Proposals Manager

The Vacancy

We’re excited to announce a new opportunity for a Proposals Manager to join our growing team in Cardiff, supporting our Residential business.

Our Proposals Manager will manage our proposals function including the production of high quality professional submission documents for all bids and developing customer-specific styles for each submission.

As a Proposals Manager, you will:

• Write persuasive, creative, compelling, factual and focused responses for bid opportunities including presentations and other quality related activities.
• Work with Bid & Pre-Construction Managers and wider team in development of responses that are attractive, concise and bring out the benefits of our offer
• Facilitate quality question workshops and meetings with the wider bid team to share knowledge and develop a strategy to answer quality questions
• Manage and communicate relevant market and competitor data
• Check the quality and consistency of responses in terms of themes, messages, key phrases and key words
• Ensuring we learn from feedback and continuously improve our quality responses
• Effectively liaise with key stakeholders across the business to ensure access to accurate and up-to-date company information on structure, accounts, safety stats etc.
• Produce Presentations, Brochures, Marketing Material to support pre/post bid work and business development

To drive the strategy for continual improvement in our quality submissions, utilising new methods of technology and design to compliment, ensuring we deliver ‘best in class’ proposal documentation.

We are looking for an effective and motivated individual with knowledge of bidding processes and work winning strategies.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade)
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
• One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.