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Are you an experienced Bids and Tenders Executive with a passion for winning new business? Do you enjoy a fast paced, busy environment? Would you like to work for one of the top legal firms in the Midlands? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
A leading legal firm based on Hagley Rd, Birmingham, is currently looking for a Bids and Tenders Executive to join their fun and friendly sales and marketing team.
Benefits:
- Salary up to 35,000
- Location: Birmingham
- Hours of work 9am to 17.15pm
- 36.5 hours per week
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Hybrid working available 3 days office based.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage all portal communications including the firm's annual submissions into directories and B2B tender portals for ad hoc opportunities.
- Lead on the firm's submissions for legal directories and maintain a tracker of historical rankings.
- Liaise with Fee Earners and other departments, collate information and draft the submission documents.
- Prepare tender proposal, including, logging key dates in stakeholders' calendars and monitoring progress to meet deadlines.
- Ensure all new opportunities are accurately captured on in-house systems.
- Organise and maintain various electronic folders containing copies of tenders, presentations, a range of company policies, a suite of standard responses and other reference material, including potentially confidential data.
- Research and analyse industry trends, priority sectors and competitive landscapes.
- Preparing and sending introductory emails to prospects
- Undertake and monitor research as required to provide support for Fee Earners and the business development team.
- Develop presentation and proposal materials for client pitches.
- Review and analyse incoming 'new client enquiries' (email, phone and web form)
- Assist with maintaining and updating business contacts (clients & prospects)
- Develop and maintain highly useful and efficient administrative systems, reports, analyses and dashboards.
Skills/Experience required:
- Previous experience in a similar role.
- Experience of working with tender portals.
- A proven business development professional with a minimum 3 years of project management experience, ideally within professional services, and ideally with a sound knowledge of Intellectual Property.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and relevant software. Excel, Word, PowerPoint. Additional design skills would be desirable.
- Experience of using social media platforms for research purposes, eg LinkedIn Premium/Sales Navigator.
- Excellent technical skills to navigate the various IT systems and an ability to review and interpret data
- A solid education background with a relevant business or marketing qualification.
- Excellent verbal communication and writing skills in English. A high GCSE grade in English Language is required as a minimum.
If this sounds like you, please apply today! :)
