Bid Manager

**Bid Manager**:
**Key Information**

**Role Title**

Bid Manager

**Location**

Ottawa, Canada

**Duration**

Full Time / Exempt

**Position Overview**

If you’ve set your heart on a career in IT and especially Bid/Proposal Management, join Computacenter as a Bid Manager in **Ottawa** and you’ll find there’s everything in place for you to realize your ambitions.
Provide a Bid Management service to the business that follows the company bid process and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a bid to deliver comprehensive and complete documentation that meet our customers’ exact requirements.
On opportunity basis, from Qualification to Authority to Contract, as part of a bid team with focus on opportunities with regular complexity with regard to scope, legal and commercial criticality as well as scope of transition/transformation.

**Duties/Responsibilities**
- Partners with business leaders to deliver services that support company objectives and that are consistent with Winning Together values

Project Management
- Preparation and planning of bids including resources, project plan, work packages, milestones, deadlines
- Planning and controlling of internal communication in the bid team and with other stakeholders in the organization
- Management and controlling of the virtual team and operational management of bid projects (in-time, in-Quality, In-budget, resource, deliverables / Products) with the focus on the coordination of tasks in the Bid team as applicable
- Make sure that the relevant governance and approval processes take place within the bid lifecycle
- Tracking of agreed internal and external delivery dates and ensuring completeness and consistency of the content that will be submitted to the customer

Document Management
- Preparation and implementation of activities for the development and documentation of bid strategy, differentiators, win themes, key messages and content for proposal and presentation
- Planning and controlling of the handling the documents (filing structure, naming conventions, responsibilities)
- Document management for the offer and contract to agreed standards Ensure deliverables and presentations meet company formatting and quality standards
- Use Bid Story and Presentation Story tools to create win themes, differentiators and clear value propositions and make sure that they are applied throughout our campaign
- Collects, prepares and integrates standard proposal content as well as customized content for the customer
- Adaption of customer-specific references
- Support of customer specific campaigns, coordination of marketing support
- Closure of bid projects (provision of content for re-use into standard knowledge & bid libraries)
- Management and participation of/in projects to increase effectiveness / efficiency of presales projects
- Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values.

**Reporting**

This position will report to the Director of Proposals and Sales Centre

**Education & Experience Required**
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 7 - 10 years of experience in the field of Bid Management and Proposal Development
- Legally eligible to work in Canada.
- Eligible for Federal Government Secret Clearance

**Skills & Competencies**
- Strong proficiency in document management using Office 365 tools including SharePoint
- Very good communication skills and ability to ‘lead’ small to medium size groups
- Messaging - creativity with storylines and using different messaging mediums
- Deal Based marketing concepts and contribution beyond specific proposal responses
- Continuous Improvement philosophy

**LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER**

**This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties requested by their supervisor in compliance with Federal and State Laws.**:
**Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty proficiently. Continued employment remains on an “at-will” basis.