Bid Manager - Rivonia Verfied

Salary Negotiable Rivonia, Gauteng Rivonia, Gauteng more than 14 days ago 20-10-2014 9:35:49 AM
17-11-2014 9:35:49 AM
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Bid Manager is accountable and responsible for:

• Assessing of the bid resources required and their availability
• Reviewing and monitoring progress and resolving issues and problems
• Producing a costed Bid Plan and gaining authorization for the plan
• Initial Risk Plan summary and completed Risk Plan
• Making available the output from the Bid/No Bid review
• Producing the Bid PID and establishing the Bid Library (and other bid infrastructure)
• Managing the output of Discovery activities including assumptions and dependencies and planning for Due Diligence completion
• Ensuring use of ICT-Works Best Practices
• Pipeline Management
• Renewing Oracle Certification every year & be the Administrator
• Gartner Research and Administration

The Bid Manager is accountable for (but may delegate responsibility) for:

• Identification of the skills and capabilities for the bid and the contract fulfilment, from ICT-Works or from third parties
• Ensuring that all Project and Service Plans have been reviewed and updated
• Ensuring that transition project PID, Resource Plan, Risk Plan and Quality plans are in place
• Arranging independent Team review of the Proposal
• Managing the Bid budget
• Recording, analysing and managing issues, risks, changes and dependencies during the bid

The Bid Manager is responsible for managing the bid team in:

• Producing a Bid/Proposal Directive
• Producing the Proposal
• Confirming that the proposal is deemed acceptable from the perspectives of Commercial / Sales, estimation, Procurement, Human Resources, Risk & Planning and that it is authorized at Bid Approval
• Arranging Business Approval Review and Contract Approval Review
• Arranging Bid (and/or bid stage) initiation meetings
• Defining the structure of the proposal
• Coordinating and producing the Risk Plan
• Planning and managing the bid activities, resources and bid risks
• Identification of areas of skill and capability required for the bid and the subsequent contract fulfilment, either from ICT-Works or from Third party suppliers

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• RELEVANT UNIVERSITY DEGREE IN MARKETING OR EQUIVALENT EDUCATION OR EXPERTISE

• PROJECT MANAGEMENT QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE

• ± 5YEARS EXPERIENCE

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Multi-lingual: fluent oral and written English and Afrikaans
• Good Commercial feeling with business awareness and customer understanding
• Good overall know-how of IT Services Industry (Consulting, Application Development and Infrastructure)
• Aptitude to plan & organize
• Facility to work with others
• Knowledge of the Fujitsu organisation & contacts
• Excellent project management skills
• Structured and well organised
• Flexible
• Pro-active