Ashling Comerford Email & Phone Number

Remote Working Various Locations

Various Locations

With over 15 years’ experience as a bid director with an exemplary record in winning bids. I am an experienced leader of complex and large-scale bid responses across public sector and medium to large enterprises. I have a proven track record of managing multi-disciplinary teams for technically demanding and operationally diverse bids. I am particularly adept at working with sales to define the winning strategy for complex bids through a mix of storyboarding, coaching and hands-on… Show more With over 15 years’ experience as a bid director with an exemplary record in winning bids. I am an experienced leader of complex and large-scale bid responses across public sector and medium to large enterprises. I have a proven track record of managing multi-disciplinary teams for technically demanding and operationally diverse bids. I am particularly adept at working with sales to define the winning strategy for complex bids through a mix of storyboarding, coaching and hands-on proposal development, ensuring the submission is consistent and relevant designed to maximum bid scores. I have led and won bids with values ranging from €100k to €350M. I have extensive experience in bid management / bid consulting; successfully managing bids with high contract values, complex teaming and sub-contract arrangements. As an example of full lifecycle ownership of a project I was the bid executive for BT on successful tender to build and run the new emergency call service (999-112) for the Irish state. I was part of the team that devised the initial “strawman” design and bid strategy. I remained on the project through tender submission, contract negotiation/award. I then went on to build the new service and then take it live and run the centres for the first six months. My main objective was to ensure continuity of design and methodologies ensuring a very complex agreement was executed on time and to budget. Show less

Various Locations

Senior member of the Implementation team from Bid, Contract to Go Live for the new Irish Emergency Call Answering ServiceFull Day to Day Management of the Centres and team of over 100

Dublin

Responsibility for the most complex and highest value bids; from qualification through the bid process response phase and into the contract negotiation phase and the associated resources, and act as the single point of contact. The management of a complex bid is more than just the management of the process but the management of the teams, personalities, and business demands of all the people working on the bid – which can be up to 100 people.