Bid Manager

Do you have at least three years' experience of bid/tender management and ideally experience of the waste and recycling industry? Our broad customer base and service offering makes for a rewarding and varied role as Bid Manager, based at our Colnbrook office, near Heathrow. You’ll manage our tender activities and join us on a permanent full-time contract, earning £50-55k and great benefits, including:

- Company car

- Discretionary company bonuses

- Pension scheme (you contribute 5% of pay, Grundon matches this) with life insurance cover

- 30 days’ annual leave (inclusive of 8 bank holidays), which will increase with service, plus the option to buy up to 5 extra days' holiday

What you’ll be doing as Bid Manager

As Bid Manager, one week you could be overseeing a bid for a multi-site retail or property management company, the next for an NHS Trust, local authority or other public-sector body, or an airport or logistics business.

- You’ll manage the preparation and completion of Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs), Invitation to Tenders (ITTs) and tender documents.

- Supported by a Bid Writer, you will liaise with internal teams – Contract Management, Sales, Operations, Compliance – to come up with solutions for customers’ waste across all ‘streams’, from general waste and recycling to hazardous and clinical.

- You’ll ensure full compliance requirements have been met and manage the production and delivery of tender documents.

What we’re looking for in our Tender Manager

- Degree-educated.

- Excellent writing and proofreading skills.

- You’re highly motivated with strong organisational, time-management and communication skills.

- You’re used to working to tight deadlines whilst maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.

- Evidence of an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).

- Full UK driving licence

Working hours: 35 per week: 9am-5pm, Mon-Fri, though flexibility is required in order to meet deadlines

Grow with Grundon

Grundon is a leading, long-established and award-winning waste management, environmental and quarrying business that develops and invests in the people that work for us. With a bright future and expansion plans, we could be a great career fit for you. Click apply. No agencies please

Please note: We interview as soon as we have applications that look like a good match, so do apply as soon as possible