Bids Manager

Bid Manager

Any UK Office Location

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting Bid Manager to co-ordinate the firm during the bid process and have project management oversight to deliver bids on time. They will advise on bid strategy, messaging, structure and overall content direction to create impactful bids that address the clients' requirements.

The Bid Manager will also have line management responsibilities. This involves day-to-day operational direction/management of a Bids Executive, including work allocation; reviewing and feedback; managing absences; mentoring and coaching; probation/inductions, and guidance on bids best practice.

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

• Work with stakeholders to gain an understanding of the Energy sector strategy
• Taking full responsibility for managing strategic opportunities at tender and presentation stages
• Undertaking opportunity analysis - is this viable / is the bid in line with firm and sector strategy
• Organising kick-off meetings, to guide relevant stakeholders to prepare a strategy and ensure responsibilities are allocated
• Providing strategic advice and coaching partners
• Collating scoping questions and being involved in the scoping call/meeting
• Coaching and mentoring a Bids Executive
• Work prioritisation/allocation
• Performance review meetings and feedback
• Content management - maintaining and enhancing pre-written content and other standard materials to expand and improve our automated content library

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

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