​Role: Bid Manager - FM Solutions

Salary: £60k plus 10% Bonus

Job Status: Permanent / Full Time

Location: Surrey / Hybrid

Vacancy Reference: VR/05058

Role Description:

Our Client is a £90m FM Company that operate in the South of the UK across sectors to include social housing, commercial, public etc.

The Role:

• Work as part of a dynamic Bid Management team providing creative and commercial solutions to bid requirements and first draft submissions

• Support and at times lead the bid process ensuring all relevant parties are kept fully informed of their requirements and progress

• Lead the planning and advising of the bid activities and resources available for the pipeline of work

• Provide support and take ownership of populating generic organisational content into Selection Questionnaires, Requests for Information and other bid submission formats

• Compiling cost and data information for FM bids to ensure risks and commercial opportunities can be accurately identified

• Conducting site visits as part of the bid process and identify cost and efficiency drivers

• Supporting mobilisation activity in relation to the services at new sites

• Identifying pre-written content that may be available to start to develop the proposal

• Developing and re-writing content into a consistent and excellent proposal style by either:

• Taking information provided by the individual contributors in the business development team to create responses;

• Meeting with and interviewing individual contributors to capture the raw information and details required to then develop draft responses

Ideal requirements:

• APMP Certification is ideal. There will be an expectation to complete the qualification which will be fully funded by the client

• Direct experience of facilities management technical and tender process

• Outstanding writing, editing and verbal communication skills

• Working knowledge of Office including MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and MS Project

• Skilled in the application of IT systems, including Office 365 including advanced Word skills

• Media, English degree or similar subject or equivalent would be advantageous but not essential