Bid Executive

Bid Executive Fluent French & English essential £30,000 Eynsham, Witney We are recruiting on behalf of a fantastic organisation who are looking for a French speaking Bid Coordinator to join their passionate and collaborative team. The company offer an excellent working environment with flexible working offered after the initial training period, 25 days holiday and continuous training and development. The Role: This is a key pre-sales role, which involves working closely with the Relationship Managers, Business Proposition Owners and Project Managers. The main part of the role is to increase the chances of winning business, look after business development, whilst managing the cost of the sales effort and providing great customer service. You will be looking after business development leads and potential prospects, regarding tenders, bids and requests for information etc. You will be doing this via email and over the phone. Fluent spoken and written French and English is essential as the role involves liaising with both offices in both Eynsham and in Paris. The Job: Support the maintenance of central bid resource planner for co-ordination of all bids Take a lead role on French language bids Attend weekly pipeline meeting, ensuring all data is updated for your bids in advance Arrange, attend and document bid planning meetings Arrange, attend and document client briefing calls Taking ownership for bids you are leading on, project management of all aspects of the bid process, ensuring all stakeholders understand what they are contributing, by when and how Managing bid portals, expressing interest and loading responses Preparing first draft proposals and presentations based on the client’s tender documentation Previous experience: Experience in a sales/business development/marketing role, preferably in the professional services industry Experience of working on bids, tenders, presentations, bidding portals desirable but not essential Experience in telephone sales follow ups Experience interacting with senior level decision-makers or executives Experience of managing projects and multiple stakeholders and conflicting deadlines Ideal candidates: Will have excellent attention to detail and strong organisation, planning and prioritisation skills including excellent MS Office skills particularly PowerPoint. You must be fluent in French and English. Due to location you will ned to drive and own a vehicle, there is plenty of free parking onsite. This is a full time and permanent role with a 37.5 hour working week. Better People Ltd is an equal opportunities employer. If you do not hear from one of our consultants within 7 days of applying for this role, please assume you have been unsuccessful in this instance. Your CV will be kept on file and you will be considered for future vacancies that match your skills. By applying you will register as a candidate with Better People Ltd. We will never send your CV anywhere, without your express permission. Our Privacy Policy explains how we will use your information. Please refer to ou