Bid Director

Profile With 20 years recruitment experience working for niche, national and multi-national recruiters, this associate provides specialist bid and tender writing services for the Recruitment sector. Both Private and Public sector, temporary, permanent or volume Recruitment winning bids totalling over £1bn in contract value. From Healthcare, Professional Services, IT, Finance, Education, Administration, HR, Facilities, Social Care and multi-disciplinary bids, including: managed service, RPO, PSL, on-site and sole supplier agreements. Key Achievements C-Level management with government procurement led to first joint government and agency presentation to NHS stakeholders on the role of frameworks and procurement best practice resulting in growth of £100k. Increased overall Public Sector win rate to 65% for major PLC Recruitment firm in 6 months. Up from 40%. Has a personal win rate of over 80% with 100% success rate at Public Sector frameworks. In the last year has set up a new neutral vendor solution for a client; successfully bidding, winning and being ranked No.1 on an Education framework. Subsequently winning the first NV mini competition. Experience Ran recruitment branches across the UK and prides themself on working with clients to develop a deep understanding of their business to increase bid success. With a background of developing senior level relationships and managing bids covering multiple Recruitment sectors, this associate is an expert in Public Sector bids, especially frameworks, having won all major and smaller frameworks over the past 20 years. With an interest and expertise in Health and Social Care this associate has developed relationships with all the significant procurement organisations across the UK. This enables deeper understanding of the issues and tenders that are matched to the specification. Provides on and off site Public Sector workshops to review and develop Public Sector strategy, managed service proposition, pipeline and sales development, framework understanding, framework preparation and market and sector overview.