Bid Executive

Design Build Search is seeking a Bid Manager on behalf of our client, a global multi-disciplinary consultancy, offering a wide variety of engineering and sustainability services.

Our client is recognised as a world-leading expert in innovative and sustainable design engineering. The Marketing and Bid Team plays a critical role across the global business – working within 29 locations, 22 services and 20 sectors!

The selected candidate will be responsible for leading Ireland-based bids for the Dublin office, taking ownership of the bid process and associated work-winning activities.This role is being offered on a 14-month fixed term contract basis.

Requirements:

• Ownership and leadership through entire bid process for effective submission
• Day-to-day bid contact for global marketing team
• Working with local senior staff to identify improvement areas and raise standards of submissions
• Credible point of contact for senior and junior staff within the business and externally
• Take a leading role in the global marketing and business development effort
• Deliver bids and tenders in InDesign and Word. Competent use of InDesign is an essential requirement for this role.
• Drive and reinforce bid strategy, management and deliverables throughout
• Manage the bid process to completion, working with Marketing team and senior technical staff to write, develop and refine bespoke responses
• Thoroughly quality check tender documents prior to submission via electronic portal, digital submissions and / or hard copy
• Support development and maintenance of library of current bid information including CVs, project profiles and best practice example responses
• Ad-hoc management of junior Submissions team members on all bid-related information
• Analyse trends and feedback from submissions team across local region, work with and present to sector leaders as necessary to establish local strategy and targets
• Lead workshops and create presentations in MS PowerPoint

Requirements:

• Five years experience of working in a bid writing/marketing/business development role
• Proven experience of working in a professional services and/or consultancy environment
• Experience of working strategically and independently, coordinating closely with multiple stakeholders to achieve objectives
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Strong experience with a range of industrystandard programs (MS Office, SharePoint, Adobe InDesign, Acrobat, Bluebeam Revu etc)

Qualifications:

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent in relevant field
• Post-graduate qualification in a business and/or marketing-related discipline (desirable)
• APMP Foundation member (desirable)