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Lyft

Runs a ride-hailing app and bike-share systems

Director, Bid Strategy and Pricing

Proposal ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMontreal, QC, Canada

About the Job

Requirements

  • More than 12 years of experience in roles related to bids, business capture, commercial development, or business development, including more than 5 years leading teams as a senior manager, director, or equivalent.
  • A successful track record with large, complex bids and a strong understanding of sales cycles, customer relationships, and market positioning.
  • Ability to identify opportunities, define bid strategy, and make clear recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Ability to understand and shape technical and operational solutions, engage credibly with experts, and turn requirements into persuasive, feasible offers; comfort with data, business intelligence, and planning tools.
  • Proficiency in financial modeling, pricing, profit-and-loss statements, cash flow, and margin management, and ability to defend bid financials with finance teams and senior leadership.
  • Ability to build high-performing teams and influence senior stakeholders across functions.
  • Professional spoken and written proficiency in French and English; English is required for collaboration with Lyft teams and clients and partners in North America and internationally.

Responsibilities

  • Define commercial strategy with the Chief of Commercial Strategy and Delivery, including target markets, priority regions, and growth priorities.
  • Lead the Commercial Strategy and Demand Planning Manager on planning, pricing policy, business intelligence, and demand planning.
  • Develop business intelligence and bid intelligence covering markets, customers, competitors, and procurement to inform strategy, the opportunity pipeline, and pursuit decisions.
  • Own demand planning and opportunity-pipeline forecasting, aligning bid-team capacity and resources with anticipated opportunities and revenue targets.
  • Own the pre-bid stage-gate process for all opportunities, aligned with commercial strategy and target regions.
  • Develop capture plans for strategic and targeted opportunities to shape them well before bids are published.
  • Recommend whether to bid and present senior leadership with a clear view of strategic fit, the path to success, risks, and financial return.
  • Position each bid to win by defining win themes, value proposition, competitive differentiators, and pricing position at launch.
  • Shape solutions and commercial offers with operations, technical, finance, and legal teams to ensure they are competitive, feasible, and profitable.
  • Develop and challenge financial models, pricing, and bid business cases, ensuring each bid meets agreed margin thresholds.
  • Establish rigorous bid planning with clear milestones, review stages, owners, and deadlines.
  • Lead and develop a high-performing unified team of bid managers, specialists, coordinators, and the Commercial Strategy and Demand Planning Manager.
  • Lead cross-functional bid teams and hold contributors accountable for meeting deadlines.
  • Make timely, confident decisions amid ambiguity, balancing risks and potential gains.
  • Connect sales, bids, contracts, and delivery so that what the organization sells can be delivered profitably.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with APMP or Shipley methodologies.
  • Experience with bids across multiple regions.
  • Experience combining bid work and delivery.
  • Knowledge of a third language.

About the Company

Lyft

Runs a ride-hailing app and bike-share systems

Lyft runs a ride-hailing app that connects riders with nearby drivers in the United States and Canada, and its Freenow app books taxis and other rides across Europe. In 2019, it became the first ride-hailing company to go public in the United States, weeks ahead of Uber. Riders see the price before they book and pay through the app, and Lyft keeps a share of each fare while independent drivers, who use their own or rented cars, earn the rest. Lyft also runs bike-share systems such as New York's Citi Bike, sells ads inside its app, and dispatches self-driving cars from partner companies in some cities. Lyft was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2012

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