Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team? 

Join our Framework Bid Team

The Frameworks bid function sits within Softcat's Bid Centre team structure and plays a critical role in enabling sales through access to key public sector frameworks. Frameworks are central to how public sector business is delivered, and the team exists to secure, retain, and continuously improve Softcat's framework portfolio. The team is responsible for delivering some of the most complex and high-value bids across the business.

Success. The Softcat Way.  

This team crafts bespoke, high-quality responses that position Softcat as a trusted technology partner for major organisations in the public sector. The team also collaborates closely with our Bid Centre, sharing best practices, aligning processes, and contributing to the continuous development of Softcat's central bid library and templates.

As a Senior Bid Manager for frameworks, you'll take end-to-end ownership of framework bids, balancing core BAU framework activity (renewals, extensions, and DPS') with strategic framework pursuits that expand and protect Softcat's addressable markets. You'll work closely with our public sector sales teams, commercial advice, technical proposition owners, legal and framework contract management teams.

As Senior Bid Manager, you'll be responsible for: 

• Own and deliver end-to-end high-quality, compelling responses for frameworks
• Answer planning, storyboarding, coordinating inputs, quality control, and ensuring submissions are tailored and compliant
• Assisting with the management of bid schedules, risks, and dependencies to meet submission deadlines
• Leadership with internal stakeholders, technical teams, and external partners to gather information and align responsibilities
• Tracking and reporting on outcomes, lessons learned, and supporting ongoing improvements in quality and consistency

We'd love you to have

• Significant experience in managing public sector bids or tenders, ideally frameworks (for example: CCS, NHS SBS, CPC) in a technology or services environment
• Strong experience in answer planning/storyboarding and leading SMEs to deliver structured, compliant responses.
• Strong project management, organisational skills, attention to detail and comfortable working at pace under time pressures
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home  
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs 

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.  

Join us  

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/ 

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.