Bid Coordinator

Location: UK - Hatfield, UK - London, UK - Manchester | Job-ID: 209897 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Business Operations & Administration

Life on the team

We have a fantastic new opportunity for you to join our Bid Management Team if you’ve set your heart on a career in Bid Management, join Computacenter as a Bid Coordinator in Hatfield/London on a permanent basis and you’ll find there’s everything in place for you to succeed. We are looking for graduates or career changers with a keen interest in technology and is looking to make a career in this sector. 

The Bid Management Team provide a Bid Management service to the business that follows the company bid process and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a bid to deliver comprehensive and complete documentation that meet our customers’ exact requirements.

Working as a Bid Co-ordinator you will be responsible for organising all team activity following a defined process, delivering industry leading document submissions and facilitating the production of high-quality customer presentations. 

What you’ll do

Bid Project Management

• Preparation and planning of bid projects (bid team, bid plan, work packages, milestones, deadlines)
• Planning and administration of bid internal communication in the bid team and with other key stakeholders in the organisation (working closely with the bid opportunity owner)
• Administration of the virtual bid team and operational bid projects (in-time, in-quality, resource, deliverables) with the focus on the bid management of tasks in the bid team
• Planning and tracking of agreed internal and external bid delivery dates and ensuring completeness and consistency of the respective contributors within the bid team

Bid Document Management

• Planning and ownership of the handling the documents (filing structure, naming conventions, responsibilities) including ownership of bid collaboration portal for document management and effective collaborative working
• Collects, prepares and integrates standard proposal content as well as customised bid content for the customer
• Responsible for the quality of offer documents and presentations (realisation of Bid and Presentation Story, format, spelling), considering the individuality of different customers
• Closure of bid projects (provision of content for re-use into standard knowledge & bid libraries)

With the support of a Bid Manager or Senior Bid Manager (as required) 

• Support the documentation of bid strategy, differentiators, win themes, key messages and content for proposals and presentations
• Support of customer specific campaigns, coordination of marketing support, ensuring Computacenter brand compliance

What you’ll need

You’ll need to be driven and able to communicate effectively and persuasively with stakeholders from entry level all the way up to c-suite.  You’ll need to be self-motivated who can manage workloads in a fast-paced environment.

• Good academic or vocational qualifications 
• Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills – verbal and written – credible at all levels of the organisation and in different country contexts
• Excellent command of the English language – both written and verbal
• Ability to find and use multiple sources of data
• Experience in unsupervised completion of administration or coordination tasks
• Experienced in document creation, collaboration 
• Understanding of the IT industry and/or bidding/procurement practice

Current information for our applicants

We have made our application and recruitment process virtual, we are excited to bring talent like you on board to join our growing teams within Computacenter. Our recruiters remain available to you should you have any questions. We are looking forward to getting to know you!

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, with about 20,000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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