A minimum of 3 years’ experience working primarily in UK public sector technology.
A good understanding of agile methodologies and digital transformation, including user-centred design principles.
Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and enable collaboration across functions, and creative writing skills with attention to detail.
The ability to take ownership of work and responsibilities.
Empathy and the ability to build relationships quickly across teams and the organisation.
A conceptual understanding of the technical offering (DDaT).
A proven track record of winning government contracts.
An understanding of social value initiatives and the ability to create and articulate them.
Responsibilities
Lead the bid process from early presales through proposal submission and signature.
Direct and inspire the bid team to produce winning responses.
Use understanding of public sector procurement, DDaT principles, market trends, and competitor activity to inform the wider bid strategy.
Work closely with Client Partners as a bid leadership team to drive opportunities forward.
Influence and collaborate with the wider leadership team to ensure bids align with the organisation’s ethos, strengths, and customer insight.
Build, direct, and manage matrixed teams supporting individual responses, with minimal support.
Own bid planning and timelines, and hold team members accountable for their input.
Coach and support the team on the job to improve output and set a quality standard.
Influence the financial and commercial components of bids.
Write bid content and provide best-practice writing guidance and corrections for the team.
Apply knowledge of services and technical offerings to shape bids and proposals.
Use retrospective learnings to improve bidding practices.
Desired Qualifications
Demonstrable design skills and evidence of design work in Google Suite, with an appetite for leveraging technology to drive efficiency.
Experience specifically in B2B technology services or business process outsourcing.
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
A minimum of 3 years’ experience working primarily in UK public sector technology.
A good understanding of agile methodologies and digital transformation, including user-centred design principles.
Good communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to influence and enable collaboration across functions and a strength in creative writing with an eye for detail.
An ability to roll your sleeves up and be the person to take ownership.
Empathy and the ability to build relationships quickly across teams and across the organisation.
At a conceptual level, understand our technical offering (DDaT).
A proven track record of winning government contracts
An understanding of social value initiatives and an ability to create and articulate them.
Desirable
Demonstrable skills and evidence of design work in Google Suite and an appetite for leveraging technology to drive efficiency
Experience specifically in B2B technology services or business process outsourcing
Behaviours
Client Focus - a need to put the most compelling offer possible in front of the client
Drive to Deliver - able to take ownership of the response, pushing it through the business within the timeframes we have been given
Learning and Mentoring - an appetite to grow and learn while passing on your own experience to your teams and colleagues
Actively seeking feedback on both self, team and systems and processes regularly. Demonstrate positive response to feedback with course correction
One team - contributing to the ongoing improvement of the function at Made Tech, sharing experiences and successes as well as learning points