We seek an experienced Bid Coordinator to join our talented central bid team. The ideal candidate will focus on non-strategic bids in our Environment, Health & Safety & Technology Business Units, with a primary focus on the environment sector. They will coordinate and produce high quality response documents in accordance with our bid management process and to meet the requirements of the client.

Responsibilities also include bid planning, coordinating compliant responses from subject matter experts, document creation and development, organising reviews and approvals, and submission of the bid in line with client timescales.

The role will involve liaison with Opportunity Managers, subject matter experts, and other bid team members.

Our ideal candidate will have at least two years of relevant professional experience, demonstrate good organisational skills and abilities, have a high level of attention to detail and be able to work under pressure.

Job title:

Bid Coordinator

Job Description:

What you’ll be doing:

• Organising and coordinating the activities necessary to produce and submit high quality compliant prequalification questionnaires and tenders associated with non-strategic opportunities.
• Supporting Bid Managers when required in responding to high priority and strategic tenders.
• Monitoring e-portals to ensure our Business Development Community and Bid Teams have early sight of new opportunities and tender information.
• Complying with our established bid management process, including establishing and maintaining opportunity specific Office365 data environments, establishing schedules of requirements, bid plans, and organising progress and quality reviews.
• Actively help maintain our knowledge repository.
• Advocating adoption of good practices and advising Opportunity Managers of gaps in information.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by organising and participating in lessons reviews and sharing lessons learned.

What we’re looking for:

• Good working knowledge and experience of coordinating non-strategic bids, adapting your approach to meet the complexity of the bid.
• Requirements management: Be able to identify the client’s needs to develop a schedule of requirements.
• Planning and Scheduling: Be able to define the fundamental requirements of a bid and produce and maintain schedules of activities to realise the efficient delivery of a bid.
• Resource management: Be able to identify the resources required to deliver a bid.
• Quality management: Be able to plan and coordinate a quality management process to ensure the target quality of a bid is achieved.
• Knowledge management: Be able to identify, share and promote best practices and lessons learned towards creating an environment of continuous improvement.
• Practical experience of complying with governance requirements at various bid stage gates.

About Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure

At Capita Real estate and infrastructure, we create places where people can prosper.

Today, critical infrastructure and public building projects need to be sustainable and environmentally appropriate. They must deliver value for the people that will use them - local communities and businesses - for decades to come. The wide range of demands requires a more holistic approach to design. That’s where we come in.

Our clients rely on our commitment to understanding their challenges and finding smarter solutions, and a broad range of experts offering a distinctively diverse set of skills. Our leadership team, who are practitioners themselves, understand what it takes to deliver.

Our culture is built on over 100 years of delivering excellence and creating solutions for critical infrastructure challenges. This enables us to provide a different perspective and approach; one based on what our clients need and can afford.

From engineering and architectural innovation to environmental sustainability and technologically enabled project delivery, we are renowned for our breadth of expertise and holistic, collaborative approach.

We’re a unique team specializing in infrastructure and buildings; the physical networks which keep the country moving and the places where people and communities can prosper.

What’s in it for you?

• A competitive basic salary
• 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave.
• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice.
• Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks and plenty more.
• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform.

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita.

You’ll be joining a network of 63,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

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What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

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We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.