Group Bid Manager, fulltime, Clevry, Helsinki/Stockholm/Brighton

Clevry is a global full-service supplier within the Talent Management sector, specializing in Soft Skills. Recruitment is just as much about matching the right skills and experience with the right company, as it is knowing which personality traits and soft skills to look for in a candidate. We are specialists in both. With us, finding joy at work is easier than ever. With 150 experts, over 75,000 candidates assessed per month, and industry leading validity and reliability under our belt, we’re here to help our clients match and recruit their teams globally. 

We are looking for a Group Bid Manager to join our growth journey. We are offering you an interesting position in the field of recruitment services, psychometrics and assessments. If you are self-driven, ambitious and goal oriented professional with solid track record in contract and bid management, keep reading!

The position is full-time and permanent, and the start date is in August 2022 at the earliest or according to agreement. Your location can be Finland, Sweden or the UK. Clevry’s headquarters are located in Helsinki, Stockholm and Brighton. In this role you will report to Clevry’s VP of Sales.

What will you be doing?
As a Group Bid Manager you will own the concept of bidding on group level. This means developing and owning all bid and frame agreement related processes such as process for getting into tenders and how we work with them as well as the process for implementing tenders and frame agreements. Together with VP of Sales and Line organizations you develop KPIs and goals for the bid function. In addition you will be responsible for the tools and systems that we use and developing our documentation.

An important element in this role is also supporting Clevry’s salespeople in contract negotiations in all our service categories (from SaaS to consultancy) internationally. You help our sales department in reviewing contracts and negotiating contract terms as well as provide training for them.

As a Group Bid Manager, your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Owning the concept of frame agreements and bidding on group level
- Working with local Bid Managers to implement the processes and to develop the function
- Supporting Clevry’s Sales Managers in contract negotiations in all service categories internationally
- Working with Group Procurement in all purchase categories


What you will need to succeed:

- Solid experience in bid or procurement role with proven track record of success
- Fluent English speaking and writing skills, no other language skills are needed but seen as a benefit
- Ability to have strategic discussions with C-level directors and HR of large enterprises
- Self-driven, curious, ambitious and goal-oriented mindset


How to apply?
If you recognise yourself in this description, apply for the position by 10.7.2022. However, we urge you to act quickly - we will proceed with potential candidates already during the application period. For further information, please contact Ida Brandt (ida.brandt@clevry.com). Please note that we cannot receive applications via email due to data privacy legislation.

What we do?
We aim to be a change maker for a soft skills driven work-life within talent acquisition, assessments and advisory. As soft skills are the best predictor of future job performance, we need to assess, evaluate and implement them accurately. And that's something we know like the backs of our hands with the help of our Soft Skills Platform, an online software that provides us and our customer’s the possibility to use psychometric assessments as a tool for recruitment or onboarding processes.

Why us?
We have a brilliant international team and we are building something unique in the talent assessment and acquisition market - not only in Nordics but also globally. As a growing team, we foster a work environment which gives and requires responsibility and proactiveness. The role itself is therefore likely to be varied and full of opportunities for growth, experience and developing new skills.

We operate internationally and all of our employees have the chance to impact the development of our operations, as well as having the opportunity to become business partners through our partner-program.

With us you get to be part of energetic gang as well as unique working culture that culminates in our values of We Spread Joy, We Are Human & We Are Clever Rebels. In short, this means encouraging our colleagues to grow and succeed, taking responsibility for the common result and looking for new creative ways to work. Everything we do is based around finding joy at work.

Additional information about our recruitment process
At Clevry, we believe that rather than focusing solely on hard skills, the key to success is based on soft skills and the willpower to rise beyond expectations. Therefore, our recruitment process involves psychometrical assessments including a verbal and numerical reasoning test and a personality questionnaire (https://www.clevry.com/en/assessments/personality-questionnaires?hsLang=en) that evaluates soft skills and cognitive abilities essential for this role. When applying to us, you will receive a personal feedback report based on the personality assessment. The recruitment process also involves two interviews with Clevry, so we will get to know each other even better.