Associate Bid Manager - United States

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their mission‑critical systems and operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private, and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience Location: Texas, Florida, Michigan. Candidates within 25 miles of a DXC office are expected to work onsite two days per week. Role summary The Bid Manager coordinates the end-to-end pursuit process for sales opportunities, helping the team qualify, plan, govern, and progress the deal from early shaping through proposal, negotiation, and handoff. The role builds the detailed pursuit plan, aligns resources, tracks actions and risks, supports sales strategy and close planning, and keeps a geographically dispersed team moving toward common milestones. This is an individual contributor role that leads through influence. It is designed for a developing bid or pursuit professional with 3 to 5 years of relevant experience who can independently manage defined pursuits and grow into larger, more complex deals with coaching. Success in the role A successful Bid Manager brings structure, visibility, and momentum to the pursuit. The team knows what must happen, who owns it, when it is due, what is at risk, and which decisions are needed. The pursuit moves through governance with accurate records and reaches each client milestone prepared and on time. What you will do | Qualification and shaping Support Sales and the opportunity owner in understanding, shaping, and continually qualifying the opportunity. Research the client, business objectives, competitive landscape, and available information to inform sales and solution strategy. Help organize and facilitate qualification, strategy, and best practice sessions. Support clear opportunity positioning, decision materials, and accurate opportunity data in Salesforce or comparable CRM tools. Maintain focus on the deal construct, qualification criteria, required investment, and conditions for success. What you will do | Pursuit management and governance Build and maintain the detailed bid plan, milestones, dependencies, action owners, and delivery dates. Estimate the resources and effort required, initiate resource requests, and surface gaps early. Coordinate engagement from Legal, Pricing, Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Delivery, and other required functions. Track pursuit risks, issues, assumptions, actions, and decisions, then drive closure or escalate appropriately. Support the opportunity owner in developing and executing the close plan. Guide team members on current sales processes, governance requirements, policies, and approval expectations. Maintain a regular cadence of pursuit meetings, reviews, status updates, and decision points. Adapt the pursuit plan when priorities, client timelines, or resource availability change. What you will do | Response, client, and close activities Partner closely with the Proposal Lead to coordinate response development, reviews, clarifications, and submission. Own formal client communication channels and maintain organized records of documents and information exchanged. Support preparation for client workshops, presentations, clarification sessions, and negotiations. Track commitments, actions, and agreements during negotiation and precontract activity. Coordinate handoff to account and delivery teams and support readiness for contract startup. Complete records management, reusable content submission, win or loss review, and lessons learned activities. Mandatory Requirements 3 to 5 years of experience in bid management, pursuit management, sales operations, proposal management, project management, deal support, or a closely related role. Experience coordinating cross functional teams against a detailed