Bid Strategy Lead

About Think Research

The role

What you will do

• Own and improve the end-to-end bid process; coordinate contributors across business functions and drive each response to on-time submission.
• Run bid/no-bid decisions with Sales and create response plans with compliance matrices, owners, deadlines, and review gates.
• Write and edit compliant responses; coordinate pricing approvals; build a reusable content library.
• Evaluate and implement an RFP management platform; own intake, a 12-month calendar, procurement portal monitoring, formatting, forms, and compliance checks.
• Support presentations, demos, and clarifications; run debriefs and track submissions, win rate, and cycle time.

What you bring

• 5+ years of bid or proposal management experience; health technology, public sector, or enterprise software and services experience is ideal.
• Experience running complex public-sector RFPs end to end, including responses of 100+ pages with many contributors.
• Strong writing, editing, project management, deadline management, and Canadian public procurement knowledge.
• Comfort working with senior leaders and holding them to deadlines.

Nice to have

• APMP certification; healthcare, virtual care, or pharmacy knowledge.
• US state or group purchasing organization procurement experience.
• Experience with security and privacy questionnaires such as SOC 2, PHIPA, or HIPAA; Loopio or Responsive proposal software; or French.

Employment and compensation

• Full-time position with an expected salary of $90,000–$110,000 CAD annually, depending on experience and qualifications.
• Canadian work experience is not required.

Workplace

• Fully remote position; the Toronto headquarters supports in-person collaboration and team events when useful.

Why Think Research

• Benefits include four weeks of paid vacation and six personal days.
• The company describes meaningful work affecting patient care, growth opportunities, mentorship, and values of teamwork, honour, innovation, impact, and knowledge.