Bid Executive in Manchester

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

About the team

Our Business Services team is a collective of creative, strategic, forward-thinking business enablers. Together the People & Culture, Marketing & Communications, IT, Operations, Finance and Quality & Risk Management teams make it their mission to ensure Mazars has the right tools, technology, strategies and services in place to deliver exceptional client service and future-proof our growing business.

About the role

• In this hands on exciting role you'll be responsible for providing dedicated bids and business development support on the firm's strategic priority areas. Supporting the firm's growth strategy by helping to win new work through end-to-end project management, including the development of high-quality bid documents, and support and advice throughout the competitive tender process.
• Working with the Head of Strategic Growth, you'll analyse win rates and feedback to help analyse team performance and where the firm needs to improve our sales approach
• End-to-end project management of bids under the guidance of the Pursuit Manager or Head of Strategic Growth. Including but not limited to:
• Set up project plans and ensure key meetings and client interactions secured in diaries as early as possible.
• Provide insight by preparing pre-tender desk research including Business Intelligence (BI).
• Support the development of high-quality bid documents, liaising with all parts of the business. Support will range from co-ordinating pitch team meetings, creating first draft documents from template materials, inputting to pitches being managed by client-facing teams to manging the end-to-end development of selected pitches.
• Liaise with the Design team on document development.
• Liaise with teams to co-ordinate and collate information, where necessary, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Maintain and manage content, including a library of credentials, case studies and CVs
• You'll be the first point of contact for queries, including from Group and international teams and take responsibility for managing the team's inbox and escalating where needed.
• Supporting the Strategic Growth and Client Experience teams on ad-hoc projects

What are we looking for?

• Proven project management skills
• Experience of working within a bid role
• First class proofreading and editing and copywriting skills.
• Excellent attention to detail under pressure.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office and strong general IT skills.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward.  Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

Visit forvismazars.com/uk to learn more.