Business Development and Bid Coordinator

Our client a Multi-Discipline Engineering Consultancy has a vacancy for a Business Development and Bid Coordinator to be based in their office in Birmingham.

The Business Development and Bid Coordinator will work under the direction of and is accountable to, the Head of Bid Management , for supporting allocated business development activities including the preparation of proposals and for the winning of bids for the Property and Development business stream.

You will be responsible for supporting the team leader in developing, improving and coordinating an efficient bid management process to create a strong “bid winning culture”. The role includes providing support in managing bids and coordinating the interfaces between business growth, discipline and business development leaders to maximise win to bid success.

The role includes the following:

Proposal Management and Business Development

• Support national and regional business development and the bid management process and approach and coordinate interfaces within Property and Development and with other UK business streams including the UK major bids team
• Coordinate and contribute to allocated bids and strategic project opportunities
• Contribute to developing bid winning strategies for allocated bids and proposals
• Record and manage bid management costs nationally and regionally
• Facilitate and coordinate the strategic assessment and “go and no go” decision making process
• Support the management of the Client satisfaction and feedback process and provide feedback on successful and unsuccessful bids
• Support the management of the Uk bid management process for the Property and Development business.
• Support and promote best practice and knowledge sharing through national and regional relationships at business and project level.
• Support and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Improve the quality and standards of bidding through a training and development programme
• Undertaking other business development and bid coordination duties as may be reasonably directed by the HBM

People

• Laise and interface with other members of the team, proposal managers and other BD and operational staff
• Support highly visible bid and prospect leadership for the Property and Developments business
• Exhibit and demonstrate behaviours and attitudes in accordance with the companies core values to create a culture of effective team working and communication

Responsibilities:

• Ensure the brand importance of design quality, technical excellence, and innovation and best practice solutions are referenced, promoted and messaged in bid documents.
• Provide support to manage and implement Client satisfaction and feedback process and provide feedback on successful and unsuccessful bids
• Provide market and client intelligence from the client feedback process to the national and regional business development function
• Manage and support management of bids. Ensure all strategic and major bids have bid strategies in place, lead best practice and demonstrate knowledge sharing. Manage bid management process to create a strong “bid winning culture”

Key Competencies:

• Meticulous approach to detail and quality. Good command of English language for editing text and for bid response writing.
• Able to work accurately under pressure and has flexibility to meet demanding bid deadlines working extra hours when necessary. Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise activities.
• People skills to encourage, motivate and enthuse others to provide information to meet bid deadlines.
• Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative
• Demonstrates strong and effective verbal and written communication, team player, collaborative, ability to develop and maintain strong effective relationships.
• Highly proficientin word processing and able to prepare power-point presentations

Qualifications:

• Preferably qualified to degree level in an appropriate subject
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience in a similar role