Bid Manager

**Base Location**:Flexible, however, our preference is that you will have good access to one of our key UK offices, which includes Glasgow, Gateshead, Leeds, Altrincham, Birmingham, Chepstow or Egham. Travel to Glasgow on an infrequent basis will be required.

**Salary**:£32,600 - £48,800 depending on skills and experience + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

**Working Pattern**:Permanent | Full Time, 40 hours per week | Flexible First options available.

**What is the role?**

We are excited to be recruiting for the position of a Bid Manager as part of our growth strategy, reporting to our Bid Team Lead. In summary, this position will be responsible for coordinating and managing the end-to-end production of quality tender submissions, ensuring that high quality professional customer centric proposals are produced that clearly articulate our value proposition in compliance with our customers' specifications and requirements. Additionally and not limited to this, the role will be responsible for the management of our bid library, creating content framework documents to support the submission of tenders and proposals created directly by our sales teams across the UK.

This is a very varied role, which requires the ability to work both collaboratively and independently to meet fixed submission deadlines and requires excellent written and verbal communication skills, a critical eye for detail, and good commercial business acumen.

This is an ideal opportunity for an individual in their early bid management career who has the passion to develop their skillsets and experience, as training and development will be provided and/or indeed an individual with the proven ability looking to make their next planned career move.

**What do I need?**

To be considered for this position you will require the following skill sets and proven experience:

- Experience in best practice bid management, including experience of bid planning; content planning; governance and the production and submission of compelling submissions.
- Demonstrable track record in winning new business, ideally within the energy or environmental sector and/or within a multi service solutions driven environment.
- Experience in tendering for work with the public and private sector would be advantageous.
- Experience in working to a flexible schedule to meet business deadlines and willing to travel occasionally to meet business needs.
- Highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and have demonstrable writing skills.
- Strong partnership values, assertive and persuasive interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build a rapport with colleagues across functions are important in this role.
- As an individual, you will be a motivated self-starter with a positive attitude to overcoming obstacles to solve cross-business challenges.
- Organised with excellent time management skills, a confident communicator with enhanced active listening skills and have the ability and agility to work efficiently and effectively in multi-functional and multi-skilled teams.

**About Our Business Unit**

The Smart Buildings business makes some of the most iconic buildings come alive

We design, install, monitor, maintain and optimise building control and energy systems - developing solutions for decarbonisation and for smart places - cities, campuses and buildings.

We are one of the largest BEMS suppliers in the UK - a top 3 Honeywell Trend Technology Partner, and the first Siemens Master Partner in the world. We love being a market leader and topping out some outstanding projects to the very highest of standards - safely, on time and within budget

Working alongside our colleagues in SSE Distributed Energy, we provide some of the most critical building control and energy generation services required by a Zero Carbon World - enabling commercial and public sector customers achieve their sustainability targets. In addition to building control technologies our smart energy infrastructure solutions include: Solar PV, Battery Storage, Heat Networks, and Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure.

To reach Net Zero by 2050, we are looking for people who can bring big ideas, new skills and innovative thinking to help us build a world that is more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in, and for generations to come.

So join us on our journey to Net Zero. Help us power change.

**What's in it for you?**

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

**Next Steps**

Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.

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