Package Description
Joining Serco amazing team offers:
- Competitive Salary
- Great career opportunities
- Corporate Benefits Package
- International environment
- Possible hybrid work
Job Introduction
Serco is a partner of choice to the European Institutions and other International Organisations. For the past 30 years, we have been providing European and International Organisations a wide range of services including ICT services in support, infrastructure, operations and development as well as managing different contact centres for the key European Institutions, agencies and organisations across Europe.
Serco provides the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.
Does working in a Serco environment sound appealing to you?
We would love to hear from you and your interest in the new opportunity of a Bid Manager (Space) !
The role involves working within the European Bidding Team to provide dedicated, high-quality support to the central Growth team and individual bid teams across the Business Unit, working with colleagues based in Belgium, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Czechia and others.
This is a key role, helping to ensure that we are in the best position to win good business to grow and develop the company.
Day to day this means working with BD and bid teams to support excellent project management, robust governance and the production of winning bids.
This is an opportunity to work in a diverse organisation, in a high-profile, crucially-important role; it also offers opportunities to gain a broad range of experience within varied bidding environments.
Main Responsibilities
As Bid Management you will be responsible for:
Bid management:
- Independently manage small to medium-scale Space sector bids end-to-end, working closely with individual bid teams
- Support the management of larger-scale/strategic bids as required, working in collaboration with Bid Directors and BD Leads
- Manage physical and virtual bid teams, including securing inputs from key stakeholders, typically involving sales, technical, finance, commercial, legal and marketing colleagues
- Manage/support the bid strategy and production process, from opportunity identification through to submission and follow-up
- Manage/support the governance process for individual bids, working in partnership with Bid Directors (where applicable) and wider bid teams
- Manage/support key stages of the bid process – e.g. production of bid kick-off packs, running win strategy workshops, managing red reviews etc.
- Management and tracking of risks
- Manage individual bid calendars and budgets
- Manage the SharePoint site for each specific bid
- Manage bid submission portals
- Ad hoc bid writing and production tasks as required
- Coordinate and contribute to client presentation/dialogue sessions as required
In return, we offer a friendly, supportive and professional environment that respects your work/life balance and ultimately contributes to the delivery of public services around the world.
Successful Candidate
Essential:
- Experience of Space bids
- Strong intellect
- Accuracy and attention to detail, with excellent organisational skills
- 2 years’ + experience of effectively managing live bids
- Excellent Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
- Capacity to handle demanding and fluctuating workload
- Thoroughness and attention to detail with steadiness under pressure
- Energy and tenacity
- Team player
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work with a range of people across the business
Desirable:
- Engineering background and/or academic qualification
Additional / special features of the role:
- Opportunity to influence and help develop new processes within the BD/bid functions
- Opportunity to operate individually and within a team
- Capacity to develop management and commercial skills
- Opportunities for progression
- Opportunities to work across European Space bids
About the Company
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play when managing complex public services.
We are a team of 60,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world, we are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
Why Should You Join Serco ?
- Contribute to innovative projects in the public services sector, and making a difference.
- Your contributions are valued and recognized, with opportunities for professional/personal growth.
- Be part of a company passionate about diversity and inclusion
- Enjoy a friendly and professional environment that respects your work-life balance.
We are diverse and inclusive organisation.
At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to supporting the needs of all our colleagues. It’s a mix of people from different backgrounds, experiences and opinion that keeps our culture strong and vibrant.
We believe in equity so we strongly encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job are encouraged to apply and demonstrate their abilities in an interview. We also welcome a conversation about any adjustments that would make the interview process more accessible for you. Wherever possible we are open to discussions around flexible working and we operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas.
In the UK we are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader in the government’s scheme and hold the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard; in Belgium we are partner of Diversicom and member of Charter der Vielfalt in Germany.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to reach out to The Serco Europe Recruitment Team
Important:
Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.
Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.
Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization.
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