Bid Manager

The role

In an increasingly competitive landscape, securing lucrative bids is paramount. This role will spearhead our efforts to draft compelling proposals and tenders and win lucrative contracts.

The role's key responsibilities are identifying new business opportunities, creating and delivering the highest quality bids, tenders, proposals, and pitches, and managing firm-wide bids across various practice areas, ranging from the private and public sectors to large-scale corporate/banking panels. The Bid Manager will work directly with the tender team and/or Heads of Department whenever needed to coordinate technical content and identify win themes and unique selling points. 

You will lead pitch meeting coaching to provide advice, coaching, and best practice training across all levels of legal team. You will drive a truly client-centric approach to the firm's end-to-end pitching process that is viewed as “best in the market” and lead pitch debrief reviews (whether we win or lose). You will track and report on panel pitch opportunities and pipelines, outcomes/win rates and client feedback. 

You will be responsible for our annual legal directory submissions, maintaining and/or improving rankings, collating client quotes and working with the wider BD team to include relevant compelling quotes in future promotional material.

You will ensure regular and transparent reporting, including monthly management reports, and maintain relationships with Subject Matter Experts across the firm. 

So, who are we looking for? We seek a candidate with expertise in bid management, exceptional communications skills and attention to detail. The successful candidate will be a strong leader, be able to challenge partners where tenders fall outside of the current strategy and have experience in implementing and maintaining robust processes and best practices. They will be instrumental in security key opportunities, client-focused, and able to innovate where possible. They will have a proven track record of leading successful teams and, ideally, have worked within professional services. 

Our Team

Our highly respected Marketing and Business Development Team plays an integral role in the future growth of our successful business. Our team gets involved in a wide range of business development and marketing activities and we are responsible for helping to position and develop the Muckle brand strategically.  We are a key part of the wider Muckle LLP team, which is over 175 people strong. 

We are all based at a single site office in central Newcastle upon Tyne – a city we have operated from for over 100 years.  We also have a Cumbria Hub, which our team can use as a base when working in the North West.

Our agile working policy has been in place long before COVID-19 lockdown, allowing our people to work 2 or 3 days per week from anywhere, depending upon business needs, providing excellent services to various organisations throughout the UK and beyond.

Our people and values

Our business is full of bright, enthusiastic, articulate, colourful, and confident people. People who live and breathe our core values:

• Trust – we trust each other to do the right thing.
• Teamwork – we are one team and work selflessly for each other.
• Responsibility – we are self-starters and take responsibility for how we work together and communicate.
• Care – we care about our people, clients and community. 

It means no matter who is involved, our clients receive the same excellent service from people who do what they say, on time and on budget, every time. That’s the Muckle way.

Our culture

We want everyone to understand how our business is run and encourage all our people to get involved.  We are also proud of the communities in which we live and work and give our people many ways to support them. 

For example, you could use your two days’ paid volunteering leave to support a local cause you care about or nominate them for a grant from our Muckle Fund at the Community Foundation.

From workplace running, netball, cycling and walking clubs to fun events organised by our BEAM (Being Engaged At Muckle) team and participation in our Green Team to help make the business as environmentally friendly as possible, we’ve created a unique and award-winning place to work: 

• B Corp Certified™ - the first law firm in the North East and Cumbria to achieve this accreditation, we are leading the charge in ethical and sustainable business practices within our region and it forms the next part of our ESG strategy and continuous improvement
• Investors In People Platinum award accreditation
• North East Business Awards - Best Place to Work 2023
• North East Business Awards - Business of the Year 2023
• North East Better Health at Work Maintaining Excellence award
• Advanced Good Work Pledge
• Two-time winner for Most inspiring Employer (large business) at the Inspiring Females Awards ran by the North East of England Chamber of Commerce 2023 & 2022

We are really proud of the results of our recent Investors In People survey, in which 99.2% of our people believe Muckle is a great place to work and 100% share the firm’s values.  Our overall results place Muckle LLP in 147th position for ALL Investors in People organisations (of which there are over 10,000 throughout the world) and 2nd for legal firms globally.

At Muckle LLP, we encourage innovative and creative thinking, demand high standards and value ideas from our people.  If you are an experienced Bid Business manager with the motivation and talent to join our busy Business Development Team, we would love to hear from you.

To apply, please email your CV together with an introductory letter outlining your salary expectations to [email protected].