Bid Coordinator

We have an exciting opportunity for a Bid Coordinators in our Leeds office to join a growing team of win professionals who work closely with technical colleagues across the business to secure new projects and drive growth.

Although based in a local office, the individual will work as part of a wider bidding team that supports opportunities across the geographic region, they will also be an integral part of a likeminded community of bid managers, coordinators and writers who are sharing best practice and driving improvement across the UK.

As a proactive and highly organised Bid Coordinator you will support the smooth running of pursuit and submission activities at every stage of the win lifecycle. You will be responsible for implementing a managed approach to help teams produce accurate, compliant and well-presented bids – from the monitoring of inboxes / portals, through the coordination day-to-day bidding activities across our teams, to the production of high-quality professional submissions.

Ridge is a growing built environment consultancy that helps clients create better, more sustainable places for people to live, learn, work and play. We are committed to delivering outstanding service and providing our people with the support, opportunities and environment they need to thrive.

What You'll Do:

As a Bid Coordinator, you will support the bid process and play a key role in helping Ridge win new business opportunities. You will:

Monitor activity across submissions inboxes, procurement portals and internal trackers so that opportunities are identified, logged and promptly issued to the right people

Set up, structure and manage a controlled working environment for each bid (eg Microsoft Teams sites) to enable collaboration across multi-disciplinary / multi-partner teams

Embed the bid programme to see that bid team members respond in line with bid plan, that all deadlines are met, that all bids are compliant and that appropriate governance is in place

Schedule and actively appropriate meetings to communicate our approach – from kick off, to workshops, through regular stand-ups to check progress, to reviews and approvals

Undertake research, review previous relevant bids / best practice answers and gather inputs from multiple stakeholders to inform and contribute to our submissions

Take ownership for the completion of standar...