About the position
Transform Your Career Story with iOCO Infrastructure Services. We are seeking an experienced and strategic BID Consultant/ Manager to lead our bid management team. The successful candidate will be instrumental in overseeing the end-to-end bid process, developing winning proposals, and driving the growth of our business through successful bidding strategies.
What you’ll do:
- End-to-End Bid Life-cycle Management for Strategic and Multi BU Bids.
- Opportunity Qualification.
- Bid Requirement Identification and Articulation.
- Resource/BU Pre-Identification.
- Solution Team Engagement.
- Bid Shaping.
- Opportunity Pursuit Management (interface to upstream (capture planning) and downstream (contracting/handover) processes).
- Bid Project Management.
- Content assimilation and compilation.
Satellite Bid Offices Enablement (support BU internal Bid Office/ Master Classes / Training Academy).
- Bid Risk Identification.
- Pitch preparation.
- Contract renewal strategy and support.
- Strict adherence to bid policy and process and internal and external compliance processes.
Your expertise:
- 3 years of Bid management experience as part of a team responsible for the preparation and submission of expressions of interest and proposals, including the preparation of high-quality visual documents, for major opportunities.
- Public sector tender expertise and knowledge.
- Leading teams.
- Be flexible, able to prioritize, and understand urgency.
- Have a clear understanding and proven use of strategic proposal management processes, including qualification, pre-proposal planning, strategy development, and storyboarding as well as overall proposal project management.
- Have an excellent eye for detail, do not accept second best, and will take personal pride and responsibility for all aspects within their control.
- Have outstanding proposal writing skills, and solid basic graphic design skills, and the ability to turn "raw" information into well-articulated proposal content.
- Have a constant awareness of deadlines.
- Must be able to cope with a substantial amount of responsibility, remain calm under pressure, and read and interpret instructions accurately.
- Have strong business orientation, analysis/ problem solving, negotiation, resilience, and collaboration skills.
- Be diplomatic, tactful, proactive, and someone who will work to gain the trust and respect of all stakeholders.
Qualifications required:
- Relevant tertiary degree or diploma; three-year post-matric qualification.
- APMP Foundation certification.
- Management or leadership qualification.
- APMP accreditation, Project management.
- Relevant public sector tender requirements.
Other information applicable to the opportunity:
- Permanent Position
- Location: Midrand
- Travel: Traveling will be required to deliver BIDs
Why work for us?
If the daily grind makes you wonder if there's more to life than work, get ready to discover a professional journey that embraces excellence without compromise.
You've arrived at iOCO Infrastructure Services (iOCO IS), where we are all about delivering outstanding client experiences through sustainable, innovative IT infrastructure solutions that tackle business challenges head-on. Here you get to partner with clients, helping them conquer their business Goliaths while they focus on scaling their empires.
At our core, we're challengers, disruptors, and innovators. We're a community of skilled professionals with an ambitious spirit dedicated to providing for our clients while finding joy in the process. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do. Their satisfaction fuels our fire and propels us forward. We're talking about brainstorming sessions that sound like TED talks and spontaneous celebrations for achievements, big and small.
Desired Skills:
- Adaptability
- Authenticity
- Partnership
- Ingenuity
- Mastery
