Manager, Bid Management (Bid Governance & Bid Review)

NCS is a leading technology services firm with presence in over 20 cities across Asia Pacific with a mission to advance communities through technology. We provide consulting and end-to-end technology services to our clients with our NEXT capabilities in digital, data, cloud and platforms, as well as core offerings in application, infrastructure, engineering and cybersecurity.

The Manager, Bid Management (Bid Governance & Bid Review) will be reporting to Senior Director, Bid Management, Finance. The 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.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and conduct bid review meetings, document action items and follow up with the proposal team on the action items.
• 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
• Provide value-added support through recommendations on win-strategies and risk mitigations
• Prepare bid review reports to the proposal and management teams
• Perform the relevant escalations to the next level approvers for bids that are at risk of submission or have delivery risks
• Record minutes during the bid review meetings.
• Capture records of reviews and provide regular management analytics on the bids submitted
• 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.
• Support multiple deals to enable approvers (Directors, Partners and Senior Partners) to make business decision
• 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.

The Ideal Candidate Should Possess

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology or a related discipline
• 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 has an added advantage
• Experience in bidding for Singapore Government project tenders and/or overseas project tenders will be highly advantageous has an added advantage
• Former experience in QA, Project Management has an added advantage
• Ability to work independently under stringent timeline with minimal supervision
• Agile, meticulous, outspoken and resourceful
• Possess good communication skills, able to engage with the different stakeholders
• Possess strong business/commercial acumen and analytical skills in risk management

If you would like to be part of the winning team that does great work, apply today!

About NCS Group

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