Senior Bid Manager BPL

About the role

Barclays is recruiting a Senior Bid Manager within its Bid Management team at Barclaycard Payments, a payments business backed by Barclays and Brookfield. The role sits in the Commercial organisation and focuses on winning complex, high-value payments opportunities by leading RFx projects from initial capture through to final submission and presentation.

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of bids end-to-end: identify customer challenges, develop value propositions and win themes, and turn them into persuasive bid strategies and responses
• Work with colleagues across Commercial, Product, Marketing, Design, Technology, Legal, Compliance and Information Security to create accurate, differentiated proposals tailored to merchants
• Promote the bid management team's ways of working, champion best practice and AI adoption, and improve bid processes and collateral
• Provide administrative, operational and analytical support to the sales team, including sales reports, customer databases and marketing collateral
• Prepare sales proposals, presentations and contracts, and manage customer information and enquiries
• Coordinate with operations, legal and compliance, and carry out market research for leads and competitive intelligence

Required profile

• Permanent contract, based in London
• Deep knowledge of the payments industry, ideally in acquiring, payment gateway or a PSP environment
• Demonstrable experience in bid management, RFx delivery or a related commercial discipline such as pre-sales, product marketing, business development or account management
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and senior stakeholders across multiple teams
• Excellent written communication and attention to detail

Desirable skills

• AI-enabled bid management and due diligence
• APMP qualification or equivalent bid role experience
• Developing bid strategies, win themes and value propositions