Senior Bid Manager

at  Aon Corporation

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE THAT WILL LEAD TO SUCCESS

• Organisational skills crucial, including ability to adapt to changing time pressures/flexibility
• Ability to think creatively, in an unexpected way, not off-the shelf
• Confidence to challenge peers
• Communication skills including a very high level of written English
• Attention to detail, ability to work to timescales, results driven
• Creative and lateral problem solver
• Employee benefits experience desired but not essential

Working within a busy, focused and collaborative team your key tasks will include:

• Coordinating and facilitating all aspects of the bid process including Requests for Proposals and client presentations. Working with collaborators to understand and develop win strategies.
• Balancing multiple bids and ensuring their timely delivery.
• Sourcing information from the business, understanding and articulating value, working closely with Creative Design teams to develop visual concept and messaging for RFPs and client pitches.
• Editing content for readability, consistency, clarity and brand compliance utilising standard tools and processes.
• Ensuring the end-to-end review of the RFP response prior to submission including conducting own review, handling peer reviews and facilitating overall quality control.
• Responsibility for post-bid reviews to include reviewing content with stakeholders/SMEs to capture updates to content and updating the RFP content library.
• Following Aon policies and all relevant legislation

The role will also include acting as a partner for at least one sub-solution line which will see you developing strong relationships with key SMEs and stakeholders. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Updating content via RFP content library/Sharepoint sites, preparation/maintenance of stakeholder self-service RFP materials.
• Updating own technical knowledge of products and services.
• Ensuring the ongoing maintenance of accurate bid content to include updates via post-bid reviews, ability to identify gaps in content, maintaining statistics such as colleague headcounts, biographies, etc.
• Ensuring all bid managers are kept appraised of any changes to the products and services provided by the solution line