Senior Bids and Tender Manager

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Role: Senior Bids and Tender Manager</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Sector: 3PL Contract Logistics</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Location: Swadlincote/UK - This role offers a flexible location across the UK, with midlands travel 2-3 days a week.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Package: £75,000 - £90,000 + £6k Car / Allowance, 15% Bonus & Package</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">The Company</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Loom Talent have been engaged by an established global 3PL provider, who have a primary focus on delivering unrivalled levels of service and innovative warehousing & transport solutions across the UK. The business boasts an already impressive UK customer portfolio spanning; Retail, E-Commerce, Fashion and FMCG.</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Key Duties of a Senior Bids and Tender Manager</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">End-to-End Bid Management - Lead the full bid life cycle - from qualification and strategy development to submission and post-submission clarifications.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Tender Qualification & Risk Assessment - Evaluate bid opportunities for strategic fit, commercial viability, and operational deliverability, ensuring alignment with business capability and risk appetite.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Bid Strategy & Solution Design - Collaborate with commercial, operations, finance, and IT teams to develop compelling, cost-effective, and innovative logistics solutions tailored to client needs.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Commercial Modelling & Pricing Oversight - Lead the creation of pricing models and costings, ensuring accuracy, competitiveness, and profitability across multi-site and multi-service solutions (e.g. warehousing, transport, value-added services).</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Content Creation & Proposal Writing - Write and develop high-quality, persuasive, and compliant tender responses, executive summaries, and supporting documentation aligned to client specifications.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Stakeholder Engagement & Project Management - Coordinate cross-functional internal teams and manage time lines to deliver high-quality bid submissions on time and in full.</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Client Interface & Clarification Handling - Engage with prospective clients to clarify requirements, present bid strategies, and support negotiation processes where required.</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Market Intelligence & Benchmarking - Stay abreast of industry trends, competitor activities, and market pricing to inform bid positioning and decision-making.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Continuous Improvement - Drive bid process enhancements, maintain a library of proposal content, and implement lessons learned for future submissions.</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Governance & Compliance - Ensure all bids comply with internal governance, legal, and commercial standards, as well as any regulatory or contractual requirements.The Candidate</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">The successful candidate for the Senior Bids and Tender Manager - 3PL Contract Logistics opportunity will have the following skills and experiences:</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">A Logistics Distribution and Supply Chain Background, ideally in 3PL contract logistics</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Understanding of Warehouse Operations</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Prior commercial knowledge of the UK logistics and warehousing market</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Previous experience managing a team</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">A minimum of 3+ years Bids or Tender management experience</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Previously managed Tender processes in excess of £10m</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">The ability to create solutions minded teams to collectively collaborate to provide industry leading solutions</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">A proven ability to create and successfully present to prospective clients</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">An individual truly excited by large scale growth challenges</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">The Package</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Salary - £75,000 to £90,000</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Company Car / Car Allowance (£8,000).</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">15% Company Bonus Scheme.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">25 Days + 8 Bank Holidays.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Pension Contributions.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Private Health Care.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Annual Salary Life Assurance.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Plus additional company benefits.Apply</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">If you're ready to take ownership of the full bid lifecycle, develop winning strategies and play a key role in securing high-value logistics contracts, this could be the opportunity for you</p>