Datacom

Senior Bid Manager

Datacom

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Wellington • New Zealand

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead virtual teams to develop responses for complex tenders and major proposals (including EOIs, RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs)
  • Mentor junior staff, drive continuous improvement, foster best practice
  • Co-ordinate and ensure that all opportunities follow qualification, risk assessment and review processes.
  • Oversee the proposal process, including content acquisition and internal review.
  • Provide regular status updates to business stakeholders in conjunction with the opportunity owner.
  • Manage all commercial and quality reviews ensuring all business and delivery stakeholders have approved all aspects of the solution and costs.
  • Collaborate and develop relationships with stakeholders and contributors
  • Continuous development of a library of best practice collateral that can be used in proposal creation.
  • Maintaining a proposal toolkit - to ensure that all company guidelines are adhered to

Requirements

  • Broad understanding of IT services and our industry
  • Strong understanding and implementation of bid and proposal methods and disciplines
  • Strong team leadership skills and reporting capabilities
  • Proven time management skills, with the ability to multitask and work on competing priorities
  • Strong verbal and written communication, analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Outstanding negotiating and influencing skills to get internal support and buy in of “virtual teams”
  • Knowledge of finance management practices
  • Excellent stakeholder relationship building and management skills.
  • Confidence and experience using AI tools for the creation of proposals
  • Creative skills a bonus, eye for detail
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
bid methodsproposal methodsfinance management practicestime managementanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillsnegotiating skillsinfluencing skillsstakeholder managementproposal creation
Soft Skills
team leadershipcommunication skillsmultitaskingrelationship buildingcreativityattention to detail