I have worked in the lighting sector for 20 years for one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of exterior lighting solutions. I have always had a strong commercial aspect to every role I have undertaken with the primary objective to identify business opportunities and maximise return whilst minimising risk.I completed my degree in mechanical engineering with business management allowing me to gain knowledge of both the technical and commercial aspects of bringing product to market and delivering to the right quality, right price and to the customer’s timescale expectations.My experience of writing submissions to both private and public sectors has given me an understanding how to customise responses to meet the buyers expectations. I enjoy working with new clients to introduce them to the opportunities, forming strategic bid plans and then taking the time to understand their product/service to compile the winning bid.Career Achievements> Successfully identified and won over £8 million pounds of work for clients through tendering with a success rate >90%> Forming effective bid writing teams through training and mentoring to ensure the correct skill sets are available and contribute to every submission.> Project management of large scale lighting and structural bespoke solutions throughout the UK and Europe ranging for £50k through to £1.5 million> Forming my new business Acrospire Solutions Ltd to help other SME learn to tender and submit the winning bid. >Management of multi-disciplinary teams including production, internal sales and project engineering.Skills SummaryProject management, bid writing, PQQ submissions, new business development, bid library restructuring, tender writing, tender management, contract law, risk and opportunity analysis, policy writing, bid process management, training and mentoring, gap analysis, process improvement. tim@acrospire.co – www.acrospire.co – 07824 901796