Bid & Business Development Manager

Do you have excellent business development skills and the ability to line manage? We’re looking for a Bid & Business Development Manager to support the management of the Business Development team, and the successful delivery of our Business Development objectives. Apply now!

Location: Hybrid

Contract: Full time permanent

Salary: £35-£40,000 depending on experience

Closing date: Interviewing on a rolling basis - please apply as soon as possible for your application to be considered.

The Role

Itad’s Bid & Business Development Manager plays a key role in supporting the management of the Business Development teams, and the successful delivery of our BD objectives. This role supports our growth through managing the process of identifying business opportunities, building relationships and developing proposals.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Effective line management of Business Development team members;
• Managing all aspects of the bidding process;
• Coordinating the preparation and submission of key proposals;
• Managing the process of identifying bidding opportunities;
• Monitoring and improving bidding processes;
• Ensuring Itad quality standards are met;
• Marketing Itad to external partners and associates.

Our Benefits

We offer:

• A matched company pension up to 5%.
• 26 days holiday per year, plus a further 3 flexible days and public holidays which you can take whenever you want to.
• Continuous learning: you will have access to our online training, as well as induction programmes and the opportunity to attend company training.
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme

Our office is easily accessible, close to public transport and dog friendly.

What next

We are looking for someone who has:

• Experience working in business development preparing technical and financial business tenders
• Eagerness to manage others and be responsible for supporting continuous learning and development
• Experience of working effectively in a team
• Comfortable sharing information to help key stakeholders develop they understanding and learning
• Demonstrated experience in ensuring that quality standards and processes are applied
• Excellent qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills
• Excellent administrative and organisation skills with strong attention to detail
• Confident in building new and existing relationships with external consultants, associates and partners, in strategic areas, working with internal consultants and Theme Convenors
• Experienced in working with a wide range of backgrounds and cultures
• Excellent IT skills including high level of competence with Microsoft Office
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise a varying workload
• Lead on developing BD knowledge management systems and processes for sharing learning mechanisms to enhance the interface between Itad and our external clients, partners and associates
• Confident in negotiating, with a commercial acumen
• Excellent skills in developing budgets and commercial proposals

Desirable

• An excellent understanding of the international development landscape, and preferably have experience of developing business opportunities for clients such as the FCDO, multilaterals, UN agencies and foundations.

We know there are great candidates who may not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself and why perhaps you are looking to take the next step.

About Itad

Itad is a leading international development consultancy providing advice to governments, foundations, multilateral agencies and non-profits on how to maximise the impact of their investments. We have an excellent track record of providing our clients with the information and insight they need to make development work smarter, produce better results and improve people’s lives.

Our knowledge and expertise are grouped around Practice areas including Fragile and Conflict-affected Settings (FCAS), Human Development, Inclusive Growth, and Governance and Institutional Strengthening.   We continue to grow in size, commercial performance and professional reputation and we are increasingly recognised as a global leader with a diverse client base including international development agencies and philanthropic foundations.

At Itad, we are committed to actively promoting diversity, equality and inclusion to empower people both within our organisation and through our work. We know that employees with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences make us a more effective and innovative company and we therefore welcome and encourage applications from interested candidates regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

All of Itad’s company software is compatible with Zoom Text Magnifier/Reader.

Successful candidates will already have the right to live and work in the UK.

Itad are unable to sponsor applicants for work visas in this role.