LEAD is looking for a bid consultant with strong writing skills and a good business understanding.
LEAD's offer area plays an important role in driving the company's continued growth and we are currently looking for a colleague with good writing skills and a strong commercial mindset to contribute to this.
You will be part of a young and ambitious tendering team with a high track record and a high degree of empowerment. You will work with tenders, competitive tenders and concept development for our customers in the public and private sector.
You will lead multidisciplinary project teams, composed according to customer needs, and be responsible for structuring and executing the bidding processes from start to finish. You will drive the offer forward from market dialogue to contract, ensuring that the services are conceptualized in a way that takes into account both quality and profitability. It is important to have an analytical mindset to solve the various complex problems and come up with conceptual solutions that match the market.
As part of LEAD's tendering area, you will have a wide range of contacts. In addition to the tendering team, your primary stakeholders in larger tenders will be area directors and subject specialists within LEAD and any external stakeholders (HR representatives, procurement consultants, etc.). You will also provide ongoing support and advice across LEAD's consultants in smaller tender processes.
Work tasks
As a bid consultant at LEAD, you will be responsible for the entire bidding process and your tasks will include
- Develop, write and communicate offer material to suit customer needs, for example in collaboration with internal subject matter experts.
- Project management throughout the bidding process, including preparing schedules, coordinating with internal subject matter experts, ensuring consistency and meeting deadlines.
- Preparation of major and minor budgets.
- Develop innovative and tailored programs that match customer needs.
- Prepare presentation material for and participate in market dialogs, presentation meetings and negotiation meetings with customers.
- Act as a sounding board for management and colleagues for ad-hoc commercial, technical and/or legal assistance in tenders.
- Development and streamlining of LEAD's offering processes and activities.
Your continuous career development is a top priority for us. That's why you'll have the opportunity to make your own mark on your professional development through participation in internal and external courses and conferences. At the same time, you'll have a high degree of empowerment so you can help shape your tasks and career development.
About you
To thrive in the role as a proposal consultant in LEAD, we imagine that you:
- Have strong communication skills (or thrive on writing larger tasks if you are a recent graduate)
- Structured, detail-oriented and able to ensure a high level of quality in your work
- Thrives on and gets excited about innovative solutions to customers' complex problems through both creative and analytical approaches
- Experience with or interest in project management and stakeholder management
- Have 1-2 years of experience with quotation processes or if you are a recent graduate, you have the drive and interest in quotation process training
- Thrives in working with both short and long deadlines where continuous adaptation to the outside world is a prerequisite
- Have a relevant master's degree in e.g. communication, business administration, psychology, law, political science or similar.
Knowledge of procurement rules is an advantage, but not a requirement. In addition, you must have the desire to play an active role in the further professionalization of LEAD's offer area.
What do we offer
You will be part of a dynamic and knowledge-rich community where you will work together with some of the country's leading consultants in leadership and organizational development. This gives you a great opportunity for professional development in the field, where you will play a central role in the development of learning concepts as well as organizational and leadership development courses within themes such as psychological work environment, diversity and inclusion, cultural development, management of digitalization, strategy development and implementation, management team development and much more. At LEAD, you will experience a high degree of flexibility where you get the opportunity to organize your workday.
The salary is competitive and includes an attractive bonus scheme. We prioritize a good working relationship with colleagues and therefore regularly hold joint days and professional development days where you meet colleagues across our offices in Aarhus and Copenhagen. In addition, we organize regular social events such as Friday bars, summer parties, Christmas lunches and participation in events such as the DHL relay.
Your workplace will be at our Copenhagen office located in Christianshavn.
Are you interested?
We look forward to receiving your motivated application and CV at eho@lead.eu (cc: tbh@lead.eu) before the application deadline of August 5, 2024.
If you are a recent graduate, please also attach your grades.
If you are curious about what the position entails or have any questions regarding the position, you are welcome to contact Tine Bækgaard, Head of Services at tbh@lead.eu or +45 61776467.
About LEAD
LEAD employs some of the country's most specialized consultants in leadership and organizational development. This means that whether we solve projects in collaboration with you, or whether you participate in our training programs, networks or take part in longer consulting and development courses, you will meet top professional quality.
We collaborate with top executives, managers and development consultants in a number of Denmark's municipalities, regions, government agencies and leading private companies. We are also an ambitious knowledge house that works with both well-known and new subject areas, and that seeks out, produces and disseminates leading knowledge. Our aim is to translate research-based knowledge and experience of what works into solutions close to practice.
At LEAD, we take people and organizations to the next level so they can make a difference for others and for the society we are all a part of. And towards 2030, we strive to become Denmark's agenda-setting consultancy and an ambitious, highly professional and diverse community.
You can read more about us at www.lead.eu.
