Senior Bid Coordinator - #1695100

Ridge and Partners is a growing built environment consultancy focused on helping clients create better, more sustainable places for people to live, learn, work and play.  Our aim is always to deliver outstanding service to clients and provide our people with the support, opportunities, and environments they need to flourish.

We are looking for a curious and confident self-starter with the potential to become a key player in our busiest work-winning team.

What you need to do to be effective in this role

• Responsibility for all stages of the bid cycle
• Working with relevant members of the team to create and craft compelling bid responses that showcase the best that Ridge has to offer
• Researching and gathering inputs from multiple stakeholders, where necessary
• Managing the bid timetable to ensure bid team members respond in line with the bid plan, all deadlines are met, and all bids are compliant and commercially sound
• Reviewing bid documents and pulling together previous relevant bids and best-practice answers
• Proofing and editing colleagues’ bid response documents, ensuring each document contains the required information for a successful bid, with sufficient focus on the quality and innovation we bring to projects
• Working with bid team members to ensure a consistent quality of bids
• Continuously improving and enhancing the standards and effectiveness of our written responses in conjunction with the Bids and Marketing teams
• Preparation of client presentations and capability statements
  
  

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

• Significant experience of delivering quality bid submissions in a fast-paced B2B professional services environment
• Demonstrable experience of producing and coordinating bid responses and draft documents
• Experience preparing submissions across the public and private sectors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Phenomenal attention to detail
• Excellent time management, strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office - InDesign knowledge an advantage
• Experience working with bid portals
  
  

Qualifications

• APMP Certification an advantage