Bid Manager

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Cigna Healthcare .Cigna IOH has an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and driven Senior Bid Manager to join our Bid Delivery Office. You’ll be flexible, used to working in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects, and able to plan your time effectively to meet challenging deadlines. Reporting to the Head of Bid Delivery, you will manage the Bid process from start to end including accurate and timely completion of Cigna Information Protection redirects, questionnaires and IOH bids for a wide range of current and potential clients. Working alongside key business stakeholders, including Sales Managers, Client Managers, Executive Sponsors, Senior Bid Managers, Bid Managers and other key contributors, you will provide bid management, stakeholder management and time management to the team at all times.

Responsibilities

Creation and management of bids; ensuring that the approach is clear and all key deliverables, milestones and timelines have been identified and planned

Understanding the sales life cycle and how it fits together; from opportunity pipeline tracking to delivering best in class RFP submission

Understand the roles and responsibilities required for each bid lifecycle, including Senior Bid Manager, Subject Matter Experts (SME), Authors and Reviewers

Facilitate communication across all business stakeholders and third parties to ensure complete transparency of Bid status and delivery plans

Manage sign-off processes with key business stakeholders prior to bid submission

Work closely with key stakeholders to ensure submissions are made on time and to the required quality

Collaborate with SMEs across the business to ensure accurate completion of due diligence, supplier questionnaires, vendor forms and onboarding documentation

Support Head of Bid Delivery with pipeline management, call scheduling with SMEs and Outlook mailbox monitoring where required

Continued SharePoint site maintenance, content owner database maintenance, follow-up with SMEs and creation of ad-hoc reports where required

Opportunity to gain industry recognised APMP Foundation Accreditation

Skills and Experience

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple priorities

Ability to build and maintain strong business relationships, with the skills to negotiate and influence key stakeholders

Ability to build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Willingness to use initiative and continuously look for new and better ways of working, while considering best practice processes

Good analytical, organisational and judgment skills

Ability to work under pressure and meet challenging deadlines

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Administration skills

Ability to juggle multiple deadlines

Excellent project management skills

Excellent database management skills

Strong IT skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

About Cigna HealthcareCigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

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