Business Development Officer at Adold Engineering Company Limited

Job Summary

• We are looking to employ a Female Business Development Officer to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Taking a lead writing role in some bids
• Work with the Bid Team to create, review and edit bid documents/presentations to meet specified evaluation criteria
• Upload and submit bid documentation via tender portals and monitor portals for tender outcomes, chasing if required
• Keep track of work won under procurement frameworks and collate and submit accurate and timely management information as required
• Identify and qualify suitable tenders (through scanning of tender notifications, working with partner organisations and qualifying direct approaches) and raise these with the Director Team; facilitate discussion and agreement regarding the bid decision
• Seek and share feedback from clients regarding both successful and unsuccessful bids
• Ensure lessons are learned between proposals and communicated across the company, carrying out detailed analysis to ensure the correct opportunities are progressed to maximise win rate and return on investment
• Support the development and continuous improvement of company bid process
• Ensure there is development and delivery of training sessions and workshops on the tender process and best practice
• Track, monitor and forecast spend per framework to support business planning.

Requirements
The successful candidate will have:

• Previous experience in a similar business development role.
• HND/University degree in Marketing or related disciplines required
• Experience of business development in the public sector, including using procurement frameworks
• Proposal writing in a private and public-sector setting
• Strong writing skills
• Experience of providing quality assurance on written materials, including proposals, presentations, etc.
• Experience of collecting, analysing and reporting quantitative and qualitative management information
• Experience of successfully managing and challenging internal stakeholders to ensure correct and accurate information
• Experience of facilitating meetings and workshops
• Experience of working within a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience of contributing towards corporate sales and marketing strategies
• Experience of business development within a construction environment
• Experience of the local government consultancy market, in either a managerial or delivery capacity