Mike Raynor Email & Phone Number

Wilmslow, GB

UK

Supports clients with competitive bid strategies, bid management and bid writing. Equally comfortable leading, managing or writing bids. Since 2016, has delivered annual bidding training seminars at London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Assisted clients to bid for various contracts - examples below, further details available on request:Rail &.

Published 'Guidebook for Young Carers' in 2016, providing advice for young carers and adults who support young carers. I believe this is the first autobiographical account of being a young carer. Launched www.guidebookforyoungcarers.info in 2016, providing key advice on main webpages and all book content as free blogs, so children can freely access the.

Liverpool

Volunteered with REACT, a charity which deploys ex-military volunteers, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Trained and deployed as a mortuary porter in the Royal University Hospital Liverpool during the height of the first lockdown. Performed all mortuary duties, working alongside NHS staff and other military veterans.

UK

• Delivered bid consultancy to a variety of clients submitting tenders for public and private sector contracts. Activities included: leading bid and proposal management, performing bid writing, assisting with pricing.
• Led numerous tenders for North West companies bidding for public sector contracts.
• Delivered a Bidding for Construction Contracts seminar to an international audience at a trade conference in Latvia.
• Completed a proposal management project with General Dynamics, which involved concurrently proposal managing a response to an MOD tender and two overseas military tenders.
• Wrote a successful grant application for a charity that provides training to disadvantaged youths.

UK

• Senior consultant with a Manchester based management consultancy. Spent majority of time seconded to the Carillion Education Bid Team, though also completed an SME coaching project with the North West Development.
• Provided bid support to Carillion on three Building Schools for the Future bids, regarding contracts worth between £400m and £1.4bn.
• Liaised with various subject matter experts, and then wrote and coordinated the Business Plan (a single document worth 40% of the marks) for each of the bids.
• Participated in competitive dialogue during the final stages of a £1.4bn bid, involving liaison with buyer personnel, corporate lawyers and client directors.

UK, US, Netherlands, Germany, France

• Led an international security team responsible for all the information, physical and personnel security for a company in the nuclear fuel industry. Oversaw risk management and security arrangements for over 1500 staff.
• Extension of a classified Wide Area Network across several European counties.
• Movement plans for transportation of classified items across several countries.
• Establishment of a classified IT connection between Europe and the USA.

Saudi Arabia / UK

Completed a security consultancy project with a US oil company based in Saudi Arabia. Assessed and improved risk assessments and security procedures, liaised with local military and police, delivered security awareness training and performed duty officer activities. Performed security consultancy for an international NGO which deployed personnel to.

Sudan, South Sudan, Georgia

Ceasefire Monitor and Team Leader on international peacekeeping missions in Sudan, the Georgian border with Chechnya and South Sudan. Led multinational, multicultural teams of approximately 30 staff under extremely challenging conditions. Managed relationships between hostile armed groups and liaised with civilians, charities, UN, media and private.

UK / Germany

Completed the full time MBA course at Manchester Business School. Undertook a three month internship with a major pharmaceutical company to implement six sigma processes onto a manufacturing site.

Various

Served five years in the British Army as an officer in The King's Regiment. Left the army at the rank of Captain and in the post of Company Second in Command. Served in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and the UK and completed training exercises in Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait and Belize.

Mba, Business

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Psychology