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PH Jones, part of British Gas, has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Bid Manager/Writer to join our Growth team on a permanent basis. The role will play an important part in the continued growth of our business through retention of existing social housing contracts and winning new work. This will include a range of traditional heating contracts as well as opportunities in the field of renewables and related technologies.
You can be based anywhere in the UK, working as part of a remote team, to deliver a bid writing and proposal development service. This will involve project management of social housing bids while liaising with operational delivery teams, and co-ordinating internal and external stakeholders throughout the bid process.
- Salary: Up to £55k per annum
- Full-time, Permanent / 40 hours per week
- Location: Home Based
- Company Benefits
- Employee Energy Allowance and discount on HIVE products
Key Responsibilities:
- For individual bids, manage the end-to-end bid process, ensuring compliance with internal governance procedures and external client timescales
- Summarise client requirements and brief internal teams to ensure understanding of specification and risk
- Produce customer focussed and compelling soft market test documentation, supplier questionnaires and tender quality submissions.
- Develop a creative approach to the writing and presentation of bids, using client feedback to continually improve and develop our proposals
- Build internal and external relationships with internal stakeholders associated with the bid process to create accurate, timely high-quality bids.
- Maintain and update an information library detailing key processes, achievements, experience and case studies
- Thoroughly review tenders that you are responsible for to ensure risks are properly understood and controlled.
- Understand cost mechanisms within the tender, and the impact of client requirements on the quality and pricing solutions.
- Support in preparing and delivery of client presentations post submission.
What are we looking for?
- Experience of bidding within public sector procurement is essential
- Experience of compiling and writing bid submissions essential
- A high level of literacy with experience writing within a bidding/sales environment to articulate key selling points
- Good attention to detail and the ability to edit the work of others
- Excellent project management skills to ensure leadership and control
- The ability to work as part of a team, supporting your colleagues by sharing lessons learned and experience.
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
- Excellent negotiation and presentation skills.
- Ability to use Microsoft office packages (excel, word, PowerPoint).
- Commercial skills to support pricing manager in overall bid submission.
- Able to drive change and manage stakeholders effectively.
- Experience of bid management with a track record of success in the public sector and preferably social housing.
- Experience of working in a fast-moving bid team environment preferable
You will also receive
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Company matched contribution Pension Scheme up to 3%
- Group Income Protection, Life Assurance & Accident Insurance
- Company Funded Healthcare plan
- Access to MyHealth with 24/7 MyCare phone line
- Online GP24 virtual service
- Eye Test Vouchers
- Annual pay review
- Legal Help
- Financial Education
- Centrica Benefits via ‘BeneKit’ – offers & discounts with high street partners
- Profit Share Award
- Employee Energy Allowance
Joining our team means more than just a competitive salary. We offer an exceptional pension scheme and an impressive 33 days of holiday (including bank holidays).
Furthermore, we care about your well-being and offer a range of benefits to suit your lifestyle. We strive to support you with healthcare plans extendable to your immediate family, an Online GP24 virtual service, eye test vouchers, Group Income Protection, Life Assurance & Accident Insurance, and much more.
If you’re passionate about making a positive impact, we encourage you to apply. Join our dynamic team at PH Jones and contribute to our collective success.
At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!
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What We Do
Centrica is a leading energy services and solutions provider founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We are the UK’s biggest retailer of zero carbon electricity, serving around 10 million customers across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe through brands such as British Gas, supported by around 9,000 highly trained engineers and technicians. Centrica’s purpose of helping you live sustainably, simply and affordably drives our strategy and our People and Planet Plan.
