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
About Claranet
Founded at the beginning of the dot com bubble in 1996, our CEO Charles Nasser had a light bulb moment to develop a truly customer-focused IT business. Since then, Claranet has grown from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the UK to being one of the leading business modernisation experts, who deliver solutions across 11+ countries.
At Claranet, we’re experienced in implementing progressive technology solutions which help our customers solve their epic business challenges. We’re committed to understanding their problems, delivering answers quickly, and making a lasting impact to their business.
We are agile, focused and experienced in business modernisation. Our approach helps customers make genuine, significant shifts in their business strategy, to deliver financial savings, boost innovation, and create a resilient business. We continually invest in our people and the latest technologies, so our customers get peace of mind knowing that they have access to the best talent and services.
In the UK we have over 500 staff working in London, Gloucester, Warrington, Bristol, and Leeds, or as homeworkers.
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.
