Where does this role fit in?
Working closely with ITG's New Business, and Marketing teams, you'll be creating thought provoking, and engaging bid and tender documents for our new business proposals. Formed 9 years' ago, ITG is already running at 600-people strong, with clients up and down the UK, Europe, and the USA. As Bid Manager, you'll be playing a pivotal role in helping this growth to continue as you create the documents to help us win that business!
Working on multi-million pound annual bids, you'll be someone who goes above and beyond to research the prospective client and fully understand their needs in relation to the services on offer from ITG. You'll be doing more than just putting all the information together as you take full ownership of shaping the proposals, conducting research and maintaining a library of assets to help bring the ITG offering to life.
This isn't going to be your typical Bid and Tender management role, ITG's full range of marketing communications services revolve around our very own technology platform, Media Centre. You'll be approaching the bids from both the technology side of things, understanding the functions of our system, as well as the services on offer across Print, Digital, eCRM, and more!
So, what can I expect in return?
On top of a competitive salary, you can expect:

25 Days' holiday + bank holidays
Pension scheme
Tons of discounts
Employee Assistance Programme

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Essential Skills
Am I the right person for the job?
Just have a look below, if this sounds like you it's definitely worth putting yourself forward.
The make-up of a successful Bid Manager will require a broad mix of skills and experience. Firstly, you'll be knowledgeable in the marketing services industry, either from a technical side: MRM, Marketing Automation, CRM, etc. Or from a service side: Print, Digital, Content marketing, etc.
We're looking for someone who demonstrates exceptional copywriting skills, creating engaging content which tells succinct stories to portray the ITG offering in full. You're a creative thinker, being able to shape any bid around our total service offering, bringing it all together in a comprehensive, but easy to understand, format. You have the ability to build relationships with senior level stakeholders within ITG, as well as be comfortable in meetings with key figures in prospective clients.
You can showcase outstanding research skills to fully understand the landscape of the prospective client, putting together content which mirrors their needs and their culture. You've got experience working on high value annual contracts within the private sector (public sector experience isn't necessary here). Further to that, you have knowledge of marketing execution / marketing technology to fully understand how ITG's Media Centre works for our clients. Ideally, you'll also have good Design skills, a competent user of Keynote, ability to also use Adobe InDesign will definitely make your application stand out.
Above all, you're not a corporate individual, our culture here at ITG is what makes us who we are, you'll be someone who can fit into that by being yourself.
What are you waiting for!?
You've got down to here which means there's a lot of things looking right, drop us your application and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!
About Company
Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) is among the most successful full-service marketing businesses in the world, employing over 600 specialists across technology, marketing, data, print and content creation. We have UK offices in Birmingham and London, an R and D; centre in Dartford, and client teams throughout Europe. We have US offices in New York and Chicago.
Our Media Centre marketing automation platform gives visibility and control of every aspect of our clients' marketing activity. It manages the marketing operations of around 60 blue-chip clients, including M and S;, Heineken, Puma, Audi, Sainsbury's, Renault and KFC.
Our technology is supported by a range of market-leading services, including our Birmingham-based digital agency, £250 million in print management, an eCRM division, which sends out four-billion personalised communications a year, a retail strategy agency, comprehensive local marketing programs, and a 22-seat, 24/7 artworking studio creating over three million assets a year.