- Acting as a Bid Manager, handling customer bids and supporting the creation of developed quotations documentation as well as a fully costed project model
- Presenting quotation and bid documents alongside the models to senior managers for approval
- Creating an initial schedule with bid resource estimates to enable the accurate generation of agreed low level schedules in return
- Managing allocated projects within the set out timescales and budgets, ensuring that project plans are created with task breakdowns, budgets and schedules
- Ensuring the accuracy of data being used in the project plan and the smooth transition from sales to projects
- Requesting both internal and external resources as needed to complete project related tasks
- Consulting with customers and the business to maintain the project schedule
- Measuring project progress against the set out plan, budget and schedule and gaining formal approval within the project criteria for any negative variance in the profit/revenue or schedule and ensuring that all stakeholders are made aware of any changes to the original project plan
- Developing recovery strategies to action identified project slippages to ensure that planned actions get back on track and can be achieved
- Managing and mitigating project risks, ensuring mitigation plans are created and that customers and the business are looped in when required
- Supporting the management of financial instruments and the generation of invoices against agreed project milestones
- Strong experience within project management, utilising project management techniques and methodologies
- Bid management experience - including the preparation of quotes for clients
- Project management qualification would be ideal but not essential
- Personnel management experience within the context of project management
- Stakeholder management, dealing with individuals at all levels and of mixed disciplines
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project or another project scheduling software
- Analysis skills