Bid Manager

Location

Lancing, West Sussex | United Kingdom

Job description

The Agena Group was formed in 2019 as a UK based multi-disciplinary company. We specialise in parking and software solutions.

Our mission is to disrupt industry norms, to innovate, and to provide professional, ethical, customer-focused services.

We provide a wide range of parking management services to help businesses in all sectors. Whether you’re running a 10-space car park or a group of large, complex multi-purpose car parks, our experienced team can help. We go further than a traditional car park management company, working in collaboration with our clients. Our solutions make your life easier, help grow your business, and protect your reputation. Our approach is flexible, based on the needs of our clients.

We’re working hard to raise standards within the parking industry, and to promote regulatory compliance. There are currently four companies in the group, with an ambitious growth plan over the next three to five years.

Agena is run by an experienced and focussed leadership team. We are passionate about the services we provide and making a difference to our clients. We invest heavily in our people to provide them with opportunities for growth and development, with dedicated programmes designed to help our employees fulfil their true potential.

Agena takes pride in the quality of solutions that we provide, the expert knowledge of our staff and the strong partnerships we have with our customers. We support our clients with data insights to help make more informed choices about parking assets and looking for opportunities to drive incremental, sustainable, revenue growth.

We’re here to help you think differently about parking.

Do you have bid co-ordination or bid management experience? Are you looking for a new challenge and want to join a market leading organisation?

Then we might have the opportunity for you!

We are looking for a Bid Manager who wants to work for a market leading organisation, producing winning bids across a diverse range of sectors within the parking industry from the NHS and Higher Education to Retail and Commercial, offering bespoke products and solutions to our clients. This means co-ordinating and producing high-quality, compliant responses to tenders. The role will work with our Business Development, Commercial, Operations and Technology teams to create winning bid responses. Working with Agena, you will learn about the various business units, build industry knowledge and develop a set of strong company skills across all departments. We are looking for an individual with drive, someone who wants a challenge, takes initiative and isn’t afraid of pushing boundaries.

Responsibilities and Duties

Responsible for the end-to-end tender and bidding process on public and private sector opportunities with the aim of presenting the Agena Group (UK Car Park Management, Premier Park and Atria) as the partner of choice and securing profitable contracts which add value to the company income stream.

• Lead the bid strategy
• Ensure all tenders meet internal milestones and submission deadlines
• To lead in the preparation, review and submission of each tender with the Bid Team
• To monitor activity in the market to ensure we maximise our tender potential
• Working alongside/challenging the sales team for win themes and strategies
• To establish the bid evaluation programme and chair progress review meetings with key stakeholders across the business
• To increase value through an understanding of customer drivers and targeting suitable proposals
• To identify and employ innovative solutions to add value to each individual bid
• To secure and communicate balanced feedback to improve future bids
• To ensure any terms, conditions and fees are agreed for any third parties (working alongside the commercial team)
• To understand contractual, commercial and legal processes relating to contracts
• To work alongside the Project Manager to facilitate the handover of successful projects to the wider business upon contract award

Who you are

• Demonstratable bid writing experience
• Bid management and strategy experience
• Approaches situations with an open and curious mind, taking on challenges with an eye for opportunity.
• Ability to take complex problems, simplify them and thinking creatively to solve them.
• Demonstrates an eagerness to establish a long-term career with the Agena Group.

Salary : £40,000 - £45,000 DOE

Hours : Monday - Friday 9am - 5.30pm

Location : Lancing/Newton Abbott/Stafford available as a hybrid working pattern

What we offer 

We know there’s more to life than work – that’s why when you join the Agena Group, you’ll get your pick of our amazing company perks through our Perkbox benefits platform. That includes discounts on cinema tickets, travel bookings, high street e-vouchers, gift cards, days out, leisure activities and your day-to-day spending. You’ll also benefit from:

• Incremental holiday increases to recognise long service
• 24/7 access to The Wellness Hub, an app designed to support your personal wellbeing from help with sleep and workout videos to guided meditations and access to talking therapies.
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential, independent and professional counselling
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Regular team/company socials

In addition to this our Engagement Committee regularly organise inclusive team events from breakfasts for charity, social drinks in your local office location to book clubs, environmental initiatives, and lunch and learns.

 Additional Information 

• Our selection process is as follows: Application – Competency Based Interview – Presentation
• You must be able to legally live and work in the UK
• The postholder will be required to travel to external meetings on occasion by most effective means available
• This role is available as part of a hybrid working environment.

Why you will love the Agena Group 

The Agena Group is a multi-disciplinary group. We provide car parking and related software solutions across the UK and wider markets. With four office locations and a large hybrid and remote workforce we believe that organisations are made by people, and they are key to achieving business goals.

We’re here to help our clients to think differently about parking. Our cutting edge solutions help clients be more successful by optimising the value of important physical assets through integration with technology. Innovation is a differentiator for us and our clients ensuring we develop strategies and solutions that are sustainable, future-proof, market-creating, customer experience focused and commercially attractive.

We connect everything: people, processes and data. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies and we do it in style with unique personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the work. 

The Agena Group are proud to be part of the Disability Confident scheme. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format, or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact [email protected]

(No agency assistance required, please do not make speculative contact)

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£40k - £45k per annum