Bid Manager

This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which involves a combination of working from our offices and also remotely.

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join our high performing Bids Team here at RS, as a Bid Manager. This role has great growth and development opportunity and will be perfect for a collaborative and innovative person with a proven track record of collaboration and of course strong bid/proposal writing.

What Else You Will Be Doing In The Role

This individual will truly sit at the heart of our company and be a massive part of our success moving forward. Beyond drafting and overseeing bids, you will be working in collaboration with our Sales Team as a ‘go-to bids expert’ attending their meetings and making sizeable contributions to the decision-making process on our company’s direction in our business covering various industries, both regulated and not.

This is a really varied role, but we hope below will give you a good feel for what you would be doing as our Bid Manager:

• Manage the end-to-end bid process, including coordinating internal stakeholders, writing compelling proposals, and ensuring compliance with procurement regulations, across a wide-range of industries and sectors.
• Develop and maintain bid/no-bid criteria specific to industry opportunities.
• Create high-quality, compliant tender responses that align with evaluation criteria and procurement frameworks.
• Lead sales and bid teams through complex tender processes, including Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs) and Invitations to Tender (ITTs).
• Conduct post-bid analysis and manage the feedback process to improve future submissions.
• Utilise Salesforce to manage the end-to-end tender process and communications and Microsoft Teams for working documents.
• Lead or support hand over to Contract Implementation from the Bid Team once bid is won, ensuring that a full and robust understanding of all aspects of the deal is embedded within the Contract Implementation Team, maximising probability of successful execution.

A bit about what you will need to be successful in this position

We are ideally looking for someone who can match at least the following criteria of experience and skills:

• A good foundation of experience and success in the management of bids and wins across a wide-range of industries/sectors including some regulated industries (Rail, Health, Construction, etc.).Good knowledge of procurement regulations and frameworks.
• Strong understanding of evaluation criteria and scoring methodologies.
• Excellent project management abilities with experience in managing multiple bids ata time.
• Reliable attention to detail and ability to interpret complex tender docs.
• Tech skills wise - advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) as well as experience with e-procurement platforms and portals.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Experience in managing large, complex bids (>£1M)

What can you expect from us?

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect globally reputable company, including performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, and generous annual leave, in the UK&I, we’ve also introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery, and gender confirmation surgery
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS

At RS UK, part of RS Group, we’ve been solving Industry problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into

the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 850,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues, and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible, and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join our UK team with over 2000 colleagues in this region – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.