Senior Bid Executive

A growing Top 100 law firm is looking for a Senior Bid Executive to join its Business Development and Marketing team. This is a great opportunity to work somewhere that offers top-quality work, excellent career prospects, and a genuinely healthy work-life balance in a supportive environment. You'll be joining a small, close-knit Bids team (part of an 18-strong Sales and Marketing department) that works well together, supports each other's development, and has a strong reputation across the wider firm.

You'll have frequent exposure to senior partners and fee earners giving you a genuine opportunity to build your profile in the firm.

This role can be based in either Birmingham, Exeter, Leeds, London, Manchester or Winchester office (Hybrid Working).

• Monitoring procurement portals for potential opportunities and carrying out initial filtering
• Holding kick-off meetings and pursuing content for bids
• Project managing a wide range of bids
• Working closely with partners to develop winning strategies and propositions
• Drafting, synthesising, editing and proofreading compelling content, including technical content
• Preparing CVs and team sheets
• Setting up presentation rehearsals and guiding presentation teams
• Developing presentation support material
• Conducting win/loss reviews and identifying themes for improvement
• Gathering best-practice content and case studies
• Managing and maintaining the team's bids database and resources
• Liaising with other support functions to keep standard documentation and policies up to date
• Ensuring the firm's bids governance process is followed
• Championing use of the CRM system for opportunity management
• Supporting other projects as needed

• Relevant bids experience, with the ability to manage your own portfolio of bids
• Ability to draft and synthesise content and not just project-manage
• A sound understanding of the complexities of bid management
• Commercial awareness
• Ability to coach and influence at partner level
• Strong project management skills
• Technical proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Willingness to get up to speed with the firm's sectors and services
• Confidence working with figures and explaining scoring mechanisms
• Willingness to undertake some limited travel between offices
• Experience with graphic design principles for bids (desirable)
• Experience in Public Sector bidding (desirable)