Bid Manager

Location: Belgium - Zaventem | Job-ID: 211413 | Contract type: | Business Unit: Sales & Pre-Sales & Alliances

Life on the team

The Bid Manager is responsible for organising all bid team activity following a defined bid process, delivering industry leading document submissions and facilitating the production of high-quality customer presentations. 
 

What you'll do

Bid Project Management

• Manage the end-to-end bid process: project manage the bid process and response from the receipt of the PQQ or RFP
• 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)
• Management of the virtual bid team and operational management of 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 bid documents 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
• Contributing to the written proposal (including providing guidance around the executive summary)
• Responsible for the quality of offer documents and presentations (realisation of Bid and Presentation Story, format, spelling), taking into account the individuality of different customers
• Closure of bid projects (provision of content for re-use into standard knowledge & bid libraries)

The Bid Manager is also expected to:

• 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
• Participation of/in projects to increase effectiveness / efficiency of presales projects
• Self-starting and results driven though clear prioritisation of bid deliverables, and management of bid activities to meet customer bid deadlines
• Willingness to learn, to apply what has been learnt, to build up knowledge and experience
• Delivery and promotion of Computacenter Group Bid Management Service
• Contribution to Group Customer References programme for winning bids worked on

What you'll need

• Adequate professional public sector bidding experience 
• Awareness of bidding industry and best practice (i.e. APMP, Shipley) - APMP certification (or similar) or equivalent qualification is desirable
• Comparable experience in management of tasks and people delivering the tasks (without management responsibility)
• Strong business acumen with the ability to use relevant company bid data sources
• Managing and minimising risk to bid deliverables and ensuring we always have the customer and customer deliverables in mind
• Experienced in document creation, collaboration and management using Office 365 tools including SharePoint, MS Teams etc.
• Strong organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities
• Able to think creatively and find pragmatic solutions
• Ability to work under time pressure
• You'll bring an authentic approach and humble mindset, being respectful and open to all cultures and backgrounds
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written in Dutch, French and English 

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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