Senior Strategic Bid Manager – Major Global Law Firm

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a strong bids specialist to join one of the world’s largest law firms, in which the advice and support of the central bids function is well regarded and highly valued. The firm aim to attract the best people and strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging and realise their full career potential. They offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and their new hybrid working model allows employees to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. The successful applicant will be joining the firm's EMEA Strategic Bids Team, a centre of excellence for bidding, providing support to the business to win and retain the firm's most important and profitable mandates and legal panel appointments. This is an exciting time to join a fast-paced, dynamic team who are seen as specialist bid advisers in an extremely competitive environment. The position will be high profile with senior stakeholder engagement and management required throughout. The role holder will guide the partnership, working and influencing strategically to provide direction across the entire bids process. Reporting to the regional Head of Bids, you will play a key role leading opportunities cohesively across the firm’s global network, from qualification through to client feedback. Tasked with developing the approach to both the technical and commercial aspects of bids, you will need to understand, critique and influence proposed approaches to meeting clients’ requirements, establish and achieve timelines, approvals and governance, and ensure content is fit-for-purpose. Gathering and collating client feedback to create a cycle of continuous improvement will be a key focus of this challenging role. The Senior Strategic Bids Manager will also have responsibility for the day-to-day management and work allocation of a team of bid professionals and will both coach the team and help them to develop their core bid management skills. To fulfil the requirements of the role, you will need to be an innovative and commercial self-starter, with outstanding project management skills and a strong ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines. The Senior Strategic Bids Manager will have proven bid management experience, working on multiple bids concurrently, preferably in a legal services firm. With strong influencing skills and the ability to liaise confidently and build relationships with people at all levels of the organisation, the ideal candidate will also be able to demonstrate past success in leading and coaching a team of bid professionals at all levels. Leighton Taylor promotes diversity, equality and fair treatment in all aspects of our work. It is our policy that as a provider of marketing and business development recruitment services, we will work to address existing inequalities, eliminate discrimination and promote equal opportunities and diversity. We translate this into all aspects of our everyday work and will aim to prevent discrimination or other unfair treatment against any of our staff or any users of our services regardless of gender, age, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origins, disability, sexual orientation or political and religious beliefs. Follow us on Twitter for the widest range of roles across the entire professional services sector – twitter.com/leightontaylorC