Bid Manager

Sheffield
Permanent
Full-time

2 hours ago

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS’ success, from both professional and personal perspectives. Come join the excellence!Overview:To strengthen our revenue growth office, and to assist with meeting our new growth strategy, we are looking for a Bid Manager, who will be supporting and coordinating the qualification and managing a predefined bid management process for all formal tenders the Payments Market division receives across our three regions, North America, EMEA and APAC.Reporting to the Sales Operations Manager, the role of the Bid Manager is to support and coordinate all activities of the deal team, ensuring alignment with all internal and external stakeholders and providing assistance to the deal team to navigate through necessary internal bid processes to meet quality standards, approvals and timelines.You will be able to demonstrate experience with drafting and managing persuasive customer proposals and tender response documents. A successful track record of bid management skills, bringing stakeholders together and driving to high quality outputs that drive revenue growth. It is critical you have a proactive approach and hold people accountable for their contribution, as well as being able to find ways to support the different stakeholders where required.You will be energetic and motivated, with excellent verbal and written communication skills. In your day-to-day you will be working closely with Sales, Sales Engineering, Service Delivery, Service Operations, Compliance, Legal and Finance representatives, following a predefined bid management process and artefacts to hold people accountable.In addition, you will work closely with the RGO team members and regional Sales Ops & Support teams to ensure that everyone adheres to TNS’s bid management processes, artefacts and best practices across all regions.Responsibilities:

Support the Sales Operations Manager to manage the bid management and associated artefacts
Imbed the structured thinking principles into all lines of business, i.e. become our “SCQA Champion”
Acting as a point of contact and overall coordinator for the deal team
Scheduling and planning internal activities to meet client and internal milestones (including developing and maintaining the work plan)
Providing guidance to deal teams around our predefined processes and artefacts
Owning / Managing the development of key client deliverables
Ensuring TNS’ quality standards are met
Developing and implementing robust bid management reporting structure
Conducting, managing and coordinating appropriate stakeholder meetings and forums.
Add to the professional image of TNS towards our new and existing customers
Apply structured working methods
Prepare concise and clear documentation
Develop a bid management knowledge repository
Ensure deliverables are finalized on time and of high quality
Pro-actively report on deliverable status and progress
Consult peers and colleagues where needed to guarantee a high-quality product
Be a driver within the blended team to get things done, both professionally as socially
Ad hoc tasks as required

Measures of Success:

Retention and growth of TNS’ business
Development and progression of bid management capability
Performance against timelines and deliverables
Client feedback to responses
Process improvement
Appropriate level of issues management and escalation
Provision of timeline reporting and progress updates

Experience:

Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in a similar role, in example pre-sales, sales operations support, bid management.
Solid background in sales environment and dealing with sales representatives
Advanced communication and grammatical skills
Advanced MS Power Point, Excel and Word skills
Strong time management & organizational skills
Methodical and self-motivated, problems solving
Attention to detail with the ability to work in a pressurised environment
Experience of problem solving or identifying solutions for client needs
Excellent organisational skills
Highly developed inter-personal skills
Strong influencer skills
A “driver”, that makes things happen

Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree preferred

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.Please click on the APPLY button to be redirected to our website to complete your application for this role.Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Proposal Manager, Tender Manager, RFP Manager, Pursuit Leader, Capture Manager, Deal Manager, BID Specialist, may also be considered for this role.How can we help?If you have any questions and you would rather chat to a member of our team please email or call us about this role.CV Writing TipsGet helpful tips and tools for writing an awesome CV.Apply for this roleFirst NameLast NameEmailPhone numberCovering letterLinkedIn URLGRPRa class="form-link" href="/privacy/"
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