Bids & Tender Writer
The successful applicant will identify suitable tender opportunities for Origin, and be able to format compelling proposals to bring revenue into the business. The job will require you to be proactive and capable of creating bespoke high quality tender submissions that meet customers’ needs and aspirations.
You will be required to work closely with sales, marketing, product and operational teams to produce and submit bids, tenders and customer proposals between a variety of purchasing portals and Microsoft documents to a high standard and ensuring that you are outlining Origin Fitness’s product offering and achieving successful outcomes.
Location: HQ | Newbridge
Salary: £26,000 - £30,000
Contract Type: Full Time.
Company Overview
We are an innovative, growing company working towards our vision of being the best commercial fitness equipment supplier in the UK. We are passionate about delivering the best customer experience and pride ourselves on building lasting relationships with our customers.
Our core company values drive our strategy and behaviours, creating a positive culture within the business. Find out more about the company by visiting our vision and values.
Responsibilities
- Crafting high quality submissions with a laser focus on achieving a high win rate. This includes preparing, researching, producing and submitting all Bids & Tender documentation promptly through procurement portal delivery channels.
- Ability to make an informed decision on the tenders that the company are or are not involved in, and justify this to key stakeholders.
- Communicating requirements, deadlines & expectations to key stakeholders across the business.
- Liaising with and supporting the relevant sales, product and marketing team members to ensure all required information is in place prior to deadlines.
- Utilise procurement websites, portals, the tender inbox and notification services to identify new opportunities to tender for.
- Manage pipelines & report on activity through excel spreadsheets or similar, making information available for all tender stakeholders.
- Have an extensive knowledge of our product and service offerings.
- Ensure that sales support content is up-to-date, tidy and ready for the sales team to utilise.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive information database, including case studies, customer references, and essential information.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Project management – managing timelines, coordinating with different stakeholders
- Creativity – develop innovative solutions and presenting them in a compelling way
- Decisiveness – ability to make a research based judgement call on whether opportunities are right for the business
- Collaborating – working well as part of a wider team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills – being able to craft clear, concise and persuasive content
- Meticulous attention to detail - excellent editing and proofing quality and be able to follow tender guidelines
- Good memory recall
- High level organisational skills
- Deadline driven with good time management skills
- Willingness to learn and understand our product ranges so you can then to be able to identify the most suitable opportunities to tender for.
- Ability to research and analyse relevant market developments
- Self-Starter
- Good Computer literacy (word, excel, power-point, PDF, email etc)
- Previous use of procurement portals
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Previous bids & tender experience
- Previous use of Salesforce or similar CRM systems
- A passion for the fitness industry and a good knowledge of general gym equipment, with eagerness to learn our full product and service offering.
- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
Find out more at originfitness.com/working-at-origin.
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