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Bid Manager (APMP)

Job Reference: TS00020

IT
Southampton, Hampshire
Discussed upon application
Permanent

Bid Manager (APMP)

Job Title: Bid Manager / Proposal Manager

Location: 1 / 2 days per week in Southampton office, with 3 to 4 days per week at home

Salary: £50k to £55k per annum

My client is a technology business with offices in Hampshire.

We are looking for a Bid Manager to joing the business to work closely with the Business Development Director

We are looking for a candidate who can work from our clients Hampshire offices 1 day per week, and has an APMP accreditation.

  • Led end-to-end bid life cycle for complex RFPs/RFIs/ITTs, coordinating capture, strategy, pricing, proposal development and timely submission

  • Developed capture plans and win strategies, defined customer-aligned value propositions and clear win themes to increase bid competitiveness.

  • Worked within cross-functional bid teams (sales, solution architects, finance, legal, delivery), drove task ownership, milestones and bid governance.

  • Produced, edited and QA'd high-quality proposals, executive summaries, technical responses and compliance matrices to meet RFP requirements

  • Built pricing and commercial models, performed margin and risk assessments, and prepared bid budgets and approval packs

  • Maintained and optimised bid content libraries, templates and tools (MS Office, SharePoint, CRM, e‑tender portals, CPQ) to improve response efficiency.

  • Ran red-team reviews, conducted stakeholder rehearsals and post-submission debriefs; tracked win/loss metrics and implemented lessons learned.

  • Managed bid schedules and resource allocation under tight deadlines, delivering submissions on time while controlling costs.

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