Accurx

Senior Bid Manager/Bid Lead

London (Shoreditch), Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

The Bid Lead acts as the strategic lead for bids from early capture to post-award handover. You will lead cross-functional teams to deliver responses to multi-million-pound tenders and manage work on frameworks.

What you will do

  • Set bid direction and win strategy
  • Lead cross-functional teams to deliver bids
  • Shape primary care opportunities 6–12 months before release
  • Lead qualification and go/no-go decisions
  • Own the plan, governance, risks and deadlines from kick-off to submission
  • Set win themes, key messages and evidence for responses
  • Lead quality reviews for submissions
  • Turn feedback, wins and losses into better content and ways of working
  • Strengthen position on frameworks used to buy primary care digital services

Required qualifications

  • APMP certification (Foundation or above) and/or equivalent proven bid expertise
  • Extensive experience leading multiple complex, high-value public sector tenders at the same time
  • Experience in capture and pursuit management
  • Excellent writer and reviewer
  • Ability to lead through influence and coordinate large cross-functional teams
  • Detail-oriented completer-finisher
  • Strong working knowledge of public procurement, including the Procurement Act 2023, the Social Value Model and frameworks
  • Understanding of clinical systems and workflows
  • Knowledge of how Accurx works with GP clinical systems such as EMIS and SystmOne

Nice to have

  • Experience bidding into NHS primary care, ICBs or CSUs
  • Understanding of general practice, PCN operations and how digital primary care is commissioned
  • Experience leading bids for SaaS or digital transformation solutions

Benefits

  • Discretionary recognition bonus
  • Equity: £30,000 in equal share options
  • Adjustable healthcare cover, pension or life insurance
  • Dog-friendly office
  • Regular hackathons
  • Dedicated time to visit GP practices and other healthcare settings
  • 28 days of holiday plus bank holidays
  • Up to 4 weeks to work from anywhere per year
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Fertility support
  • Parental loss support
  • Free healthy breakfasts, snacks, lunches, and a weekly sweet treat

About the company

Accurx is building a single, system-wide platform to solve healthcare productivity for the NHS. Their digital toolkit is used by 98% of GP practices.