Post a Bidding Round in Minutes. Awarded at Full Context.
Indeavor Job Bidding runs the entire bidding workflow inside your scheduling platform. Openings reach the right people, preferences come back ranked, and the schedule updates itself once you award. Fair, fast, and transparent for everyone involved.
Trusted by the world's most mission-critical enterprises
The Bid is Where Trust Is Won Lost.
When bids live in spreadsheets, paper, and email, every round costs days of work, frustrates employees, and produces awards you cannot easily defend.
Every round costs you days
Someone builds the bid sheet, hands it out, collects responses, and reconciles by hand. Participation is low so supervisors spend the round chasing people for answers.
Awarding decisions you can't defend
When the facts behind a decision are scattered across systems, criteria get applied unevenly. In unionized environments, every contested award is a grievance waiting to happen.
The schedule still gets updated by hand
Someone still has to move the winners onto the schedule by hand. Errors creep in, start dates slip, and the people who won a spot are left wondering when it actually takes effect.
From decision to posted, in minutes.
Standing up a round takes minutes instead of days. You decide what is open and who is eligible, and it reaches exactly those people. Nothing to build, nothing to hand out, nobody to remind.
- Openings live in minutes, not days of prep work
- The right people reached automatically, on every shift
- One round can cover many openings at once
Effortless for employees. Defensible for administrators
For Employees
- See what is open and put in for it in under a minute
- Automatic push and in-app notifications when bidding opens and awards are made
- Greater transparency and fairness in the process
For Administrators
- Launch rounds in minutes with nothing to build or distribute
- Decide from one view instead of five spreadsheets
- Apply awarding criteria consistently and award in a few clicks
- Awarded positions update the live schedule on the effective date
Bidding happens in the same Indeavor Engage app your employees already use for their schedules.
No new system to learn, no duplicate data entry.
What a Real Bidding Process Delivers
Less administrative work going in, stronger retention and trust coming out.
To launch a bidding round
Not days of spreadsheet prep and distribution
Retention with strong internal mobility
vs 4.1 years without - Deloitte Internal Mobility Insights
Spreadsheets, paper, or manual updates
The whole round stays in Indeavor
Your people bid from their phone in under a minute.
They are notified the moment bidding opens, see what is available, and put in for it in order of what they actually want, right from the app they already use to check their schedule. Make bidding this easy and participation climbs, which finally gives you a true read on what your workforce wants.
- Notified the moment when bidding opens and when awards land
- Preferences submitted in priority order, in seconds
- Works from any shift, from anywhere, no paperwork
One process, many bidding scenarios
Open Enrollment
Bidding
Put a full slate of openings in front of everyone who is eligible, all within one window
Cross-Department
Moves
Let people put in for opportunities outside their home department or unit.
Multiple Openings at Once
Fill several seats on the same pattern in a single round instead of running it repeatedly.
Seniority-Driven Awarding
Honor the criteria your agreements call for, applied consistently on every round.
A Record You Can Produce
Keep a clean, exportable history of every round for audits and grievance defense.
Purpose-built for Unionized, Shift-based Operations
Consistent criteria, a defensible record, and a schedule that auto-updates. Exactly what complex frontline environments need.
Every bid in one view. Every decision defensible.
Every submitted bid lands on a single review screen with the employee context that matters most. Apply your awarding criteria, then award in a few clicks. As of the assignment date, the new base schedule writes back to the live schedule automatically and the employee is notified instantly.
- Full bidder context - seniority, time in position, qualifications side by side
- Stay consistent - the same criteria applied the same way, round after round
- Keep the receipts - a record of the finalized round, ready when someone asks
Frequently Asked Questions
Indeavor Job Bidding brings the entire bidding workflow inside your scheduling platform. Supervisors launch rounds in a few clicks, employees browse base schedules and submit ranked preferences in seconds on the Indeavor Engage mobile app, and every bid lands on one centralized review screen with the context that matters for fair awarding. When you award, the new assignment writes back to the live schedule automatically. It replaces spreadsheets, paper forms, and email chains with one guided, end-to-end process.
Employees receive an automatic notification when a bidding window opens. In the Engage app they view the open period, choose the base schedules they want, review their selections, and drag them into priority order before submitting. The whole flow takes seconds and works from any device on any shift, which is why participation goes up compared to paper or email.
When bidding closes, every submitted bid appears on a single sortable review screen with seniority date, time in current position, employee ID, and qualifications side by side. Because the same context is visible for every bidder, your awarding criteria get applied consistently. Completed bidding grids can be exported to keep a transparent record of each round. In unionized environments, this consistency and record-keeping reduce the risk of grievances and make contested decisions easier to defend.
Awarding is a few clicks. As of the assignment date you set, the awarded base schedule is written to the live schedule automatically. Any prior base schedule assignment is stopped and future ones are removed, and the employee is notified instantly that they received the award. There is no separate spreadsheet to update and no manual re-keying.
Yes. You can post multiple base schedules in a single bidding period, award the same base schedule to multiple qualified bidders in one round, and target a round to specific groups or to everyone who is eligible. Common patterns include open-enrollment bidding across several positions, cross-department opportunities, and seniority-based awarding.
Job Bidding is native to the Indeavor Workforce Management platform, not a separate integration. Your base schedules, employee records, seniority, and qualifications are already in the system, so there is no duplicate data entry and no synchronization delay. Awards update the live schedule directly, and bidding happens in the same Indeavor Engage app employees already use for their schedules.
Yes. Book a live demo to see the supervisor setup, mobile bidding in Engage, the centralized review screen, and automatic awarding, working with real data.