Bid Manager (French & English Speaker)
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About the Role
Terracotta Outsourcing is seeking an experienced Bid Manager for a 5-month contract in Dubai. The role involves coordinating competitive bids, managing tender submissions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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Responsibilities
- Lead day to day coordination of competitive bids and tender submissions
- Develop and manage bid plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables
- Coordinate with technical, commercial, finance, legal, operations, and other stakeholders throughout the bid process
- Monitor progress against deadlines and ensure timely completion of all workstreams
- Ensure compliance with client requirements, quality standards, and document version control
- Manage proposal documentation, data rooms, and submission packages
- Support commercial negotiations and preferred bidder activities where required
- Coordinate successful handover of awarded projects to operational teams
- Track project budgets, meeting actions, and overall bid administration
- Identify opportunities to improve proposal quality by incorporating best practices and lessons learned
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional qualification
- 4 8 years of Bid Management, Tender Management, or Proposal Management experience
- Experience managing public sector, infrastructure, transportation, engineering, or large scale service tenders highly preferred
- Strong project coordination skills with ability to manage multiple stakeholders
- Excellent organizational, planning, and communication skills
- High attention to detail with strong document management capabilities
- Fluent English and French mandatory (written and spoken)
- Candidates currently based in the UAE strongly preferred
- Immediate or short notice availability highly desirable
Full Job Posting
Overview
- Terracotta Outsourcing is recruiting on behalf of a leading international organization for an experienced Bid Manager to join a high profile project based in Dubai.
- This is an outsourced position on an initial 5 month contract with strong possibility of extension.
- Looking for a proactive and highly organized Bid Manager with experience managing complex public or private sector tenders.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the day to day coordination of competitive bids and tender submissions.
- Develop and manage bid plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Coordinate with technical, commercial, finance, legal, operations, and other stakeholders throughout the bid process.
- Monitor progress against deadlines and ensure timely completion of all workstreams.
- Ensure compliance with client requirements, quality standards, and document version control.
- Manage proposal documentation, data rooms, and submission packages.
- Support commercial negotiations and preferred bidder activities where required.
- Coordinate the successful handover of awarded projects to operational teams.
- Track project budgets, meeting actions, and overall bid administration.
- Identify opportunities to improve proposal quality by incorporating best practices and lessons learned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional qualification.
- Approximately 4–8 years of Bid Management, Tender Management, or Proposal Management experience.
- Experience managing public sector, infrastructure, transportation, engineering, or large scale service tenders is highly preferred.
- Strong project coordination skills with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders simultaneously.
- Excellent organizational, planning, and communication skills.
- High attention to detail with strong document management capabilities.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage competing priorities.
- Fluent English and French are mandatory (written and spoken).
- Candidates currently based in the UAE are strongly preferred.
- Immediate or short notice availability is highly desirable.
Preferred Industry Background
- Experience within one or more of the following sectors would be advantageous: Rail & Metro, Public Transport, Mobility, Infrastructure, Engineering, Facilities Management, Government or Public Sector Projects.
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