Bid Operations Assistant, C&I Strategy Aberdeen, Scotland
Job description
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
This role is at the core of our support function for bidding and reporting across Deloitte’s public sector practice and reports to the Bid Operations Manager.
As a Bid Operations Assistant within the PSBT, you will be responsible for:
- Daily sourcing, logging and circulation of tender invitations and supporting information
- Managing the team’s shared mailbox and responding to bid-related queries from the business
- Maintaining distribution lists for tender notices/invitations and Deloitte’s access to electronic portals
- Entering data into our bid management tool to ensure our master record of tenders is maintained
- Notifying clients of no bid decisions
- Submitting clarification questions, proposals and supporting documents to clients
- Circulating award decisions and bid feedback
- Participating in and/or driving initiatives aimed at developing or improving bid operations
- Championing our internal bid process and advising the practice on bid related matters
- 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
- The ability to work in a fast-paced, high volume environment, where accuracy and attention to detail is essential at all times
- Previous experience undertaking clerical, administrative or data inputting tasks in a high pressured, deadline focused environment
- Exceptional focus on quality/accuracy
- Good communication skills and the ability to interact with people at all levels
- Strong interpersonal skills, use of initiative and ‘can-do’ attitude
- Collaborative and strong team player
- Effective organisational skills
Desirable
- An interest in the UK public sector
- 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
Connect to your service line – 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.
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 (GPS) 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 agile working options
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
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the Deloitte Regional team. You’ll spend most of your time working from home like all of your Regional colleagues in the Enabling Functions, or in a local collaboration space when needed. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon. The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way by enabling flexibility for our people and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
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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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