Bid Manager M/F

Company:Marsh

Description:

Marsh Belux is looking for an experienced

Bid Manager M/F

Exciting opportunity to join our Risk Management team in Belux as an experienced Bid Manager. Your primary focus will be on supporting Marsh respond to both offensive and defensive RFP’s and also provide pre RFP pursuit support for the business. You will be working within a highly successful team, working across all of our Risk Management segment of clients in Belux.

What can you expect :

• Hybrid working

• The opportunity to join a passionate and successful team working with many of the Belux’s largest and best known companies.

• To build and maintain an excellent rapport with our clients, providers and colleagues across Marsh

• Excellent training and development with the ongoing career opportunities.

We will rely on you to :

• Facilitate pre-bid strategy workshops to agree client strategy plans; this may involve attending client face-to-face discovery sessions.

• Lead the RFP pursuit from initial validation to ensure that they are viable, by challenging the team and where necessary work with the opportunity owner to put in place a plan to address any challenges prior to the issue of the RFP.

• Review RFPs for complete understanding of proposal submission requirements and adhere to internal RFP governance.

• Write persuasive proposal/presentation content and executive summaries that are geared toward readers’ needs and level of knowledge and that follows company best practice approach.

• Identify major strategic opportunities within RFPs to help team extract and create more value for/from clients.

• Facilitate opportunity strategy development, working closely with the client team to help identify client/prospect business-drivers, and create the optimal RFP communication strategy, corresponding themes and graphic approach.

• Determine research needs, delegate or perform as appropriate.

• Identify internal points of contact to request practice- and project-specific information when information cannot be found in knowledge management system.

• Manage the RFP/presentation development process, assuming total responsibility for management of the proposal/presentation development process for small/low complexity projects and major responsibility for large/complex projects.

• Coach the pitch team, ensuring adequate rehearsals are in place.

• Conduct RFP debriefs to obtain feedback and record data

• Share information with internal stakeholders to promote best practice and deliver business growth

• Outside of live RFPS, undertakes other independent projects

What you need to have:

• Team working, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and lead project teams successfully.

• Strong written communication skills with the ability to develop compelling messages.

• Organisational skills including the ability to manage projects effectively to agreed timescales and outcomes.

• Curious, creative and Innovative thinking.

• Negotiating and Influencing skills.

• Analytical and problem solving skills.

• Attention to detail.

• Fluent in Dutch/French/English

What makes you stand out:

• A desire to learn and develop new skills and areas of expertise.

• Ability to work on your initiative. 

• A mind-set to seek continuous improvement.

• The ability to remain calm under pressure and be able to work flexibly when required.

About Marsh

Marsh is the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor. With more than 45,000 colleagues advising clients in over 130 countries, Marsh serves commercial and individual clients with data-driven risk solutions and advisory services. Marsh is a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), the world’s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and people. With annual revenue of $23 billion, Marsh McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment through four market-leading businesses: Marsh, Guy Carpenter, Mercer and Oliver Wyman. For more information, visit marsh.com, and follow us on LinkedIn.

Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.