Senior Bid Manager

Role Overview

Join a leading company in data and AI to help customers turn data into actionable intelligence. We offer a dynamic, flexible career environment recognized worldwide for inclusivity, innovation, and employee experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive bid and proposal efforts for strategic business opportunities ensuring timely, compliant, and top-quality submissions.
• Collaborate with Account Executives and Sales leadership to analyze opportunities, formulate account strategies, and gauge success probabilities.
• Assemble and direct cross-functional teams spanning sales, consulting, technical, legal, and partner stakeholders.
• Create proposal plans, schedules, milestone reviews, and governance to guarantee smooth execution.
• Analyze customer solicitation documents to identify risks and advise stakeholders with necessary recommendations.
• Ensure proposals effectively address client requirements, emphasize strategic advantages, business value, and company differentiators.
• Serve as the main communication hub during the proposal process, maintaining detailed project documentation.
• Mentor junior Bid Managers and provide training on proposal procedures to internal teams.
• Enhance proposal methodologies by reviewing responses, managing repositories, and suggesting process improvements.
• Support sales enablement by preparing proactive proposals, value assessments, presentations, and standard documents.
• Comply with security policies to uphold secure software development objectives.
• Embed core values of curiosity, passion, authenticity, and accountability in all activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technical Communication, Journalism, English, or related fields.
• At least eight years of proposal management experience in technical settings, or a combination of five years in proposal management with three years in technical or grant writing.
• Proven ability to manage complex, cross-departmental projects involving numerous stakeholders and priorities.
• Fluent written and spoken communication skills in both German and English.
• Equivalent education, training, or experience combinations may be considered.

Additional Skills and Attributes

• Customer Centricity: Advocate for client needs ensuring proposals align with business objectives.
• Results Driven: Set challenging goals and maintain quality delivery under tight deadlines.
• Persuasive Communication: Build strong relationships, gain stakeholder commitment, and manage senior engagements with confidence and composure.
• Adaptability: Modify approach and communication style as required by team and project dynamics.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with bonus and comprehensive benefits including a generous pension scheme.
• Access to a Recreation and Fitness Center offering recorded fitness sessions.
• Well-being programs designed to reduce stress and enhance productivity.

Additional Information

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