Bid Manager

**About Us**

Workwear Group (WWG) is part of Wesfarmers Industrial & Safety a division of Wesfarmers, **a top 20 ASX listed company with over 100,000 employees.** Housed under the banner of Workwear Group, our three iconic brands - **KingGee**, **Hard Yakka** and **NNT** - have been in the business of delivering workwear since the late 1920's.

We are the trusted partner in workwear solutions, manufacturing over seven million units each year. What sets us apart is our continuous investment in innovation, market knowledge, pioneering ideas and sustainability practices.

We work as one team. We put our customers first and are passionate about what we do. Joining WWG is an opportunity to thrive in an inspiring, safe, and inclusive community.

**About the Role**

You will be responsible for preparing and managing the end-to-end Tender Bid Process, ensuring accountability for overseeing written content, design offers, pricing, legal aspects, marketing, compliance, and submission of Tenders for Workwear Group Uniforms.

You will work closely with the Head of Sales, Sales Managers, Merchandise, Commercial, Sourcing and Supply Chain teams, as well as Business Development and Bidwrite (external supplier). Your role includes overseeing and assisting in the preparation of tenders, ensuring that compelling tenders, design offers, and required testing/compliance submissions (including Appendices) are developed, reviewed, signed off, and submitted in a timely manner.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Preparing initial information for bid/no bid decisions to be made
- Managing the tender timeline along with publishing all key deliverables to agreed timeframes
- Overseeing the preparation of high-quality tender content and process for all allocated tenders
- Inclusion and communication with all key stakeholders
- Overseeing timelines and delivery of Compliance to Policy and Standards (Certificates required)
- Bid Project and Timeline management
- Supporting & collaborating with Sales Managers’ and wider bid team, with management of tender content library, and reporting requirements
- Facilitate tender responses including supplying standard business content and collating final responses, pricing and Appendices.
- Meeting all required deadlines
- Assisting and managing all follow up information as requested during the bid process

**Who we’re looking for**

At our company, we value not only our great brands but also the people and teams that drive our success. In addition to technical skills, we seek team members who possess the following personable qualities:

- Strong work ethic and are committed to showing up for a team
- Openness to receive coaching and embrace self reflection and self growth
- Accountability for your actions, and emotions, and actively venture beyond your comfort zone
- Embrace innovation, take calculated risks, and inspire others to think outside the box
- Ability to build meaningful relationships, we prioritise our customers. Balancing commercial goals with customer satisfaction is key
- Ethical standards and demonstrating honesty and integrity in all interactions is fundamental to our team culture.

**What we’re looking for**

You will be highly commercial and possess strong communication skills to influence stakeholders at all levels. Along with your business acumen, you will have:

- Minimum of 5 years’ experience ideally with B2B, Business Development or Customer Relationship Management experience.
- Project Management Skills, with an eye for detail and ability to manage multiple tasks to agreed timings and budgets.
- Strong computer skills (Microsoft, Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Project) with advanced Word skill
- Writing and communication skills
- Time management skills and ability to manage multiple tasks and multiple stakeholders
- Building and maintaining strong internal and external relationships
- Ability to work in ambiguous environments
- Strong attention to detail

**What we offer**
- The chance to join a great team of like-minded, hard-working people who are passionate about achieving our vision and the growth objectives of the company.
- Flexible working environment, allowing for work from home day/s each week.
- A competitive salary package and suite of benefits and perks, including a 50% discount on our brands Hard Yakka, KingGee and NNT and 5% Wesfarmers discount for Kmart, Bunnings, Officeworks and more.
- A tailored career and development plan, plus reward and recognition programs. Whatever your goals we’re here to support you on that journey.
- Our Wellbeing program, Thrive, with activities designed to support the Financial Wellness of our team, Celebrate Diversity, ensure we Get Physical and maintain Healthy Minds, including challenges, yoga, meditation and access to our Employee Assistance Program.
- We Learn, a dedicated hub for all things learning and development.

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