Bid Manager

The successful candidate will take senior ownership of the full bid management lifecycle, from opportunity qualification and bid or no-bid decisions through to proposal planning, compliant submission, post-submission follow-up, and continuous improvement.

This is not a pure administration role. It requires someone who can influence senior stakeholders, shape win themes, coordinate multidisciplinary inputs, manage tight timelines, strengthen bid governance, and build better systems, templates, and processes for future submissions.

Profile for Success

• Demonstrated experience leading complex bid, proposal, or tender processes in a consulting, professional services, infrastructure, development, public-sector, or donor-funded environment.
• Evidence of senior bid ownership, including bid strategy, bid or no-bid decisions, proposal governance, review cycles, commercial risk input, and final submission accountability.
• Proven ability to coordinate multidisciplinary contributors, technical experts, sector leads, external partners, and senior stakeholders under tight deadlines.
• Strong writing and editing capability, including executive summaries, proposal sections, written bid content, and quality review.
• Experience working with public-sector, international, or donor-funded procurement processes. Exposure to World Bank, EU, GIZ, USAID, PFMA, PPPFA, or similar procurement environments is highly relevant.
• Strong systems discipline, including pipeline tracking, reporting, document control, content libraries, templates, MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and ideally SharePoint.
• Practical curiosity about AI-enabled bid compilation and the ability to improve bid processes using technology without compromising quality or compliance.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Commerce, Business Administration, Project Management, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• 8 to 10 years of bid management, proposal management, tendering, or closely related commercial experience, with meaningful senior or leadership accountability.