Marketing and Bid Manager - construction consultancy - Leeds (centre) - £38k-£45k+benefits - fantastic opportunity to join a stable business with a strong order book and team ethic. 

Overall Purpose of Job:
As part of the business support team, to provide support to the Directors and technical members of the team in order to provide excellent service delivery and support the co-ordination of marketing
and tender opportunities and to build the profile of the business.

Duties and responsibilities:

Tender Activities
• Monitoring Contracts Advance, Find A Tender and Contracts Finder for opportunities
• Undertake assessments and agree and with relevant Director opportunities to pursue
• Preparation, co-ordination and management of all framework and project PQQ’s, tenders and presentations
• Internal legal review of framework and tender contracts with in-house legal advisor
• Technical bid writing
• Assessment and scoring of tenders to ensure competitiveness and raise Quality scores
• Assessment of fees to ensure competitiveness and raise Financial tender scores
• Framework tracking and management, including management reports to frameworks
• Tender library maintenance including, references and quotes, corporate CVs, case studies and standard answers
• Group-wide Cyber Essentials, Constructionline/Facillitiesline and CHAS accreditations

Marketing Activities
• Facilitating communications between all offices
• Competitor and market analysis
• Managing website content and social media accounts
• Events and networking management
• Designing and writing literature as required for business purposes such as marketing and sales brochures and web content
• Branding and graphic design
• Press releases
• Identifying and organising required photography
• Managing external suppliers - website host, designers, printers

Social Value Activities
• Work with the team on charity fundraising and volunteering opportunities
• Yorkshire Business Champions liaison
• Social Value Spend Monitoring and Reporting
• Achilles Carbon Reduce Programme accreditation management and audits

General administration duties and responsibilities:
• Issue correspondence on behalf of the business, when appropriate.
• To work on a private and confidential basis when required.
• Support general office processes e.g. cover for holidays, phones, reception cover etc. when required.
• Assist the Group Business Manager when required.


SKILLS / COMPETENCES

Speed & Accuracy
• Ability to produce high quality branded documentation from a variety of formats / drafts with minimal direction.

Communication
• Be an excellent written and verbal communicator to both internal and external peers to deal with all situations, including those of a strictly private & confidential nature.

Organisation
• Provide excellent organisational skills and be proactive to manage a variety of tasks and prioritise own and others workload.

IT
• Have a level of understanding of operating software and design software, e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Adobe InDesign and Abobe Express.

Teamworking
• Ability to manage and work as part of a team to support the delivery of a quality service to a high standard.
• Ability to use own initiative and take responsibility, where appropriate.