Bid Manager

About The Role Position Summary As Bid Manager you will be tasked with the preparation of winning bids, pitch presentations and proposals. You will be required to work across the Business Development and Customer Growth functions, aligning resources based on priorities and working to challenging deadlines to deliver successfully for customers. Role Mission Claranet UK’s strategy is to grow revenue primarily from our existing customer base and ensure all customers receive excellent customer experience. The Bid Manager plays a critical role in achieving these strategic objectives through ensuring the production of high-quality bid content with consistent messaging delivered in a timely manner to our customers. Objectives and Key Results

• Drive standardisation of bid materials to ensure consistent customer messaging and experience
• Leverage insights from win/loss analysis to improve the future bid responses
• Ensure timely delivery of quality bid materials About You Behavioural competencies – organisational and behavioural fit
• Flexible and creative to take considered risks
• Learn and adapt quickly to changing situations
• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure
• Ability to travel to different sites and locations as required
• Manages conflict and challenges in an open and constructive manner Critical competencies – technical fit
• Experience in stakeholder manager with excellent communication skills
• Experience in a Bid / Proposal management environment
• An ability to write and edit high quality and compelling content to tight deadlines essential
• Experience with leveraging existing content and materials to deliver consistent customer messaging About Us Working for Claranet Here at Claranet we pride ourselves on going the extra mile for and with our employees (yes, we really mean with). We offer an extensive benefits package that you can tailor to your needs, inclusive of a matching contribution pension scheme, healthcare, insurance, dental, discounted gyms and app supported benefit access. But what we think makes us different is ‘Team Claranet,’ our dedicated internal part of the business that supports you with matters close to your heart. We proudly support local charities in each of our office locations, support employees with paid charity leave, organise key charity fundraising event per year and have a dedicated committee responsible for supporting employee’s fundraising efforts. Claranet are one of the 10 founding members of TC4RE (Technology Community for Racial Equality.) Being a part of a group of leading UK technology organisations, we are dedicated to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce. We are also very proud members of Tech Talent Charter, a government supported, industry-led membership group created to address the UK’s tech talent shortage and diversity gap through collective action