Salary: Up to £28,000

Location: Home Based

Would you like to join one of the largest providers of communications and IT solutions across the UK as a Junior Bid Manager? Your role will be to consistently deliver high quality and ultimately winning proposals for a range of sales opportunities across the business, and to manage the bidding process all the way through to the implementation of a winning bid.

Since being founded in 2001, Daisy delivers solutions and services serving more 2,000 UK businesses across all sectors – with a portfolio spanning Modern Workplace, Connectivity, Unified Communications, Cloud, Cyber Security and Operational Resilience.

What you will be doing:

• Aiding the qualification of opportunities to ensure best use of resource
• Communication of the bid process to all members of the bid team
• Ensuring the timely production of a bid responses and proposals (SQs, RFPs, ITTs)
• Development of a response structure and the allocation of responsibilities and timescales
• Quality assurance of written submissions; ensuring factual correctness and consistency of sales messages in line with business realities
• Co-ordination of responses to customer queries
• Close liaison with other departments including Sales, Sales Specialists, Pre- Sales, Project Management, Operations, Legal and Commercial
• Adherence to the Bid Review process
• Management of the bid governance and sign-off processes, ensuring that authorisers are kept informed of bid progress and are briefed in a timely fashion for sign-off
• Maintaining & Developing “boiler plate” content
• Aiding in maintenance of Bid Log
• Aiding in the provision of document production facilities on nominated sites

What do we need from you?

• Bid Management Experience
• Strong proven skills with Microsoft tools (in particular Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• Marketing Communications experience
• Customer facing experience
• Experience dealing with Senior Management & Director level staff
• Commercially aware and knowledge of a variety of commercial deal structures
• Ability to lead/ control conversation
• Ability to lead and motivate teams

Did we mention the perks?

We show our appreciation by providing various benefits and rewards to our employees that help make Daisy a great place to work and provide a great work life balance.

These include but are not limited to:

• Holiday – Starting at 25 (increasing to up to 30 days for each year you stay with us) + a holiday purchase scheme!
• Daisy University and Apprenticeships – Giving you the opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge whilst you work for us.
• Hybrid, field and home based working – To ensure work WORKS for you.
• Enhanced family friendly policies – We are here to look after you and your nearest and dearest.
• Health & Wellbeing offering – Including discounted membership for health plans + Eye Care Scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, and an in-house Wellbeing team.
• The Exchange – Online discount platform for more than 1,200 retailers.

And many more – to see all the benefits on offer visit our Why work for Daisy page!

Ready to join us?

If you feel Daisy is the right workplace for you, we would like to hear from you!

Once you have applied online and have been shortlisted, our recruitment team will be in touch with you to arrange an interview and answer any questions you may have. This could be a face-to-face or a remote interview. The application process varies depending on the role and the level of experience needed.