Manager, Bid Management (Bid Governance & Bid Review)

NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 13,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.

As a Manager, Bid Management (Bid Governance & Bid Review), you will be reporting to Senior Director, Bid Management, Finance. Your primary role is to facilitate the governance process through conducting reviews; risk assessments; financial practices; independent feedback to support approvers; decision making and meaningful analysis of pursuit trends/win/loss to facilitate business strategies.

What will you do?

Bid Review and Documentation

• Facilitate and conduct bid review meetings, document action items and follow up with the proposal team on the action items.
• Record minutes during the bid review meetings.
• Prepare bid review reports to the proposal and management teams.
• Capture records of reviews and provide regular management analytics on the bids submitted.

Risk Assessment and Compliance

• Review the bid/tender by focusing on the sales governance, ensuring that certain standards are met and complied.
• Assess the risk level of deals and provide necessary inputs to the bid teams and approvers to support decision making.
• Perform the relevant escalations to the next level approvers for bids that are at risk of submission or have delivery risks.

Strategic Advisory and Support

• Provide value-added support through recommendations on win-strategies and risk mitigations.
• Support multiple deals to enable approvers (Directors, Partners, and Senior Partners) to make business decisions.

Team Collaboration and Development

• Provide coaching to the bid teams on the bid development/risk/compliance aspects.
• Engage and work hand-in-hand with the proposal team that includes the sales team, solution architect, etc.
• Participates in department/division/group/corporate initiatives to drive, develop and sustain the department’s objectives (bid management centre of excellence) and organization’s objectives.

The ideal candidate should possess:

• At least 3 years of experience in project delivery and or Presales Solutioning of Application/ Infrastructure Services
• Experience in handling IT project tenders as part of Proposal/Presales/Sales team (added advantage)
• Experience in bidding for Singapore Government project tenders and/or overseas project tenders (added advantage)
• Former experience in QA and Project Management (added advantage)
• Ability to work independently under stringent timeline with minimal supervision
• Ability to be agile, meticulous, outspoken and resourceful
• Good communication skills, able to engage with the different stakeholders
• Strong business/commercial acumen and analytical skills in risk management
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology or a related discipline

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.

Together, we make the extraordinary happen.

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.