About this role
Reporting to the Head of Bids and Frameworks, you will lead the bid process from early presales to proposal submission and then signature. As the COO of your bids, you will direct and inspire your team to produce winning responses. You will have a good understanding of public sector procurement, DDaT principles, market trends and competitor activity to feed into the wider bid strategy. We believe this is an exciting opportunity to work in one of our industry’s most critical and complex functions. Made Tech want to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society, for everyone. We believe being design and product-led can create positive outcomes in the public sector through critical services enabled by technology. We have been through a period of significant growth and are looking to expand to accommodate our future pipeline. That is where you come in. Work closely with our Client Partners, forming a bid leadership team to drive opportunities forward. Influence and collaborate with Made Tech’s wider leadership team to ensure bids align with our ethos, strengths and customer insight. Be accountable for Building, directing and managing the matrixed teams that support individual responses, with minimal support. Take ownership of planning activity and building timelines for the bid, holding team members to account for their input. Coach and support the team on the job, to help them produce the best output and set a standard for quality. Be financially and commercially literate and able to influence those components of the bid. Write well yourself and provide best practice writing guidance and correction for your team Apply knowledge of services and technical offerings to shaping bids and proposals Take learning from retrospectives and use them to improve our biding practices