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In addition to Manned – Guarding, Tracking Solutions and Cash Logistics Services, Security Group (K) Ltd provide Electronic Security Systems and Fire Safety Services with branch network covering the entire country.

Due to the ongoing market expansion program, Security Group (K) Ltd is urgently looking for enthusiastic and can-do attitude individual to fill in the following positions.

Bids Services Executive – (1 Position)

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Security Group (K) Ltd for an experienced Bids Services Executive.

Reporting to the General Manager-Corporate Business Development, the successful candidate will support the business in managing and developing response to client invitations to tender for manned-guarding, security systems and fire services.

The focus of the role is to manage the response process and engage with all parts of the business to ensure a professional, compliant and compelling proposal is submitted.

The role involves project managing the response and bid writing.

The role involves understanding customer’s requirements; engaging with technical and operational resource to design the correct solution; engaging with the pricing lead to ensure pricing to win; and ensuring the bid is properly resourced.

The Bids Services Executive is expected to manage bids of moderate complexity and to provide support to larger more complex bids where appropriate.

Duties and Responsibility:

• Provide bid management for moderately complex bids e.g. those involving single service streams, one or two business units;
• Work toward attaining targets.
• Project manage the bid response from Expression of Interest through to submission, clarification stages.
• Marshall the resources of the organization to ensure a compliant and compelling response is submitted.
• Coordinating the production of the legal and pricing response.
• Writing quality and compliant responses to tender specifications
• Managing and contributing to the development of the winning strategy
• Liaising with the tender committees in securing contracts.
• Ensure SGA response adheres to highest bid and governance process and standards.
• Capturing lessons learned (positive and negative), feeding these to the General Manager-Corporate Business Development and implementing resulting changes.
• Undertaking tasks as directed by the General Manager-Corporate Business Development as required.
• Produce bid cost budgets and manage bid costs with approved limits.

Qualities of the Bids Services Executive:

• Sales & marketing, security background or related field.
• Bid management experience and demonstrable win rate
• Good Project management skills
• Competent writing skills and experience of Bid writing to a good and consistent standard
• Competent negotiation skills
• Strong inter-personal and planning skills
• Ability to handle multiple bids at one time
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Strong work ethic
• A positive contributor to team work
• Flexible approach to getting tasks done
• Good IT skills – must have experience of word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe

In addition to the above qualifications, the ideal candidate should have the ability to establish and maintain excellent, mutually beneficial working relationships with customers to ensure continued commercial benefit for Security Group (K) Ltd , as well as demonstrate an up-to-date knowledge of the company’s market place and competition.

Submit your application by email to: info@securitygroupke.com

or by hand delivery at our offices on Mombasa road Opposite Crater Automobile Offices addressed to the HR Manager and marked.

Applications closing date is 9am 31st January 2014.