Proposals Manager (Energy)
This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.
Job Description
YOUR NEW ROLE, WHATS INVOLVED?
- Lead, drive and implement opportunities through a structured, robust work winning and governance process against agreed timescales
- Manage/facilitate the delivery of all or parts of Expressions of Interest, Pre-Qualifications and Proposals including proposal kick off, winning and review meetings
- Manage interfaces with the proposals team, multi-disciplinary engineering teams, other UK/global business streams, external clients and partner organisations
- Manage multiple bids concurrently, dependent on size and complexity
- Identify an approach to defining bid strategy, win themes and storyboards and developing value propositions
- Produce capture plans based on research/feedback from the Energy teams and other data sources (e.g. workshops, corporate and industry websites etc).
- Lead answer planning sessions and develop bid answer structures to define the most compelling and engaging response to our client
- Write and support impactful, tailored, technically differentiated bid content
- Develop relationships with client procurement teams
- Collate proposal feedback from all members of the project proposal team for continuous improvement and emerging best practice
YOUR TEAM
- We are an integral part of work winning in Energy, supporting our technical colleagues to produce successful proposals
- We are supporting the drive to net zero across in the energy sector
- Reporting to the Head of Proposals and Strategic Pursuits for Energy, you will work closely with our Energy team to support clients in the regulated and private sectors
- You will join a team of bid professionals who work in an open and supportive manner, participating in development opportunities across the business
WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE
- Qualification to degree level, or demonstrable relevant experience in a similar role, ideally in a consultancy background
- Excellent command of English language for editing text and response writing
- Robust project management skills with a meticulous approach to detail and quality, supported by commercial acumen
- A passion for quality and continuous improvement with a focus on delivery with excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise
- Knowledge and understanding mainly with standard private and regulated proposal processes with some knowledge of public sector
- A drive and passion to support the culture of openness and knowledge sharing across the team including a culture of continuous improvement
- Strong and effective verbal and written communication, acting as a team player and using your influencing and collaborative skills to great effect
- Ability to develop and maintain strong effective relationships
- Flexibility to meet demanding proposal deadlines working extra hours when necessary
- An IT focus with an accurate and proficient working knowledge in Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint). Knowledge of Adobe suite. Knowledge of Microsoft Project would be advantageous