Bid Officer Company Name Gilbarco Veeder-Root at Gilbarco Veeder Root

It is expected that the Bid Officer will need to travel for the purpose of submitting and fetching tender documents, as well as attending tender briefings. This is not expected to be more than 20% of the tender administrator’s worktime.

PURPOSE OF POSITION

• The Bid officer is responsible for the entire tender process implemented at Gilbarco AFS and will be providing support to customer facing business units throughout the tendering process.

Key Responsibilities

As Bid Officer, you will coordinate and write winning proposals for tenders issued by the prospective and existing clients under the lead of our Bid Officer You will also support the business with your communications expertise, designing and developing communication strategies.

• Registering bids
• Arrange and host a bid / no bid meetings
• Coordinating and project managing the end-to-end bid process for strategic pursuits
• Preparation of detailed bid plans and management of bid activities against the bid plan
• Proactive risk and issue management in collaboration with all stakeholders on bid response delivery
• Producing detailed, cohesive, well-structured responses to the questions posed in tender documentation
• Driving and championing bid quality
• Manages provision and creation of winning response material
• Work with the relevant stakeholders to scope the required effort and define timelines for top opportunities
• Track and communicate bid status, plans, issues, timelines, action items, risks and issues
• Responsible for the quality of a bid
• Exercise scope management / control
• Develop contingency plans
• Arrange and host a Submission Approval Review
• Bid handover to delivery
• opportunities for process improvements (assess, recommend, and implement recommendations)
• Stay ahead of accreditation and standards such as BEE, ext.
• Review of information about demands and derivation of supply and proposal preparations