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Bid Manager Reviews
What is it like working as a Bid Manager?
May 2015
Constant deadlines and responsible for future margins.
Bid Manager:
Pros: Discussions with colleagues, pricing strategies, flexible work hours.
Cons: Too much trivial excel work, stress level around deadlines.
October 2014
Time Sensitive Project Management Role.
Bid Manager:
Pros: Time management is strict.
High levels of pressure.
Successful outcomes.
Flexibility.
Cons: Work loads fluctuate.
Highly stressful.
Other responsibilities falling outside key role.
March 2014
Bid Management Is Stressful But Has Its Rewards.
Bid Manager:
Get project management qualifications (Association of Project Managers), use what you learn day to day on bids. Ensure you are a member of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals and use their best practice methods. Work on bids that will win, by: a/Starting before you receive the Response for Quotation (RFQ) - focus on what you need to do to win. B/Ensure the business can deliver on their promises. C/ The company is focussed on winning and is going to put in the effort (finance).
December 2013
Bid Manager.
Bid Manager:
Review RFP and its pricing properly.
December 2013
Commercial Bid Management at Morpho.
Bid Manager:
You Need to be extremely well organised.
You Need to be flexible.
You must be a strong communicator understanding what you are responsible for.
You must be able to meet deadlines.
Lead a cross functional global team.
Need to problem solve.
Build strong relationships across the business through being authentic and respectful.
Willingness to go the extra mile.
Need to be flexible with working hours - US West Coast and Asia particularly.
September 2013
Challenging, interesting, sometimes frustration
Bid Manager:
Pros: Good colleagues; interesting scope of work; quite a bit of international travel, medium stress level
Cons: Can be frustrating coordinating across so many teams; tight deadlines
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