Senior Bids Manager

This is a permanent role that can be based out of either our Bristol or London office that supports hybrid working.

The Team

BD, Marketing & Sales is a welcoming and dynamic team of experts, supporting lawyers, sectors and service lines across our international business. We are now looking to expand our capacity for supporting and advising our lawyers on international bids.

What You'll Do

Reporting to the Director of Business Development, you will be responsible for leading and line managing the Bids team, which currently comprises of two Bid Managers and one Bids Executive. You will be delivering high quality bid responses across the entire bids lifecycle, from making decisions on go ahead, project managing the process and capturing learnings.

Other key responsibilities include:

• Applying an expert eye to the creation and editing of content as well as ensuring successful submission of high quality, visually appealing RfP responses
• Setting the Bids team objectives that feed down from your team level objectives, holding effective 1:1s with them and holding them team to account for delivery, whilst fostering a collaborative and engaging environment where the team feel supported and invested
• Working closely with the BD team to ensure bids are tailored to particular industry sectors
• Looking at systems and processes that will continually drive efficiencies and improve the quality of our bid responses
• Working with the Head of Pursuits to coach the bid team
• Tracking and reporting on bids win/loss data
• Linking in with active pursuits to ensure the right resource is assigned to support pursuits that become live pitch opportunities
• Bringing together best practice and lessons learnt from other bids across the Firm

What we're looking for

This role will suit an experienced Senior Bids Manager, or Bids Manager looking for a step up in their career.

As well as having an interest in Bids, Business Development and Copywriting, the successful candidate will have:

• Proven project management/bid management skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Ability to build relationships quickly with people across the business - often in a time pressured situation
• Ability to question and challenge senior stakeholders and influence them on the bid approach
• Willingness to be involved in hands on tasks and project manage bid processes, including writing and editing content
• A "can do" and positive attitude
• Strong delivery experience within law firms or professional services
• Passionate about people development and working as a collaborative team
• Evidence of consistent senior management & leadership stakeholder management
• Curiosity, creativity and a desire to constantly improves processes
• Active and supportive team member that looks to contribute to a healthy team dynamic

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits

For more information or to apply

We would very much welcome your application using the link provided. Should you have any questions about the role, or would like to find out more about the firm, please contact Dan Jones at dan.jones@osborneclarke.com.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and where you belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

Being an inclusive employer is important to us and we are committed to ensuring every applicant's recruitment experience is free from unnecessary barriers. We have made a number of external commitments such as the Race Fairness Commitment and Women in Law Pledge, and are working with organisations like Stonewall to become a more inclusive employer. We want you to be able to show us your best during the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application, interview process or when working with us, please let us know.

If you have a dis/ability+, to include physical disability, hidden disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergence and meet the requirements listed in this job advert, we would be delighted to offer you a guaranteed interview. We want you to be able to show us your best during the recruitment process.

We support working families via a range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate flexible working where we can. We value the health and wellbeing of our people: for example, we're signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer free initiatives and flexible benefits to all our people.

Although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis.

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