Bid & Tender Specialist
BMW Financial Services are looking for a Bid and Tender Specialist. This role is based at the Summit ONE Campus in Farnborough.
Join a team where your creativity and strategic thinking shape winning proposals and lasting partnerships. As a Bid & Tender Specialist, you’ll be at the heart of crafting compelling responses that showcase our solutions and strengthen customer relationships.
What awaits you?
- Maintain and nurture our tender runway for future, current, and historic opportunities, while building strong, collaborative relationships with sales leads and pre-tender engagement within the business. Your insight will help us design solutions that truly resonate with our customers.
- Drive success by qualifying opportunities to ensure we focus on the right proposals, maximising our chances to win.
- Organise kick-off meetings that bring together key stakeholders from around the business. Work hand-in-hand with relationship leads to shape strategies and solutions that meet the requirements of the opportunity and customer objectives.
- Research and design responses that reflect the customer’s brand, captivate readers, and highlight our partnership approach. You’ll help craft executive summaries that set the tone for success.
- Use APMP methodologies and internal tools to manage the creation, population, and submission of responses.
- Coach subject matter experts to share their knowledge in a way that’s clear, compelling, and customer focused.
What should you bring along?
- APMP certified (or working toward certification) would be ideal but not essential
- Exceptional written and communication skills
- Experience in bid writing and managing tender responses, proposals, and presentations
- Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite would be ideal but not essential
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (Outlook, Excel, Word)
- Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy
- Influencing and organisational skills to juggle priorities under tight deadlines
- A proactive, self-motivated approach, you thrive on taking initiative
Closing Date: Sunday 25th January 2026
At BMW Group, we are committed to offering our employees the right balance between work and personal life. We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer and for most roles, it could be possible to agree flexible hours, job share, compressed hours or part-time working hours and so please discuss your individual requirements as part of the application process so we can try to agree a suitable arrangement. [For this role, we also support a hybrid model which combines remote and office working.] #LI-Hybrid
We are proud to be a part of the Disability Confident scheme. The scheme supports employers to make the most of the talents disabled people can bring to the workplace.
At the BMW Group, we place great importance on equal treatment and equal opportunities. Our recruiting decisions are based on the personality, experience, and skills of the applicants.
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Successful candidates will be required to complete background screening checks and the offer of employment will be subject to results which we consider are satisfactory. Checks will include references, right to work, IT system Compliance Integrity Check (COIN), CV and relevant qualifications. Checks may also include criminal records, adverse financial (credit), directorships, address, internet research and/or driving licence. If you have any queries on any of these checks, please discuss with us and we will be happy to go through with you in more detail.