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Date Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Summary
The Bid Manager is responsible for administering bids in response to request for proposals and ensuring continuous improvement on the quality and success of KK/ GardaWorld bids and proposals submitted.

Key Responsibilities
• Administer and manage bids ensuring that all RFP requirements have been addressed as fully as possible and ensure that the company has given itself its best chance of success;
• Continuously seek business opportunities by reading through the newspapers, online medium, government portals and pick out bid adverts related to any service or goods that KK can participate;
• Arrange to purchase bids documents and produce the tendering plan in liaison with the core tendering team;
• Initiate bid kick-off meetings and determine the scope and timeline of new bids;
• Lead and coordinate the preparation of the bid ensuring that other contributors provide information on time to the correct standard answering the client’s needs to ensure that a winning bid response has been given;
• Provide thought leadership and experience of previous opportunities to the team to influence the bid strategy and approach to the customer.
• Review and revise documents prepared by others and coordinate the preparation of those materials in a completed bid document;
• Take responsibility of submitting a completed bid on time, in an organized fashion and within budget . Attend Pre-bid and tender openings;
• Prepare and submit monthly bids status reports for decision making;
• Take ownership and coordination of contracts – maintaining currency of contracts and ensuring that the contracts are used correctly across the business;
• Participate in other sales and marketing functions in a support capacity as required. Support the SSEs in proposal preparation for tier one bids;
• Research on market dynamics, competition and bid responses to continuously improve the quality and success of KK/GardaWorld bids and proposals;
• Develop and Maintain bid material library and automated management system

Principal Outputs Of This Role
• Effective administration of bids and dispatched 24hrs before the time deadline
• Efficient bid response by ensuring full documentation and bids requirements are submitted
• Improved tender presentation
• Efficient bid documentation

Authority
• Refer to KK/GardaWorld authority matrix

Accountability
• The Bid Manager is accountable to the Senior Manager,CST for the responsibilities stated in this job description. These responsibilities will be monitored and managed through the mid-year and annual performance review and supported through the monitoring of KPIs.

Competencies
• Demonstrate a high degree of sensitivity, confidentiality when dealing with internal and external customers.
• A go-getter, enthusiastic, results oriented with excellent interpersonal, communication and social skills.
• A forward planner with clear focus, well-organized, detail-oriented and able to multi-task
• Have a high sense of accuracy, attention for detail and with strong analytical ability.
• Business acumen, strategic thinker with ability to make sound decisions for the business
• Have good numeracy, problem analysis and reporting skills;
• High moral standing with impeccable integrity; and
• Good market research skills and conversant with the market trends within the industry.

Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor Degree in Business administration or sales and marketing;
• Minimum five (5) years of work experience in bid or contract management or security marketing
• IT proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Solid proposal management experience and good industry-specific knowledge
• Knowledge of document management methods and an understanding of PPAD(Public Procurement and Asset Disposal) laws act 2015


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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