Why Apply:
- A competitive salary DOE
- Excellent prospects for career development
The BD Administrator / Manager will be primarily responsible for Business Development across the Group. The role will also have a Bid Management brief in support of the Commercial Director, where The BD Admin / Manager will assemble bid teams with the relevant technical, estimation and business knowledge required to prepare a winning bid, whilst taking ownership of the end-to-end bid process. This is a highly networked role that requires an ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
- BD relevant to all areas of Mainline Group
- Market Research
- Supply Chain development
- PR and Mainline Group profile enhancement
- Branding
- Acquisition research
- Responsible for the production, quality and timely delivery of compliant, commercially sound, market-leading, winning bids and proposals
- Manage the Customer experience and relationship
- Manage the Supplier experience and relationship
- Track and effectively manage issues and risks throughout the bid process
- Contribute to the written proposal - both in terms of content and presentation
- Ensure Bids have gone through the appropriate commercial signoff process
- Arrange all post bid reviews with customers, post contract award
- Manage the contractual and compliance processes relating to all opportunities and customer engagements
- Ensure that all bid documentation produced is fully compliant with customer requirements
- Perform a review of win and loss opportunities to ensure key lessons are learned
- Reviewing trends and carrying out data analysis to identify areas for improvement
- Identify, agree on, and deliver on key performance indicators for the Role
- Degree qualified
- Experience managing multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Previous BD & Bid management and presales experience
- Solid understanding of procurement processes
- Strong understanding of the customer journey, extremely customer centric
- Structured, competent, capable of prioritising workloads efficiently and effectively
- Strong IT skills with Microsoft Office packages, including diagnostic skills
- Experience of MV/HV electrical work would be beneficial
- Technical writing experience is desirable but not essential
- Excellent Commercial knowledge and understanding