Bid Specialist

Description:

Bid Specialist

Location: Hampshire

Sector: Oil + Gas, Nuclear, Hydrogen

Travel: international travel 2x a year dependant on project

Hours: Monday - Thursday; 8.00 am - 5.00 pm (with one-hour lunch break). Friday; 8.00 am - 4.30 pm (with one-hour lunch break).

Benefits: Medical Cash Back Scheme, Life insurance, Perk box, Pension Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Staff Christmas Party, Training and Development opportunities (to include City & Guilds approved training through Electrical Distributors Association), Free Parking

About you!

The right person for this role is a natural in sales and has a entrepreneurial side and has experience as a projects or Bids specialist or has worked in distribution sales, buying and reselling or been involved with a sales process, the commercial element of this job can be taught but the right attitude has to come from you!

Overview:

Our Projects Division specializing in the supply of specialist electrical material to oil and gas projects located across the globe is looking to employ Projects Bid Specialist to join their Projects Sales Team. Working as an integral part of the global project sales function the successful candidate will own, support, and execute multiple crucial functions within the bidding process, as well as take ownership of various projects stages to ensure the submission of winning proposals.

Essentially you will buy and redistribute projects in the oil + gas sector and other energy fields, offer pricing support, create tender document, have commercial knowledge , increase margins and make the bids as risk free.

The clients are mainly middle east, EU or Asia based so you must be able to build rapport with people from different backgrounds and languages.

Main responsibilities to include (but not limited to):

• Developing an understanding our role within the market sector and how we can best position ourselves to be successful.
• Working as part of our global project sales team play a role in the defining of project acquisition strategy.
• Acting as a project focal point in order to share information and drive forward bid creation.
• Managing pre-qualification and bid submission, ensuring that all agreed actions are performed as required and submitted on time.
• Taking ownership of bid documentation to ensure proposals are accurate, free from risk and technically compliant.
• All tasks to be performed in compliance with the Groups Health & Safety and Quality Control systems.

Key Skills, In order to succeed in this role, you will need to:

• Possess a desire to take ownership and responsibility of your work programme to drive forward our global success.
• Be a strong written and verbal communicator, who is confident to build relationships at all levels both up and down the supply chain.
• Have attention to detail, understand why you need to complete a task and how to do it.
• Have experience of working with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Sharepoint etc) and Adobe software packages.
• Want to work as part of a dynamic and focused team.
• Have a desire to become part of our future.