Bid Co-ordinator

Bid Co-ordinator

Remote, permanent, Full-Time position (Possibility of working from an office, dependant on location)

Offering a salary of up to £35,000, plus great company benefits

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced, exceptionally organised and driven Bid Co-ordinator to join our team on a full-time permanent basis, this role will be remote based but if required an office space could be arranged.

Mears is one of the UK’s leading housing and care providers to both the public and private sector, with over 5,500 employees, working with clients to help develop, fund and implement their placemaking ambitions.

With this exciting opportunity you will be part of Mears Central Bid Team.  We are looking for someone who can work under high demand within the Central Business Development Team to assist in preparing SQ and tender submission documents, and support the wider activities of the team. Working with the Bid Process Manager to achieve compliant SQ and tender submissions.

The ideal candidate for this role will be process driven.  You will need to be calm under pressure, highly organised and have a high attention to detail. You must have experience in bid coordinating or administration, have a qualification in Maths and English and be competent on Word and Excel. Experience on Teams would be beneficial and experience in the housing maintenance or social housing industry would be an advantage.

Role Responsibilities:

• Working with the Central Business Development team to achieve business growth through supporting new business negotiations and tenders.

• Working as part of the bid team to produce high quality, customer focused documents

• Distribution of tender documents received from the client and distribution of updates to the various bid managers, commercial team and others as required.

• Portal management including clarifications and bid submissions

• Assist with the production of tender submissions (SQs and ITT)

• Ensure that each bid complies with client requirements

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stake holders

• Database Management – own and manage our CRM database with accurate and meaningful data

• Maintain and manage our ‘Bid Library’ that will support the bid and proposal generation process.

• Support and deliver new business and new products

Key Criteria

• Social Housing / Housing Maintenance background, Tier 1 contractor preferred

• Experienced in the bidding process, with the ability to manage multiple large scale bids at any one time

• CRM experience

• Be familiar with bidding portals

• Working in multi-discipline environment

• Ability to work with minimum supervision

• CRM experience

Please Note - All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits

• Remote Working

• Generous Pension Scheme

• Generous Sick Pay

• Family friendly policy to include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and much more.  

• Refer a friend scheme (total award £1000)

• Share saver scheme

• Eye test vouchers

• Employee Assistance Programme (Access to Free counselling service)

• Wellbeing service (Access to trained mental health & wellbeing advisors)

• Mears Annual Family Fun Day for you and your family to places like Blairdrummond Safari Park, M&Ds Themepark, fully paid for including lunch

• Mears Rewards - A performance recognition platform whereby you can be rewarded in high street vouchers

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