National Tenders Manager
- Fixed Term - Full time
- BSS
- Coventry, West Midlands
hrs/pw
Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Coventry
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We, at BSS part of the Travis Perkins Group, and we have a brilliant opportunity for a National
Tenders Manager to Manage and lead the National Tenders team ensuring they are meeting and
exceeding the agreed SLA’s. This is an essential part of the BSS tenders and bids, vital in helping us
to win business and ensuring our continued success. You’ll also manage the delivery of our Work
Winning strategy for both colleagues and customers at a local level through amazing project sales
management.
Working hours - Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
What’s in it for you?
● A competitive salary, company car and annual bonus
● 22 days holiday plus bank holidays
● Save-as-you-earn scheme / Buy-as-you-earn scheme / Contributory pension scheme
● Great colleague discounts across a variety of our Group businesses including; 20% off at
Toolstation, we also have a number of online discounts at leading retailers from theme parks
● to eating out and cinemas.
In this exciting role you will create and build one National Tenders Team by managing, leading and
developing the team to ensure that they have the right training and support where required. By
working with Directors, National and Regional Key accounts, you will be ensuring we offer World
Class service.
With your natural organisation skills and love of working collaboratively, you will enjoy taking
responsibility and will be confident in taking on a variety of everyday challenges, while maintaining
great customer and colleague relationships.
What will I be doing?
● Developing succession and training plans for each colleague to ensure development and
progression opportunities are available.
● Managing the team to ensure that performance metrics are met
● Managing the workflow of plant and valve package tenders that are received into the
office and allocation to the tender negotiators to maximise the service offering to the
customer to meet customer expectations
● Working with the tenders negotiators to ensure that we are maximising the opportunities to
quote products for tenders received. Covering both BSS and TF Solutions opportunities.
● Working closely with the clusters of BSS & TFS to promote the offering of the team through
BM & AM meetings
● To ensure that the team are offering a consistent approach and service to both internal and
external customers
● Holding regular meetings with key suppliers on areas such as price support, new products,
tender management, training.
● Work with the regions to ensure that the correct pricing parameters are used for
competitive tendering pricing.
● To make sure that QMS is being followed up and updated by the team until contracts are
awarded and that there is a smooth handover to the branches / Account Managers
● To review opportunities for Technology to record / track / review projects
● Create and monitor KPIs for sharing with key business stakeholders
What experience do you need?
Previous experience within sales would be advantageous, but not essential. We just need
transferable skills such as, the ability to lead a team through change, research and analytical
problem-solving, along with teamwork and product offering. Previous experience regarding tenders
and bid writing would be beneficial for this position.
About us
BSS Industrial - we are a leading distributor of heating, pipeline, process and mechanical services
equipment to the Building Services and Industrial sectors. Established over 110 years ago, we
became a part of the Travis Perkins Group in 2010 and now have more than 60 BSS branches, along
with a National Distribution Centre at Lutterworth in the East Midlands and a National Tube
Distribution Centre in Coventry. We have a wealth of experience in our people - technical support,
customer care, product engineering and design along with our market leading own brand - BOSS.
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