National Express Group is a leading public transport operator with bus, coach and rail services in the UK, Continental Europe, North Africa, North America and the Middle East. Passengers made 939 million journeys on our services in 2019.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Bid Manager, of our National Express Transport Solutions Group, based in Gillingham. The Bid Manager will be responsible for the management of the bid process for large scale proposals and tenders for the group whilst creating, implementing and reviewing the tender governance process and own and manage future bid pipeline for upcoming opportunities.

As the successful candidate, you will be able to demonstrate significant experience within a Bid Manager/ Bid Writer position. You will, ideally, be PRINCE2 qualified and evidence strong project management skills with the ability to work well in an agile environment. You will have strong commercial acumen along with a very high attention to detail.


What you'll do...

Deliver revenue growth against structured revenue targets and KPIs
Create tender governance process that is regularly reviewed
Lead or facilitate workshops to develop win themes and commercial strategies
Coordinating, collating and presenting pipeline and other information
Build out future pipeline for tender bids and liaise with BD Team for pre-engagement ahead of tender releases
Manage bids and tender submissions, coordinating input from key stakeholders
Attend procurement meetings and presentations where necessary
In-depth knowledge of market sectors and product proposition to ensure strong bids and proposals are submitted
Support the BD Director/Head of BD to set up and maintain a productive system for executing and managing tender documents
Create tender bank of answers which are regularly reviewed and kept up to date
Evaluation reports for tender feedback and using feedback to enhance the future bid process
Update our CRM system (Salesforce) with tender proposals and suggest CRM development to aid bid process and monitoring.
Register on tender portals including DPS ensuring we are capturing all relevant forthcoming tenders and assist with the planning for early client engagement.

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits such as...

Free travel for you and your partner
Company pension
Access to NX Health Bus
Employee Assistance Programme
Variety of deals and discounts available through NX online portal