Bid Manager

Watford, England, United Kingdom

1/7/2025

Job Description

Bid Manager.

Salary: £52,700 per annum.

Location: Remote covering England Wide.

Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.

Benefits:   

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave. 
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities. 
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages. 
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover. 
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailer's discounts. 
  
  

Why Action for Children?   

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.  

Diversity, equality, and inclusion 

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. 

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children. 

A Bit About The Role 

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Business Development Team with Action for Children as a Bid Manager. You will provide overall professional management, co-ordination, and direct production of bids/proposals for strategic, high value, complex bids as well as for smaller bids. Applying a detailed understanding of the needs of Children's Services and their commissioners, into customer centric differentiated win strategies, to achieve annually set income targets. Relationships with key stakeholders are essential to making the role a success.

How you'll help to create brighter futures, by: 

• Delivering against annual income and win rate targets.
• Planning, leading, and delivering bids/proposals, clarifications, interviews, and presentations.
• Coordinating, developing content, writing and conducting research for bids, with technical input and review.
• Identifying and building partnerships with other providers and/or community partners to deliver differentiated win solutions through proactive account management with key customers.
• Identifying and managing bid opportunities through the bid pipeline.
• Proactively prospect with commissioners, partners, and other stakeholders to win and grow business.
  
  

Let's talk about you 

• Experience of successful bid management and bid production - from identification through to submission and track record in retaining and winning business through successful tendering.
• Demonstrable communication skills – both written and verbal, to articulate and translate complex strategies, ideas, and models.
• Lived or worked experience in urban and diverse communities.
• The ability to develop and maintain effective networks, relationships, partnerships, and alliances.
• Experience of producing business cases and recommendations to inform decision-making.
• Experience of public sector commissioning and problem-solving, particularly from a third sector and/or social care perspective.
  
  

Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.   

Good to know 

Application Process 

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. 

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration. 

Contact: David Simpson on 01923361732 or email us at  recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk  quoting reference 10599.

Want to know more about Action for Children? 

Find us on  X ,  Linkedin ,  Facebook  or  YouTube  to get to know us better. 

Closing Date: Monday 20 th January 2025.

Interviews will be week commencing Monday 27 th January 2025.

Job Description

See below for further information about working with us: 

Action for Children Employee Benefits 

AfC Commitment Statement 

Management Competency Framework