Bid Manager

Palladium
United States, D.C., Washington
May 28, 2025
Bid Manager About Palladium Palladium is a global leader in the design, development, and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social, climate and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to help solve the world's most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 2,000 employees operating in 75-plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies, the environment, and, most importantly, people's lives. The role The Bid Manager is a key role within the APAC Growth team and is responsible for the successful submission of bids and ensuring compliance with the Business Development process that supports the sourcing, bidding and winning of new contracts and projects. You will work closely with our Geographical Leads on bids and manage different bid teams across the business. Key responsibilities include: Using the APAC BD Process Manual to ensure bid team compliance with Palladium BD processes. Providing leadership to keep bids on track, ensure robust strategy and ensure the right team is engaged to ensure we can win. Coordinating and leading bid team meetings and bid development scheduling. Working with Geographical Leads to translate capture planning into bid development and ensuring the bid is delivered on time, on budget and to high quality. Working with the bid team to finalise bid commercials and pricing strategies. Working with the bid team to draft all partner and consultant agreements. Providing and coordinating written contributions into the bid drafts. Managing the review processes and ensuring that the reviewers feedback is adequately collated and responded to. Providing input into the ongoing improvement of BD processes and collaboration across the business with the centralised BD function. Adopting and being a role model to the bid team on BD processes and fostering a culture of continuous improvement in BD quality. About you You will have previously worked in a Bid Manager role within a consulting or project management environment. Ideally, you will have DFAT bid writing experience, or experience in bid writing from other donor organisations such as FCDO or USAID. Additional key requirements include: Project management / process management background. People management and coaching experience; able to create bid teams, manage the team, ensuring deadlines are met. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. A proven ability to develop collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status. Should you require any adjustments or accommodations to be made due to a disability or you are a neurodivergent individual or for any other circumstance, please email our team at accessibility@thepalladiumgroup.com and we will be in touch to discuss. Safeguarding - We define Safeguarding as "the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm". We are committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.