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We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

We are currently recruiting for a talented Bid Manager to join our Business Development and Marketing team on a 12-month fixed term contract.

In this role, you will be responsible for managing the end-to-end process for RfP/ITTs and bids, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, compelling bids & proposals that meet the firm’s business objectives. You will work within the Business Development team and will collaborate with practice aligned business development colleagues to secure new business opportunities.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Proposal Development: Create, develop, refine and write persuasive and tailored proposals that ensures consistency of tone, addresses client needs and highlights the firm’s strengths. You will also be required to further develop proposal templates and content to enable BD & fee earners to self-serve.
• Strategic Planning: Work with Partners to scope opportunities and develop and implement bid strategies that align with the firm’s business goals.
• Collaboration: Coordinate with business development teams, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to gather necessary information and insights for bids and proposals.
• Opportunity analysis: provide advice on win themes, differentiators, and strategic positioning.
• Content Management: Ensure content is routinely captured and stored for future use. Identify content gaps and actively work to overcome.  Create frequently used content, boilerplates and firmwide content and make available for others to use across different channels.
• Innovation: Ensure the best use of available technology is applied to enhance the delivery and consistent quality of response documents and content.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure all bids and proposals are compliant with client requirements and internal standards through execution of bid procedures, governance and process, including bid feedback and lessons learnt.
• Post-Bid Review: Conduct post-bid reviews and debriefs to identify areas for improvement and share best practices across the team.

We're looking for a Bid Manager who is proactive and has the ability to build good working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. Our ideal candidate will have the following:

• Demonstratable experience in bid management, preferably within the legal or professional services sector.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, and compelling proposals.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple bids simultaneously and meet tight deadlines.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• A skilled communicator, who adapts style to meet the differing needs of the audience.
• A team player with the ability to drive collaborative working and to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• A proactive professional, who plans and prepares to push efficiencies within the bidding process.
• Confident stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge, and build strong working relationships with senior partners.

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.