Business Development - Bid Manager
Description✓Who we are:
✓Avove is a new, independent utilities infrastructure business, formed from the utilities division of leading infrastructure services company, Amey.
✓We design, build and maintain the UK’s utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better.
✓We are proud to work in partnership with our clients, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Scottish Water, Northern Powergrid and Scottish Power.
✓The Role
✓We understand the impact our work has on our society and the environment
✓It’s the difference we make that improves people’s lives and helps the economy to grow
✓We work alongside our customers to deliver resilient, bespoke infrastructure solutions that keep the taps running, the energy flowing and people connected
✓The work we do together matters.
✓Here within Avove we have an opportunity for a Bid Manager to join the Severn Trent Business Development team
✓The role will have a joint function; 70% of the role will be to support bid management/business development, the other 30% of the role will be to support our KPI reporting and process improvements.
✓You will be working on the Severn Trent account and seeking opportunities for new business elsewhere too
✓You will be assessing performance metrics to drive key improvements across the operational, design and commercial teams, and implementing improvements to processes.
✓Key responsibilities:
✓* Promoting a culture of continuous improvement through engagement with business leaders and staff at all levels and the provision of the infrastructure needed to enable innovation across the business.
✓* Delivering improvement, supporting the prioritisation of improvement effort by developing, reviewing, and analysing KPI's, contract and functional performance management and other management information.
✓* Providing support for bid opportunities with a specialism in one or more of the following: change control, quality management, risk and issue management, project knowledge and reporting.
✓* Provide effective management services to the bid, ensuring that decisions are recorded, risks and issues documented, and plans are maintained.
✓* Understanding bid requirements, translating, and presenting them in a structured format and articulating them to team members.
✓Skills and Experience
✓* Has delivered improvement projects and/or worked within improvement programme teams.
✓* Highly organised, able to prioritise and engage with a range of key stakeholders
✓* Strong communication skills - previous experience of presenting report findings to senior leaders
✓* Structured problem-solving analysis and reporting - using Excel and Powerpoint
✓* Ideally has gained experience within a relevant sector
✓Qualification
✓* ‘A’ level education or equivalent Degree level or equivalent qualification preferred.
✓Benefits:
✓We offer a competitive salary that is based on proven skills and experience
✓Hard work is celebrated and rewarded
✓We recognise that one size doesn’t fit all so everyone has access
✓to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.
✓* Min
✓24 days holiday plus statutory holidays [option to buy more]
✓* Company pension scheme
✓* Life assurance
✓* A selection of lifestyle benefit options
✓* Financial well-being programme
✓* Employee assistance program for health and well-being and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
✓* We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity-matched giving where we will boost your fundraising
✓Our main value is to “Move Life Forward” and we are committed to developing our colleagues and encouraging personal growth, in conjunction with a flexible working approach so everyone can thrive in an inclusive and open environment.
✓We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can
✓We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates independently through all stages of the recruitment process Show more →
✓Avove is a new, independent utilities infrastructure business, formed from the utilities division of leading infrastructure services company, Amey.
✓We design, build and maintain the UK’s utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better.
✓We are proud to work in partnership with our clients, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Scottish Water, Northern Powergrid and Scottish Power.
✓The Role
✓We understand the impact our work has on our society and the environment
✓It’s the difference we make that improves people’s lives and helps the economy to grow
✓We work alongside our customers to deliver resilient, bespoke infrastructure solutions that keep the taps running, the energy flowing and people connected
✓The work we do together matters.
✓Here within Avove we have an opportunity for a Bid Manager to join the Severn Trent Business Development team
✓The role will have a joint function; 70% of the role will be to support bid management/business development, the other 30% of the role will be to support our KPI reporting and process improvements.
✓You will be working on the Severn Trent account and seeking opportunities for new business elsewhere too
✓You will be assessing performance metrics to drive key improvements across the operational, design and commercial teams, and implementing improvements to processes.
✓Key responsibilities:
✓* Promoting a culture of continuous improvement through engagement with business leaders and staff at all levels and the provision of the infrastructure needed to enable innovation across the business.
✓* Delivering improvement, supporting the prioritisation of improvement effort by developing, reviewing, and analysing KPI's, contract and functional performance management and other management information.
✓* Providing support for bid opportunities with a specialism in one or more of the following: change control, quality management, risk and issue management, project knowledge and reporting.
✓* Provide effective management services to the bid, ensuring that decisions are recorded, risks and issues documented, and plans are maintained.
✓* Understanding bid requirements, translating, and presenting them in a structured format and articulating them to team members.
✓Skills and Experience
✓* Has delivered improvement projects and/or worked within improvement programme teams.
✓* Highly organised, able to prioritise and engage with a range of key stakeholders
✓* Strong communication skills - previous experience of presenting report findings to senior leaders
✓* Structured problem-solving analysis and reporting - using Excel and Powerpoint
✓* Ideally has gained experience within a relevant sector
✓Qualification
✓* ‘A’ level education or equivalent Degree level or equivalent qualification preferred.
✓Benefits:
✓We offer a competitive salary that is based on proven skills and experience
✓Hard work is celebrated and rewarded
✓We recognise that one size doesn’t fit all so everyone has access
✓to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.
✓* Min
✓24 days holiday plus statutory holidays [option to buy more]
✓* Company pension scheme
✓* Life assurance
✓* A selection of lifestyle benefit options
✓* Financial well-being programme
✓* Employee assistance program for health and well-being and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
✓* We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity-matched giving where we will boost your fundraising
✓Our main value is to “Move Life Forward” and we are committed to developing our colleagues and encouraging personal growth, in conjunction with a flexible working approach so everyone can thrive in an inclusive and open environment.
✓We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can
✓We recognise talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates independently through all stages of the recruitment process Show more →