Bid Manager

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About The Role

The role

Working within Gateley'sProperty New Business team, the Bid Manager will be responsible for supportingpartners to win profitable work through the sales and tender process. You willtake ownership of and project manage responses to formal tender opportunitiesas well as produce credentials and proposals to support winning work within thelegal and surveying businesses across the Property Platform. The role holderwill work proactively to ensure all tenders are delivered on time andaccurately, in compliance with client and regulatory requirements.

This is a collaborative rolewhich requires the role holder to build strong, proactive relationships withinternal clients across all offices. Positive working relationships with thewider Marketing team, particularly the Property New Business team (whichincludes a Bid Manager, New Business Manager and two Senior New BusinessExecutives) will be integral to the success of this role.

This is a 12-14-month FixedTerm Contact.

Key responsibilities

You will be responsiblefor leading tenders and proposals across our Property Platform, for bothregional and national opportunities. This includes legal and/or consultancytenders and cross-platform proposals.

Identifying, scopingand evaluating bids

• Working with the other Bid Manager for Property and wider New Business team to guide the bid/no-bid decision.
• Working closely with fee earners to develop winning bid strategies and propositions.
• Carrying out research on clients and prospective clients.

Project managing bids

• Project managing tenders and proposals, including initiating kick off emails, managing progress meetings and coordinating pricing and contract reviews, ensuring full compliance with all requirements.
• Drafting, editing and proofreading compelling content.
• Liaising with other support departments (IT, HR, Accounts, Facilities and Compliance) to ensure all information submitted is accurate.
• Ensuring all collateral is created within the Gateley brand guidelines.
• Coaching fee earners to help them prepare for presentations.

Follow up

• Analysing pitch wins/ losses and following up through a proactive debrief process
• Following the bids promises process following winning sales opportunities.

Developing andsharing best practice

• Working collaboratively with the wider Property New Business team.
• Contributing to the 'Content Hub' to ensure the precedent bank is up to date and quality content is maintained with support from the Group Bid Coordinator.
• Maintaining a knowledge and awareness of the work completed by teams within the Property Platform. Looking for opportunities to cross sell services from across the Platform and the wider Group, whether for Gateley Legal or the consulting businesses.
• Gathering best practice responses to commonly faced questions and useful case studies, including sector specific experience.
• Sharing examples of best practice and innovative ideas across the Property Platform.
• Ensuring a consistent approach to bids is implemented across the Property Platform, helping to continuously improve our approach.

This jobdescription is not an exhaustive list due to the requirements of the role.Therefore, the job holder may be required from time to time to work with the widernew business team on ad-hoc projects.

The person

The roleis suitable for those with experience of working in a property or legalenvironment.

Candidatesmust be able to demonstrate the following skills:

• A minimum of 3 years' experience in a bid or tender management role in a B2B environment.
• Experience of working in the property and/or construction sectors would be preferred but not essential.
• Experience of working on formal tenders.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to influence.
• Ability to maintain and develop client relationships at a senior level.
• InDesign experience preferred but not essential.
• Knowledge of CRM systems and online research tools.
• Excellent IT and numeracy skills.
• Strong personal organisation skills
• Fastidious attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise own workload

About Us

Thebenefits

With support, coaching and feedback from some ofthe most engaging colleagues around our great development and progressionopportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty.We offer a competitive remuneration package. In addition, we have a widerange of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform todevelop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewardspackage includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasingextra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistanceprogramme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and manymore benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you canselect a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a CommunityOnline Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hiphop dance.

Weare Gateley

We are forward thinking andstraight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that ourclients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are agroup of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problemsolvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legaland business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 activeclients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK andbeyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring;it's about attitude too.

The 'Gateley Story' is thestory of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we aretoday as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the GateleyTeam Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internalvalues that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes fiveelements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success,Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Everyyear across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone andabove and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at ourannual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, inclusion and wellbeing

Diversity, inclusion andwell-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruittalented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providingequal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race,sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

We create an exciting andrewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and togetherto achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns tohelp our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidatesseeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.

We are proud to have beenrecognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and InclusionCharter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Additional Information

If you are successful in receiving an offer of arole with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will becompleted. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to youreligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminalrecords, your financial stability and references from previous employers. Thescreening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary fromrole to role.