Job Title: Bid Coordinator

Location: Welwyn Garden City

Pay Rate: £18:50 per hour

Contract Details: Full-time, 6 Month Contract, Hybrid Working

Our client, a leading pharmaceutical company, is seeking a dynamic and detail-oriented Bid Coordinator to join their team. As a Bid Coordinator, you will play a vital role in coordinating and producing proposal documents to secure profitable and sustainable contracts for new and existing customers.

Responsibilities:

• Track and distribute relevant notices published in the OJEU and UK Find a Tender, ensuring compliance with public contract regulations.
• Manage the bid response process using RFPIO, organising and allocating questions, chasing responses, and ensuring timely completion.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including product sales, marketing, finance, legal, and project teams, to gather input and create compelling proposals.
• Ensure proposal documents follow corporate branding guidelines, formatting, and quality standards.
• Maintain and update the bid content library, identifying reusable content to streamline future proposals.
• Support the lessons learned review process to continuously improve bid strategies and outcomes.
• Coordinate the handover of the winning bid to implementation teams for successful delivery.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Educated to A Level in English/Maths or equivalent higher education.
• Successful experience in a business function within the healthcare industry.
• Proven track record in producing and delivering compliant proposal documents.
• Familiarity with public contract regulations and tendering rules.
• Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and analytical capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with attention to detail.
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office and Google products.
• Ability to stay calm and focused in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Capabilities and Skills:

• Customer-centric mindset, dedicated to understanding customer needs and delivering tailored solutions.
• Critical thinker who prioritises tasks based on analysis and can make the right decisions even under pressure.
• Commercially astute, considering profitability and maximising value for the organisation and customers.
• Effective team player with strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, capable of managing multiple bids simultaneously.
• Constantly seeks self-development opportunities and takes initiative to expand knowledge and expertise.
• Champion of talent development, coaching and unlocking the potential of others.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences and present complex ideas clearly.
• Results-driven, consistently tracking progress against key performance indicators and sales metrics.

If you are looking to join a dynamic team in the pharmaceutical industry and have a passion for bidding and proposal coordination, then we want to hear from you! Apply now to become our client's new Bid Coordinator and contribute to their success in securing profitable contracts.

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