Bid & Proposals Manager

La Fosse Associates

Bid & Proposals Manager at La Fosse driving proposal responses in a growing employee-owned business. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape clear and compelling bids.

Posted 6/4/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

**What you’ll be doing **
You will be responsible for producing high quality bid and proposal content across a varied portfolio of opportunities.
This will include:
- Leading responses to RFPs, RFIs and ITTs
- Writing clear, compelling and commercially sharp proposals
- Managing bid timelines and coordinating input from internal stakeholders
- Creating pitch decks and presentation materials for shortlisted opportunities
- Supporting managed service, Capability as a Service, SOW and consulting proposals
- Translating service design, governance, delivery models and commercials into client friendly narratives
- Building and maintaining a strong bid content library, including case studies, capability statements and reusable response content
- Creating practical sales enablement tools such as battle cards, solution summaries and qualification frameworks
- Supporting client facing activity, including discovery sessions, bid Q&A and shortlist presentations
- Helping improve bid process, quality, win rate tracking and lessons learned

Requirements

What you’ll need

**What we’re looking for **
We are looking for someone with strong bid, proposal or commercial writing experience in a complex B2B environment.
You may have worked in recruitment, managed service, consulting, professional services, technology services or workforce solutions. What matters most is that you can take complex information and turn it into clear, persuasive and commercially credible content.
**You will likely bring: **
- Experience owning or supporting bids, proposals, RFPs, RFIs, ITTs or formal commercial responses
- Excellent writing skills and strong attention to detail
- The ability to translate complex services into simple, compelling client facing narratives
- Strong stakeholder management skills across sales, delivery, operations, finance and leadership teams
- Good commercial judgement and the confidence to challenge when needed
- The ability to work at pace without compromising quality
- Confidence supporting client facing conversations and presentations
- Experience with managed service, SOW, consulting or workforce solutions would be highly valuable
- An interest in using AI, automation or bid tools to improve quality and efficiency

Benefits

Comp & perks

**Why this role? **
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to have a real commercial impact, not just manage submissions.
You will help shape a growing bid and proposals capability, work closely with senior leaders and play a direct role in helping La Fosse win more of the right work. You will also join an employee owned business where the value you help create directly benefits the people building it.
We are looking for someone who can bring structure, pace, quality and commercial thinking to a growing area of the business.
If you are a strong bid or proposals professional who enjoys working close to the sales process and wants to build something with real visibility, we would love to hear from you.

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Hard Skills & Tools

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Soft Skills

attention to detailstakeholder managementcommercial judgementcommunicationpersuasiontime managementadaptabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingpresentation skills