Bid Manager

Ready to take the next step in your Bid Management career?

Join our Strategic Sales team and play a leading role in shaping and delivering some of Sopra Steria’s most important and high-profile opportunities. Working across the public and private sectors, you’ll collaborate with senior stakeholders, influence strategic pursuits, and help secure business that makes a real difference to our customers and communities. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy turning complex challenges into winning solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

This role is hybrid, with weekly travel to our London office (average 3 days per week).

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and manage end-to-end bid activities across multiple opportunities.
• Coordinate diverse teams to deliver high-quality, compliant, and compelling bid submissions.
• Drive bid governance, planning, and execution to meet challenging deadlines.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Sopra Steria, partner organisations, and suppliers.
• Support the development of winning strategies and customer-focused solutions.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of bid excellence and best practice.

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrable Bid Management experience, working across all stages of the entire bid process with a successful record of accomplishment, winning bids in a competitive market.
• Highly competent in use of MS Office tools.
• Experienced user of project planning software e.g. MS Project.
• Demonstrate a sales orientation with an understanding of bid management best practice.

It would be great if you had:

• Member of Bid Management professional body e.g. Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP).
• Experience of Shipley bid management best practice.
• Knowledge of the Public and Private Sector market.
• Experience in mentoring junior staff

If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Referral Bonus: £1,500

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We are a purpose driven digital transformation provider, creating innovative digital solutions to help clients drive their digital transformation projects and secure tangible and sustainable benefits. We harness the power of innovation to drive positive change in both business and society, delivering sustainable growth and services which make life better, from effective frontline citizen services, to digitising financial services, utilities, and delivering smarter roads.

We place people at the heart of everything we do and are committed to working with our customers, partners and suppliers to shape a better world and add real and lasting social value to the communities in which we work.

Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value.

We are just at the start of what we can achieve together. Come and join us!