What are the responsibilities and job description for the Bid Coordinator position at National Food Group?
Bid Coordinator
National Food Group is a dynamic company with a mission to "give food a home." We pride ourselves on our fun, collaborative, and progressive culture, blending work-from-home flexibility with an innovative office environment. Our workplace features a clubhouse, in-house gym, and an Innovation Center where culinary magic happens.
We’ve got a position cooking on our K12 Sales team. We’re looking for a Bid Coordinator who is detail-oriented and interested in a career in the food industry.
Your essential duties:
- You’ll be doing bid management, as you likely guessed, handling various types of government bids and large contracts.
- Work with our fantastic Purchasing and Sales teams to get pricing from vendors and suppliers.
- Drop some knowledge - propose specific products to our Sales Team Leads, based on the bid requirements you see.
- Put on your anti-reflective, blue-light-filtering computer glasses, and research bids and customers, and then organize and review the bid documents.
- Extra, extra, read all about the contracts and bids to make sure all rules and regulations are followed.
- Be a foodie, but for food knowledge – you must be willing to learn all about food and shipping industries to be more informed on bid specifications and requirements.
- Keep the whole team in line and on schedule – you’ll need to identify and record detailed work showing the entire bid process.
- Formally prepare and submit bids with all required information as requested.
- You’ll perform detailed job duties in a fast-paced sales office. Attention to detail is critical.
- You’ll learn to speak the lingo, using specific terminology with Sales, Logistics and Purchasing.
Your qualifications:
- Exceptional writing and communication skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PDF) and Outlook
- Attention to detail
- Work well in a team environment
- Extremely organized
- Love for process
- Competitive – eager to win!
- Self-motivated
- A good understanding of business revenue and gross profit
- Possess a strong sense of urgency, and know how to prioritize work
- Adaptable and flexible – enjoy doing work that requires frequent shifts in direction
- High stress tolerance – thrive in a high-pressure environment
We love when our team members are happy and healthy! At National Food Group, you'll have the following benefits and perks:
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision care insurance
- Group life & voluntary life insurance
- 401(k) savings plan
- Flexible savings plan
- Short-term & long-term disability
- PTO & PTO buy up
- Tuition reimbursement
- Wellness reimbursement
Our office work environment:
Works in a temperature-controlled office environment.
This job requires the ability to perform duties contained in the job description for this position, including, but not limited to, the above requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made to fulfill these requirements.
The above statements generally describe the principal and essential functions of the job but should not be construed as a detailed description of all essential functions that may be inherent in the job.
Equal Employment Opportunity
National Food Group is an equal opportunity employer.
- Please also list your salary requirements in your application.
