Consultant - Bid Management - Railways Segment - Management Consulting Firm - Contractual

Client - Premium Management consulting firm

Contract Tenure - 1- 1.5 years

Bidding Consultants are responsible for providing their insights and overseeing a bid - a detailed, costed, persuasive proposal - on behalf of one organization to gain a business contract or offer of work from another. Candidate should have worked with railways and should be good in analytics

Responsibilities

Typical tasks include:

- Identifying opportunities on which to submit bids and feeding into the decision over whether to bid for the work

- Devising a successful strategy for winning a bid, including pinpointing the unique selling points (key differentiators) of your organization, knowing your company's operating and profit margins, and understanding the clients- specific requirements (the client, in this case, is the organization that is offering the work)

- Researching, writing, and/or checking proposals

- Working with key members of the project team and the client organization to obtain the information required to compile the bid (in the construction industry, members of the project team may include estimators, quantity surveyors, design managers, and project managers)

- Assessing and addressing the technical and commercial risks relating to the bid they are working on

- Managing budgets or, at a more junior level, tracking costs

- Negotiating with specialist suppliers and/or subcontractors

- Researching the current and future market trends

- Responding to clients and other stakeholders- queries before, during, and after the bid has been submitted

- When more senior, putting together a team to oversee the bid