Senior Bid Manager

**Senior Bid Manager (IMPACT Team)** **What can you expect**: The core purpose of this role is to be responsible for managing the Africa Bid team, growing CE/SE Engagement, and delivering complex new business and defensive bids / reviews / RFP’s / tenders. Producing high quality reports, literature and presentations to aid sales and retention. Working to deadlines and delivering within required timescales. At Marsh, IMPACT stands for "Insurance Market Public Access and Compliance Tool." IMPACT is an online platform that provides Marsh clients with access to insurance market information and facilitates compliance with regulatory requirements. It allows clients to obtain quotes, bind coverage, and manage their insurance programs in a secure and efficient manner. **What you will be rewarded with**: - An international well-established company with a strong brand and proven results; - Opportunity to make a difference and work on projects that have a positive impact on society and the environment; - Attractive benefits coverage, outstanding learning and mentoring programs, and internal mobility opportunities; - Stable employment and a hybrid working model. **Key Responsibilities**: - Manage the IMPACT team Africa; - Responsible for Contribution and Win targets in Africa; - Define and scope projects - outputs, timescales, resources/costs and methodology; - Delegating tasks/activities across the team; - Production of quality reports and presentations within agreed timeframes; - Working to project management timelines and disciplines; - Managing broking and programme design input with Placement Leader(s); - Meeting with prospects to understand rationale for bid/review; - Responsible for developing/encouraging use of Marsh unique service propositions for successful outcomes; - Working closely with proposed client service team on deliverables; - Undertake specific tasks as directed by management adhering to agreed timescales. **Qualifications**: - Bachelor's Degree graduate; - Knowledge and understanding of relevant insurers, third-party service providers, and their products/services. Awareness of competitors' capabilities; - Excellent command of oral and written English; - Team Leadership and Management experience; - Good communication skills - ability to structure the content of communication effectively; - Well organized and efficient with a track record of successfully managing projects. - Ability to work within tight timescales and actively contribute to achieving business and team goals. - Sound working knowledge with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel; - Wide knowledge of (non-) standard and complex risks across a full range of insurance classes. **What makes you stand out**: - Proficiency in an additional language is a plus; - In-depth understanding of the client's industry sector, including the ability to identify key risks and potential implications of events in the news, using this knowledge to challenge bid/review team responses; - Proactive in probing for details, clarifying tasks, and navigating through complexity; - Motivated and enthusiastic with a desire to develop additional skills. - Commitment to delivering best practice, market-leading service, and solutions; - Very high attention to detail, setting own standards and utilizing monitoring systems; - Innovative mindset, able to think outside the box and create new models and frameworks. Marsh McLennan is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.