Role Purpose
The Bid Manager leads, plans and delivers high-quality proposal responses across multiple complex opportunities within the global travel software sector. Operating on a hybrid basis, the role owns the end-to-end bid lifecycle — from qualification through to submission — ensuring structured planning, robust governance, cross-functional coordination and the consistent delivery of compelling, compliant proposals.

This is a role for someone who thrives under pressure, brings sharp editorial instincts to technical content, and knows how to move diverse, globally distributed teams toward a single deadline. The Bid Manager acts as the central point of control across all assigned pursuits, setting the standard for quality, consistency and rigour across every deliverable

Location : Open across IBS Software India Offices (Trivandrum , Kochi , Bengaluru , Chennai)

Key Responsibilities
1. Pursuit Leadership & Strategy
Own and manage the complete bid lifecycle from qualification to submission, setting win themes,



solution storylines and pursuit governance across simultaneous complex bids.
Develop bid strategies and response frameworks in partnership with Sales and Product teams, ensuring all submissions are positioned around client outcomes rather than internal capabilities.
Facilitate bid/no-bid recommendations supported by clear risk, commercial and delivery considerations.

2. Portfolio Planning & Scheduling
Build and maintain detailed bid plans, multi-timezone schedules, RAID logs and compliance matrices across multiple concurrent opportunities.
Lead bid kick-offs, daily stand-ups, progress reviews and content walkthroughs, enforcing gates from kick-off through to submission.
Ensure effective version control, documentation governance and audit-ready record keeping across all active pursuits.

3. Response Development & Editorial Quality
Shape SME input from product, engineering, security, commercial, finance, legal and delivery teams into persuasive, score-ali

📌 Bid Manager (Thiruvananthapuram)
🏢 IBS Software
📍 Thiruvananthapuram