Bid Specialist

Working at Mercell

At Mercell, we're on a mission to revolutionise public procurement, making it accessible and effortless for everyone involved. Imagine a world where public buyers and visionary suppliers come together seamlessly to make a great deal easier and shape the future. That's what we're all about.

With a dynamic culture built on continuous growth, trust, and collaboration, Mercell offers an environment where your talents can thrive. You will be part of an international environment with ambitious and dedicated colleagues who are passionate about what they do and supported to be themselves.

Together, let's shape the future and create real value for society, one innovative solution at a time.

Your mission

As a Bid Specialist, your primary responsibility is to support suppliers in optimizing their bid management strategies to enhance their chances of winning contracts. You achieve this by creating expert content and services designed to elevate their proficiency in bid management.

Your role involves crafting expert content, such as guides, templates, webinars, and best practices, specifically curated to address the unique needs and challenges faced by suppliers. Through these resources, you empower suppliers to refine their bidding processes, improve their proposals, and ultimately increase their success rates in securing contracts. Additionally, you play a crucial role in delivering this expert content to supply side business customers through various channels, ensuring they have access to valuable insights and tools to drive their business growth.

Overall, your focus is on equipping suppliers with the knowledge and resources necessary to excel in competitive bidding environments and maximize their business potential.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver expert content tailored to bid management processes and strategies
• Deliver one-to-many training sessions, workshops, or webinars to educate customers on best practices and industry trends in bid management
• Provide one-to-one consultations and coaching sessions to enhance customers' bid management skills and knowledge
• Continuously develop and refine expert content, incorporating feedback and insights from customers and industry experts

Required Qualifications

• Experience as a Bid Manager or a Procurer in the public sector
• Experience in creating and delivering training materials, instructions or other type of educational material to a group of people, either in person or digital
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluent in English
• Fluent in Norwegian

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a project manager, service delivery specialist, consultant, trainer
• Experience in creating content

Start date: As soon as possible

Duration: Full time

Working style: Hybrid remote

Location: Norway (Oslo)

Has this sparked your interest?

Then we can't wait to have you join our mission and looking forward to receiving your application.

We will continuously invite qualified candidates for job interviews and will close the job post as soon as we have found the right candidate for this role.

Application Deadline: 19 May 2024 However, do not wait to submit your application - we will read applications and talk to potential candidates as we receive them.

What we Offer

As a fast growing technology company, we are committed to taking care of our employees through initiatives such as hybrid work to support work-life balance, health and insurance plans (may differ per country/office), pension plans, paid parental leave, social happenings and competitive salary packages. Please see https://career.mercell.com/posts/our-perks-benefits to get more insights on what to expect of perks, benefits and culture when joining Mercell.

Questions for this position?

We hope you got all your questions answered and you feel confident applying for this position, however if you have more questions or doubts regarding the position, please contact the hiring manager directly.

Happy to chat with you!

Maartje Rietsema, Group Director Customer Value Delivery

Email: maartje.rietsema@mercell.com

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