Commercial & Bid Manager

Job Description

Commercial & Bid Manager

Location Commutable distance to Winchester / London

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Total Package  

• Up to £68K base salary
• 10% bonus
• 6% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture
  
  

The role

• Responsible for all elements of the commercial process for aligned commercial segments including UK broadcasters, Digital Platforms, Radio and Global Media, with Total Contract Values ranging from £100K to £30m.
• Responsible for delivering high quality customer bids, RFP responses & priced offers and customer contracts.
• Liaise closely with sales, finance, product, pre-sales, technology, legal & operations to ensure proposals meet bid requirements, RFP qualification criteria and are accurate in content.
• Act as ‘critical friend’ in priced offers, ensuring commercial offers are accurate and error free.
• Ensure bids & offers are submitted in a time bound manner.
• Act as a liaison between the commercial organisation and finance to ensure all governance gateways are met.
• Experience in a Broadcast Technology, B2B Telecom, technology products or services company highly desirable.
  
  

The person

• Ability to work with numerical data & commercial models, demonstrating a high level of accuracy.
• Solid experience of bid or commercial management dealing with priced offers & bids from TCV £100k-30m.
• Comfortable with dealing with high volume of content & data, organised and demonstrable experience of delivering high quality output.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, to work across a variety of cross functional stakeholders.
• Commercially astute with the ability to assess the financial and business impact of decisions and exercise sound judgement
  
  

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.   

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us. 

Your wellbeing…. Our wellbeing mission is to help our people to be the best version of themselves at work and still have the time and energy to live a full life outside of work. 

Our focus for 2025 is to Win, Grow, Go Faster – find out more, contact us and apply!