience of keeping track of multiple time-phased activities.
• Excellent time management and prioritisation.
• Strong project management and application of processes and knowledge to achieve objectives.
• Ability to get the best from bid teams, whether working remotely or co-located.
• Ability to embrace change and drive continual improvement.
• Understanding of commercial requirements including cost planning, estimating and balancing risk with reward.
• Creative, with an enquiring mind.
• MS Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint. MS Project an advantage.
• Experience of successful bidding in the relevant business sector, able to work across different sectors

What we can offer you

When you join us, we can offer flexibility, career development, a choice of benefits and support that help you through all life’s ups and downs. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers and we have a competitive reward and benefits program

Career Development - Exceptional development and progression plan

• Pension – Generous Pension scheme which we will contribute to
• Holidays - Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Choices - Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
• Save with Amey - Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on shopping, days out, or nights in. It includes healthcare, free GP service, dental vouchers
• Social Value - You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Days each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives

We embrace difference and support individuals to work in ways that work best for them.

We are committed to working sustainably and by working in partnership with the communities we serve, so people and the planet are protected.

Who is Amey?

• We are at the heart of modern Britain, helping the economy to grow by designing, maintaining and transforming the nation’s strategic assets.
• Our 11,000 people are behind the critical services the country relies on every day.
• Our unique engineering and operations experience, together with data driven insight from our consulting business, delivers better results for our clients.
• We are trusted partners of Government – both national and local – managing assets and complex projects that are vital to the sustainable growth of the country.

To find out more take a look at our website www.amey.co.uk

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date should we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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