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Executive / Sr. Executive, Tender & Bidding

Zencore solutions Limited
Senior 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented Tender & Bidding Professional to manage end-to-end bidding activities for Government, Semi-Government, Autonomous Body, Private Sector, and Development Partner-funded opportunities.

In this role, you will be responsible for identifying tender opportunities, coordinating technical and commercial inputs, ensuring strict regulatory and tender-specific compliance, supporting competitive pricing strategies, and tracking submissions through award and contract handover. Additionally, you will guide junior team members and continuously work to strengthen our bidding systems, controls, and reporting formats.

Key Responsibilities

1. Tender Search, Analysis & Strategy

  • Opportunity Identification: Actively search, review, and evaluate tender opportunities aligned with the company’s business objectives.
  • Tender Document Analysis: Thoroughly analyze Instructions to Tenderers (ITT), Technical Specifications, Qualification Criteria, Terms of Reference (TOR), BOQ, and contractual conditions.
  • Compliance & Planning: Prepare tender requirement analyses, compliance checklists, responsibility matrices, and submission schedules to ensure complete and timely bid preparation.

2. Document Preparation & Compliance

  • Bid Compilation: Prepare, compile, review, and finalize technical and commercial documents for both e-GP and manual submissions.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to the Public Procurement Act (PPA), Public Procurement Rules (PPR), e-GP guidelines, Development Partner policies, and tender-specific conditions.
  • Partner & Subcontractor Coordination: Manage documentation for Joint Ventures (JV), consortiums, subcontractors, manufacturers, suppliers, and foreign partners.
  • Qualifications & Audits: Verify eligibility, relevant experience, financial capacity, key personnel, equipment, manufacturer authorizations (MAF), and statutory licenses prior to submission.
  • Record Keeping: Maintain up-to-date repositories of company certificates, financial statements, experience records, and statutory documents.

3. Inter-Departmental Coordination & Financial Instruments

  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Sales, Commercial, Finance, Accounts, Supply Chain, Legal, Market, and Project teams for required technical and financial inputs.
  • Financial Instruments: Coordinate the timely issuance and management of Tender Security, Performance Security, Bank Guarantees, Bid Security extensions, and other required financial instruments.

4. Pricing, Costing & Commercial Analysis

  • Financial Proposals: Assist in preparing and reviewing tender pricing, cost estimates, price schedules, BOQs, financial offers, and discount strategies.
  • Evaluation Assessment: Assess tender mechanisms including Single-Stage/Two-Envelope (SLT), price adjustments, domestic preference, loss capitalization, and evaluated cost models.
  • Market Intelligence: Conduct post-bid, competitor, tender-result, and winning/losing analyses to guide future commercial strategy and management decisions.

5. Post-Submission & Lifecycle Tracking

  • Clarifications & Pre-Bid: Prepare and review tender queries, pre-bid correspondence, extension requests, declarations, undertakings, and official communications.
  • Award & Handover: Monitor deadlines, bid/security validities, Notification of Awards (NOA), Letters of Acceptance (LOA), and contract-signing requirements through to final project handover.
  • Reporting: Maintain structured tender databases and generate periodic status reports on bidding performance, pipeline, and competitor trends.

6. Team Leadership & Process Improvement

  • Mentorship: Guide junior team members, delegate assignments, and monitor submission progress.
  • System Enhancement: Identify compliance gaps, mitigate commercial risks, and continuously optimize bidding templates, document-control systems, and SOPs.
  • Confidentiality: Maintain absolute confidentiality regarding tender pricing, strategy, company documents, and sensitive commercial data.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a reputed university.
Experience Requirement
  • 2 to 5 years of hands-on experience in tender and bidding operations.
Key Competencies

Technical & Functional Expertise

  • In-depth knowledge of e-GP tendering, Government procurement systems, and PPA/PPR frameworks.
  • Strong proficiency in MS Office (advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and PDF editing/documentation tools.
  • Solid analytical capability in tender qualification, pricing structures, commercial evaluation, and risk assessment.
  • Hands-on experience coordinating Bank Guarantees, Bid Securities, and Joint Venture/Consortium agreements.

Soft Skills & Behavioral Competencies

  • Exceptional organizational, document preparation, and cross-team communication skills.
  • Ability to handle high-pressure environments, manage multiple active tenders simultaneously, and meet strict deadlines.
  • Meticulous attention to detail with an unwavering commitment to accuracy, integrity, and confidentiality.
  • Natural leadership ability to guide team members and drive continuous process improvements.
Benefits & Perks

• Competitive salary package • Two annual festival bonuses • Profit-sharing scheme • Long-service benefits • Global exposure and career opportunities • Contributory welfare fund • Professional development and training opportunities • Collaborative and inclusive work environment • And many more attractive benefits and facilities.