Company Description
SGS are the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company.
We are recognized as the global benchmark for sustainability, quality and integrity. Our 99,600 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories, working together to enable a better, safer and more interconnected world.
We deliver services that touch every part of human activity and improve millions of lives - from ensuring the safety of food, clothing, transportation, and medicine to better testing in the nuclear industry. Whatever your role, you will make an important contribution to delivering safer products, better services and keeping society connected.
At SGS, we believe in rewarding our employees for their hard work and commitment. As part of our team, you would be eligible for:
- Performance related bonus (discretionary and subject to eligibility criteria)
- Private medical cover (subject to eligibility criteria)
- Competitive pension scheme + Life Assurance
- Generous Annual Leave allowance (increasing with service) plus bank holidays.
- An additional day off for your birthday
- Discounted Gym Membership
- Retailer Discounts
- Access to electric vehicle leasing scheme (subject to eligibility criteria)
- Enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption pay.
- Length of Service Awards
- Christmas Vouchers
- Health & Wellbeing initiatives
Job Description
As the Bid Administrator you'll play a vital role to the tender team, helping to build the strategy for each tender in order to deliver the best chances of success.
Day to day, you'll support the entire tender management process. You'll have direct input into supporting high quality, compelling tender responses formulated to inspire prospective clients to a position of confidence in placing work with SGS.
You'll manage and monitor tender portals and subscriptions to ensure tender opportunities are identified and processed through to timely completion.
Opportunities will be varied both in the service scope being procured and their relative size and complexity, and you will need to be dynamic and versatile in your approach.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and manage the bid process, ensuring deadlines are met.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather necessary information for proposals.
- Analyse bid requirements and prepare comprehensive bid documents.
- Research and identify new business opportunities.
- Contribute to the development of compelling and persuasive proposals.
Qualifications
As a Bid Administrator you'll have proven tender / bid coordination experience (or related role) ideally within the TIC industry, or a company that regularly supply services to large corporate clients with multi-faceted requirements.
Skills required;
- Strong organisational and project management skills.
- Highly results focused and commercially aware and will need to think creatively with the ability to understand both SGS and client operational requirements.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interact with all levels of management, consultants, and clients, with highly developed customer service soft skills.
- Extensive technical tender experience including procurement processes and familiarity with relevant industry tools/software
- Full driving licence for use in the UK.
Additional Information
SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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