Head of Bidding - Transport

Have you got proven experience of leading & delivering high and medium-value bids, ideally in a services or solutions environment? Have you got senior leadership skills with demonstrable experience of building a winning and high performing bid team? If so, we want you!

telent are currently recruiting for a Head of Bids on the Transport side of our business - this is a role where you will have a chance to really make a difference and make also help influence the growth of our sucsessful business!

You will be responsible for the end to end management & production of timely, high quality and ultimately successful bids in keeping with telent's bid procedures. This will include leading Opportunities through and producing material for Go/No Go stage through to deal review and submission.

Who is telent?
* telent is a technology partner to some of the biggest names in the rail sectors including London Underground, Network Rail and Transport for London providing maintenance and management of our customers assets to ensure continued and reliable service is maintained for their critical communications infrastructure.

What will you be responsible for?
* Reporting to the Business Development Director, you will be responsible for leading & managing bids and tender submissions for the Transport business.
* Managing and leading a Bid Team you will plan the necessary resources to bid for opportunities as agreed with the Business Development Director.
* You will have full responsibility for ensuring that resources are utilised effectively & efficiently across the business to maximise opportunities the business decides to pursue.
* You will continually monitor the costs being incurred by the business throughout the Bid process and will seek an on-going improvement in telent's "return on bid investment"
* Developing relationships with existing and potential customers including site based meetings and presentation.
* Accountability for Bid team performance, KPIs and SLAs.
* Bid team workload planning, bid forecasting, cost and win/loss tracking & reporting
* Bid reviews - won & lost - including recommendations for improvement.

What experience are telent looking for?
* Extensive experience of managing and leading a high performing and efficient Bid team, driving efficiencies, reviews and continual improvement ultimately leading to an improved Bid/Success conversation rate.
* Experience of leading and producing winning bids to Public Sector in an environment such as Traffic, Rail, Intelligent Transport System, Defence and Emergency Services markets.
* Financially astute with ability to create & interpret financial reports and models.
* Ability to present, persuade and influence at all levels via strong interpersonal communications skills

Location and the benefits of working for telent:
* You will be working from our Head office in Warwick - Free onsite parking available!
* telent is not just about offering competitive reward packages, we are committed to personal and professional development, career and succession planning and striving to be the best we can be. We offer 33 days holidays (includes public holidays), company pension scheme, telent rewards (discounts to major retailers and cinema tickets) and a range of family friendly policies.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.
telent is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion.