Company Overview

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients.

To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarksons.com

Division Overview

Offering exceptional port agency and logistics services, we provide turnkey solutions for clients in the marine and energy sectors.

Established ships agents with a reputation for excellence, our specialist team provide round the clock vessel agency and services to the Offshore energy and dry bulk sectors.

Discover more at www.clarksons.com/port-services

Role Summary

An opportunity for an ambitious individual working in the existing dedicated Commercial Department as part of the tendering function to create high quality, fit for purpose and winning tender submission documents, which will help the business to win work predominately within the renewable and oil and gas sectors.

We are looking for people who share our passion for the project at hand whilst also being able to work within a fun and hardworking team environment.

What you’ll be doing

• Assist in the production of high quality competitive bid documents from end to end
• Log, coordinate and respond to enquiries in a timeframe better than the customers expectations
• Work with Operations and Project functions to ensure correct offering is proposed for the enquiry
• Ensure the tender is well presented, communicating to the customer the key commercial and technical advantages for choosing CPS
• Ensure the appropriate proposed commercial rates are commanded, with tenders being checked and signed off.
• Assist in the handover from the Tender to Project/Operations Team on successful award of the contract
• Assist with making sure tenders are followed up, feedback collated and salient lessons learned implemented
• Assist in ensuring tenders are properly caveated, supplied with terms and conditions and that deviations, exceptions or amends are communicated properly at handover stage with Projects/Operations
• Help coordinate commercial and technical clarifications
• Keep the project/operations team on track with the “end” deadline so the document can be reviewed in a timely manner
• Review, clarify and where appropriate challenge responses received from internal support departments and insert qualifications into bid document.  Evaluate and clarify supplier responses where appropriate
• Coordinate clarification responses during bid evaluation process
• Ensure processes are followed
• Participate in lessons learned
• Take a role in ensuring CRM is kept up do date and on track
• Additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

What we’re looking for

We invite applications from candidates who can demonstrate:

• Drive and self-motivation, with the desire and commitment to succeed, deliver excellence and make positive change;
• Relationship building, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build rapport;
• Collaboration, able to work well with others across diverse backgrounds to share information, develop skills, and deliver results;
• Resilience with the ability to persist and adapt;
• Smart problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a curious and inquisitive mind, and an openness to new ideas;
• Professional integrity and a respect for company values.

Other requirements

• Previous experience of developing and coordinating proposals
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Experience of successfully building relationships with all levels of staff
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines as part of a team
• Strong and effective verbal and written communication
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise

Proficient IT skills with MS Office, email and CRM systems