Bid Coordinator
- Full-time
Company Description
The SR Group is an award winning International Recruitment Agency with 4 specialist brands - Brewer Morris, Carter Murray, Frazer Jones and Taylor Root. We have an international network of 14 offices located in 9 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific and America. We’re recognised for providing a premium recruitment service and for working with the most prestigious candidates and clients.
Job Description
ROLE SUMMARY
- The role is both UK and Internationally-facing
- Provide 360-degree management of company bids and proposal activity, including content drafting, formatting and outcome tracking/reporting
- Support the alignment of the bid process with corporate strategy at local and group level
- Continually enrich the bid information library as a key resource for both team and wider company use
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ownership of proactive/reactive bid and proposal opportunities with existing and prospective clients across all brands and all international locations
- Work with stakeholders across all business areas to ensure a collaborative bid
- Compile relevant technical, operational and pricing information, drawing on the expertise of stakeholders across the Group
- Formal bid writing (e.g. PQQ, RFI, RFP, ITT) and presentation building as required, to a high standard, following brand guidelines and to defined quality/time benchmarks
- Help to maintain opportunity tracking/reporting systems to include win/loss metrics, e.g. updating of Bid Tracker data
- Ensure bid progress is communicated to all relevant stakeholders
- Ensure that the bid response library is maintained to a high standard
- Maintaining excellent internal relationships (Fee Earners, Finance, IT etc) – understanding who to go to in order to gather relevant information and ensuring that good relations are kept with key individuals
Qualifications
TECHNICAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- 1 year’s bid experience (desirable), preferably within the recruitment/professional services sector
- Able to write high-calibre creative/commercial proposals
- Understand bid best practice and the end-to-end bid cycle
- Demonstrate advanced proficiency in MS Office products (in particular Word and PowerPoint)
PERSONAL/BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
- Proactive and persuasive, comfortable in dealing with senior stakeholders across all business functions and willing to ‘push back’ when required
- Demonstrate a wide variety of communication skills – writes, speaks and presents clearly and professionally
- Ability to work under pressure
- Takes pride in one’s work and accountability for one’s actions
- Demonstrates excellent planning, organisational and time management skills
Additional Information
· Generous base salary
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- In between Christmas and new year off
- You can work remotely…and this can be up to 60% of your normal working week
- Clear path for progression
- Internal Learning and development team, helping develop and train alongside the support of your manager
· Pension scheme, private healthcare, cycle to work scheme, subsidised gym membership, denplan
- Sabbatical at 5 years
- Fantastic team culture, very collaborative and team socials