Bid & Design Supervisor

Job Purpose

The Supervisor – Bid & Design leads and supports bid, tender, design, and specification activities in collaboration with Sales, Projects, and cross-functional teams. This role acts as a trusted partner in translating customer workspace strategies into effective product and service solutions that enhance Haworth’s value proposition. The position ensures high-quality design outputs, accurate pricing, margin integrity, and on-time tender submissions while driving operational excellence, financial results, and customer satisfaction.

A Glimpse of Your Daily Mission

• Supervise and collaborate with Sales teams to interpret tender and request requirements, ensuring clear alignment on scope, timelines, and deliverables.

• Oversee the preparation of design concepts, product specifications, standard and non-standard configurations, including renders, space planning, and floor plan layouts.

• Review and validate margin checks to ensure compliance with technical specifications, cost accuracy, and commercial objectives.

• Coordinate with Haworth factories and approved third-party suppliers to obtain pricing and lead times for non-standard products and special requirements using technical drawings.

• Act as a central liaison with internal teams such as Finance, Purchasing, Specials, Visualisation, Ideation, Sustainability, Supply Chain, and Project teams to ensure bid and proposal alignment.

• Ensure the creation, accuracy, and quality of operational and maintenance manuals, product presentations, and tender-related documentation.

• Govern the maintenance and archiving of drawings, specifications, and bid documents in line with document control standards.

• Consolidate, verify, and approve all tender submissions, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and on-time delivery.

• Coordinate cross-functional deliverables and serve as the primary point of clarification for scope, timelines, and technical queries during bid and tender phases.

• Lead mock-up exercises by developing mood boards, visual concepts, and high-quality presentation materials.

• Oversee the development of visual and presentation materials using appropriate design and presentation tools.

• Support and supervise electronic bid responses in collaboration with Global Account Managers.

• Supervise coordination with Project and Life Cycle Service Managers on churn, reconfiguration, and service-related works, including proposal development and pricing.

• Review and approve margin calculations and order documentation for projects and service works prior to order processing.

• Act as an escalation point for Sales and Customer Service queries, ensuring timely and effective resolution.

• Coach, guide, and support Bid and Design team members to ensure consistent quality, adherence to standards, and continuous improvement.

Your Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of relevant commercial, bid, or design experience, including leadership or senior-level responsibilities.

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

• Strong working knowledge of AutoCAD, configuration tools, and Adobe design software such as Photoshop and InDesign.

• Experience working with project matrix or equivalent systems and managing complex, cross-functional workflows.

• Demonstrated ability to maintain high attention to detail, manage multiple priorities, and work effectively under tight deadlines.

• Strong coordination, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the ability to supervise, coach, and guide team members.

• Willingness to work overtime when required to meet business, project, and tender deadlines.

Travel Requirements

No travel required.

About Us

Haworth is one of the world's largest manufacturers of office furniture, providing solutions for tomorrow's customers worldwide. At the centre of our work is the human being: what does a person need to work, what pushes them, motivates them, and what makes people feel comfortable at work? Only if we can answer that question are we able to introduce designs to our customers that help them achieve their goals. To stay one step ahead, we invest in our own research, collaborate with a worldwide network of partners, and participate in think tanks that shape the future of work. The family-owned company, headquartered in Holland, Michigan, United States, employs more than 8,000 people and is represented in more than 150 countries across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.