Bid Management and Bodybuilder Support Executive

Tasks

The Mercedes-Benz brand is a synonym for top-class product and service quality, cost-effectiveness, reliability, and sustainability, as summed up by the slogan “Trucks you can trust.” Repeatedly, the pioneering spirit has generated ground-breaking innovations, from autonomous driving to active and passive safety systems.

As part of our great team here in Daimler Trucks, we have an exciting opportunity for a Bid Management and Bodybuilder Support Executive. Based at our brand-new offices at Willen Lake, Milton Keynes, you will strategically lead and manage the tender identification and compilation process, ensuring dealer support. This role involves overseeing external Body Builder relationships, ensuring reliable systems flow, and driving organisational growth through effective program management and compliance initiatives.

This role requires the tendering process supporting the dealer network and internal colleagues to secure vehicle sales via official tendering platforms including the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) framework. You will ensure Dealers and Internal Sales Teams are continuously informed of open opportunities, provide comprehensive support for tender submissions, including the preparation and provision of necessary information, and lead the Due Diligence process, conducting comprehensive financial and risk-based assessments to safeguard the business. Develop and implement strategies to mitigate identified risks, ensuring robust protection for the organisation.

Create and present face-to-face training programs for the dealer network on the identification and submission of tenders, empower dealers with the expertise needed to open new sales opportunities, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and learning.

Coordinate and conduct onsite audit validation meetings with Bodybuilders to ensure compliance with One-Invoice Business requirements, upload audit reports, and maintain the Bodybuilder portal reporting requirements, ensuring transparency and accuracy.

Also, you will be responsible for the UK market European Body Builder (EBB) Programme, ensuring seamless communication and documentation flow among all parties, manage the end-to-end process of EBB and OIB (One Invoice Business) Bodybuilder contract creation and reviews, ensuring compliance throughout the contract term.

Qualifications

About you

• Experience in the Commercial Vehicle Sector to ideally include Order Process Management
• Able to communicate with all levels of Management
• Good understanding of Quality Management processes
• Good numeracy, literacy, and communication skills
• Focus, enthusiasm, and attention to detail are essential
• Computer literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• The ability to present information in a logical, coherent and commercial manner is essential

What we'll give you

As well as the opportunity to work for a great business who are passionate in everything that we do, we'll offer you a competitive salary and discretionary bonus structure. We also hope you'll love our products as much as we do, with access to our colleague’s car schemes. On top of that, you'll be able to join our pension scheme and you'll get a flexible benefit pot that can be used to find the benefits that are right for you.

We're here to support you - we offer access to colleague wellbeing resources, including an Employee Assistance Programme and Mental health First Aiders. What's more, we'll also encourage your development, with the training and knowledge you need to reach your potential.

What’s next?

Once you click apply, we’ll take you through to the Daimler Truck careers portal. Here, you’ll need to complete a short 10-minute application form, attach your current CV and submit your salary expectations. Simple.

Closing Date: 20 November 2024

Don't forget to follow us on LinkedIn @ Daimler Trucks UK Ltd.

Managing your data

We care about your personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with more control and by submitting an application to us, we consider this to be an agreement to process your personal data in support of our recruitment and selection process. Data categories that we process in relation to your application are the ones that you provided as part of the application process. We process your personal data in relation to the application, in accordance with the legal requirements. Recipients of your personal data within our company are the managers of the specialist unit in charge of filling the position and the responsible colleagues from HR.

Your application data is held within our secure application tracking system called Taleo – you will be given access to a candidate zone in this system where you can monitor and manage your application and see status updates. We will communicate with you, by email or phone throughout the recruitment process so that we can keep you updated and inform you of your progress through the recruitment process. You can also seek ‘job alerts’ once you are registered in Taleo and it’s possible your details may be returned in searches we conduct for new positions, and we may contact you by email to let you know about them. We limit the storage of your data to the necessary period. Contact us as DTHR@daimlertruck.com for further information. If you have any questions about any matter relating to data protection or the personal data that we process about you for the purpose of personnel recruiting, please contact the Chief Officer of Corporate Data Protection for the Daimler Group at the following address: Daimler AG, HPC E600, 70546 Stuttgart, data.protection@daimler.com. #LI-AA

Arbeitsort