c£55,000 dependent upon experience, plus car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme About the Role As a Bid Manager at Unipart you will spearhead the end-to-end bid management process, transforming customer requirements into high-impact, winning tender responses across Unipart’s diverse sectors and capabilities. As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

Lead an extended team through the defined bid management process for each new business opportunity, ensuring all tenders adhere to the established gateways and stakeholder RACI. Be accountable for the allocated response to public and private tenders and proposals, across any of our sectors and capabilities. Write and design articulate, concise customer‑centric proposals, presentations and other documentation as required. Manage the end‑to‑end production of bid documents and ensure that all proposals are completed on time and comply fully with the customer specification and requirements. Ensure a high‑quality, aesthetically appealing look and feel of proposal documents. Facilitate ‘Value Proposition’ sessions, to ensure customer‑centric and rationalised win strategies are developed and integrated into submission documents. Lead ‘capture’ bidding activity across appropriate strategic opportunities to ensure Unipart is in an optimal position to win ahead of tender receipt. This will include: win strategy and pricing position to win; market analysis; competitive intelligence gathering; conceptual solution design; and value propositions. Track and manage key outputs, actions and clarifications throughout the bid process. Lead tender reviews meetings to drive collaborative sessions with the wider stakeholder team. Work with the wider bid management team on projects to improve bidding processes. Act as an ambassador for bid management practices across the wider Unipart Group.

About You We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

Strong bid management experience in both the public and private sector. The ability to confidently and persuasively write to a high level. Articulate, with strong verbal and presentation skills. A proficient user of Microsoft Office, in particular PowerPoint and Word. Experience operating at a senior level and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders. Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and manage resources/output timelines. Used to working under pressure and to challenging deadlines with energy and passion, and will have the flexibility to deal with change. Experience in the field of supply chain logistics and external bid training (for instance, Shipley or APMP would be advantageous).

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day. #J-18808-Ljbffr