Nick Benedek Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Management and leadership of campaigns, bids and captures for high fidelity simulation and training solutions.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

BenBeta is my company through which I fulfil interim positions and provide contracting services to my clients.The principal services and key skills I provide are:Bid DirectorBid ManagerCapture LeadInterim Commercial DirectorInterim Business Development DirectorCommercial ManagementProcurement ManagementBid WriterTechnology Solution DesignIT Managed Services DesignContract NegotiationsUK Data Protection BillHere are some of the interim positions and services I am currently or have recently provided:Mid 2018 onwardsProviding consultancy and capture management services to a leading global defence contractor for multiple UK defence procurements for training, technology and transformation.Early 2018Led the bid on behalf of a leading technology solution provider for a Higher Education technology framework.GDPR Awareness Workshops for the senior management of a public sector body to establish a compliance programme and understand the lawful basis for their processing of personal data and the variations and information rights exemptions available under the new UK Data Protection Bill 2018. Also, advice on how to deal with data relating to vulnerable children, why consent should be obtained for some types of data but not for others and the difference in information rights for each lawful basis of data collection.

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Mid 2018 onwardsProviding consultancy services to a leading global defence contractor with bid direction (capture lead) consultancy for multiple UK defence procurements for training, technology and transformation. Also assisting in the product development strategy, private venture planning and the execution of a recruitment drive for a range of specialist analysis and engineering roles.Early 2018Led the bid on behalf of a leading technology solution provider for a Higher Education technology framework.GDPR Awareness Workshops for the senior management of a public sector body to establish a compliance programme and understand the lawful basis for their processing of personal data and the variations and information rights exemptions available under the new UK Data Protection Bill 2018. Also, advice on how to deal with data relating to vulnerable children, why consent should be obtained for some types of data but not for others and the difference in information rights for each lawful basis of data collection.

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1) Provided Bid Director consultancy services for a procurement for professional services and associated technology solution into the rail industry. This involved the definition of the solution, design workshops with the various internal client delivery teams, production of a target operating model and bid proposal production and submission.2) Provided solution design consultancy services for a procurement for the establishment of a new UK government digital web service following a successful 2-year pilot. This involved the design of an OFFICIAL-SENSISTIVE rated funding management solution, associated secure hosting and the sourcing of software development and hosting providers for my client. This procurement has been successful and as of early 2018 resulted in preferred bidder status.

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This medium term contract to October 2017 was to provide business consultancy to a leading technology reseller to assist them grow their IT solutions business. This included bid direction and winning a range of solution contracts, advice on customer spend analysis, sales engagement processes, business development and procurement activities, commercial agreements, pre-sales team structure and solution architecture.

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This short term contract was to act as Bid Director for two related bids for a UK Government Crown Commercial Service procurement. This procurement was for IT services on a framework predicted to be worth £300m over the next 2 years. My responsibilities included the identification and management of bid resources, capability analysis and solution definition, competitor analysis and bid proposal production.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

As interim Chief Technology Officer / Commercial Director for a technology start-up, I was responsible for the production of their technical strategy, commercial development plan and key event schedule as well as assisting in the production of the business forecast and investment memorandum – all in order to assist the company in seeking a new round of funding.

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Over this ten year period, I undertook various Commercial Director and Bid Director roles. This included being responsible for managing the commercial and business development strategy for Ramesys and in particular for our learning platform solutions and the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. I managed the legal and financial modelling teams, solutions and capability definition, bid management and partner management.As a result, we won several high profile contracts and moved from outside the top-50 to being the number two education technology provider in the UK market in just two years and in December 2005, I was part of the management team that undertook a management buy-out of Ramesys and in March 2010, we sold the company to Capita.Following the acquisition of Ramesys by Capita, I transferred into the Bid Management Team and directed IT outsourcing bids for Capita IT Services and led the IT work stream for various Capita Group ‘big ticket’ outsourcing bids. These were deals for defence, central and local government, health and financial services that ranged in value from £10m to £100m.

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I was responsible for the technical direction and strategy of the company. A key achievement was for me to establish Ramesys as the first Microsoft Gold Certified Partner (Security Solutions) in the world. In order to stimulate the use of learning platforms and to promote interoperability and integration within the UK education sector, I served on multiple Government advisory committees in Westminster.

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Responsibilities included leading the technical consultancy for the company for the implementation of accounting systems, networks, email and office productivity tools, as well as project management, training and operational support. This was across a broad range of market sectors including health, construction, local government and financial services.

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Rather than taking up my place at Leeds University to study Electronic Engineering, I started my own business in conjunction with three other partners. This involved the creation of an online business database, accessible nationwide from clients’ computer systems, which preceded the internet and web by many years.