MTN Nigeria Job in Lagos for a Bid Manager

MTN Nigeria - The leader in telecommunications in Nigeria, and a part of a diverse community in Africa and the Middle East, our brand is instantly recognisable. It is through our compelling brand
that we are able to attract the right talents who we carefully nurture by continuously improving our employment offerings even beyond reward and recognition.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Title: Bid Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Support Commercial and Technical project evaluation
• Develop Business case/Business models
• Communicate Business plans and analysis
• Support tender/bid response for Corporate and Major accounts (CMA) projects
• Use standard templates to produce bid documents, coordinate inputs from the account teams, Pre-sales  Engineers and commercial/legal/finance teams
• Review and provide thorough analysis on complex bid documents  and coordinate inputs from the buyers (customers),  account teams, Pre-sales  Engineers and commercial/legal/finance teams
• Obtain concurrence from relevant groups in MTN regarding the content of bids (including contract management, legal, financial, systems engineering, networks, IT, and product groups).
• Undertake final quality checks on bid documents before they are submitted to customers, ensuring full bid compliance with the terms of customer RFP or RFT.
• Define clients’ requirements (technical, commercial and governance requirements)
• Assist the sales team in defining corporate clients technical needs with Technical/Engineering teams (ES Pre-sales, ES Solutions Development, IS, NWG)
• Ensure timely delivery of compliant and commercially sound bids and track progress and communicate with all teams
• Manage the release and approval of vital bid/tender documents such as bid bonds/security/bank guarantee, power of attorney, bid forms, bid quality assurance form and all other required bid documents
• Provide bid management support for all proposals to nominated Enterprise Solutions strategic, corporate and SME customers
• Provide business analysis, documentation and support for all ES bid requirements
• Manage the bid qualification process for new opportunities (Bids, RFP, RFQ, ITT, Expression of Interest –EoI)
• Forward details of bid documents to the ES stakeholders (Account Manager, Pre-sales, Solutions Development) when bids are successful.
• Archive all bid materials
• Full integration of quality management processes within the Systems Engineering (Pre-sales & Solutions Development) and their effective deployment on a day-to-day basis.
• Understand and resolve complex technical, strategic and business issues
• Prepare, submit and present proposals, business plans, reports and other required documentation
• Collate commercial requirements for major bids/tenders
• Collate departmental requirements to support Business Solutions division’s budget process
• Support corporate customer –facing activities
• Provide professional inputs and advice to the ES account teams on the production and presentation of bid documentation.
• Provide regular performance reports on bid performance work for the Pre-sales Manager and account teams.
• Make recommendations for improvements to bid processes based on analysis of performance.
• Provide technical and system solution support to the business solution’s sales team

• General MTNN working conditions
• Extra working hours may be required

• A first degree in Engineering, Information Management,  Finance, Accounting or any social science course
• Previous/current experience working in a bid team
• Excellent communicator (effective presentation and writing skills)
• Proven bid team involvement
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project)
• At least 8 years working experience including:
• At least 4  years Financial and Technical sales experience preferably in the Telecoms/ICT environment
• Knowledge of ICT, telecoms systems, technologies and terminologies
• Project Management certification or training

• BA, BEd, HND, BSc or BTech