Assistant Manager, Bid Advisor, Growth, Enabling Functions Birmingham, England
Job description
Connect to your Industry
Deloitte LLP is a leading professional services firm employing over 21,000 partners and staff across 23 locations in the UK and generating revenues of over £4.3bn a year. The firm has a large Government and Public Services (G&PS) practice with over 2,500 dedicated partners and staff working across central government, health, education, defence, security and justice, local and regional government, not for profit and public transport.
Deloitte’s &GPS practice is one of the largest and most experienced providers of professional services to public sector clients in the UK and we are a Strategic Supplier to Government. Because of the regulated nature of procurement in the public sector, the firm maintains a specialist team, the Public Sector Bid Team (PSBT), to manage and support its public sector bidding activity.
The PSBT’s objective is to provide a cost-effective means of winning work in a highly competitive marketplace and to contribute to the management of commercial risk. The team also seeks to improve the win rate on public sector bids and assist the practice in achieving its ambitious growth target.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
As a Bid Advisor within the PSBT, you will be responsible for:
- Writing or co-writing compelling content encompassing Deloitte’s unique win themes and differentiators that relate to the client’s needs and objectives
- Managing priority bids within the GPS practice. This may include (but not be limited to) collating bid related information, coordinating submissions, liaising with other support functions e.g. our quality & risk team, commercial support team etc.
- Maintaining quality results by using templates, following bid-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone
- Participating in and/or driving initiatives aimed at developing or improving bid support services, including upskilling of GPS practitioners and drafting/maintaining bid collateral
- Carrying out bid evaluation reviews
- Championing our internal bid process and advising the practice on bid related matters
- Supporting on bid strategy, storyboarding, pitch rehearsals and lessons learned
Responsibilities and priorities of the role may change over time according to the workload of the PSBT.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of bidding in the public sector or of preparing large, structured bids in the private sector
- Ability to follow bid processes and influence/advise stakeholders
- Ability to draft bid content
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and focus on quality/accuracy
- Ability to prioritise workload, meet tight deadlines and work under pressure
- Effective project management and organisational skills
- Ability to evaluate and enhance drafted responses
- Strong interpersonal skills and use of initiative
- Collaborative and strong team player
- Intermediate Word, PowerPoint, Excel skills
Desirable
- Knowledge of public sector procurement and the process of bidding under the UK contracts regulations
- Knowledge of the structure and service models of a professional services firm
- Awareness of the commercial aspects of bidding and how to win
- Good presentation skills
Connect to your business - Enabling Functions
Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
"Deloitte’s a large, complex and fast-paced organisation but it’s open to new ideas. Everyone is encouraged to show initiative and challenge the norm.”
- Lisa, Enabling Functions
Connect to your agile working options
Location: UK Wide, the home office of this role is regional based, excluding London
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
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Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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