Job Description:

Senior Bid Manager

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Bid Manager to join a leading engineering and infrastructure contractor operating within the utilities, civil engineering and infrastructure sectors.

This is a pivotal role within a lean and collaborative pre-construction team, taking ownership of a diverse portfolio of opportunities ranging from major strategic framework procurements to smaller, fast-paced project tenders. The successful candidate will lead bids from qualification through to submission, clarification and post-tender review, ensuring every proposal is compelling, compliant and delivered to the highest standard.

The role offers significant exposure to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to influence work-winning strategy across a growing and ambitious organisation.

Key Responsibilities

Bid Leadership & Strategy

• Take ownership of opportunities from qualification through to submission and post-tender review.
• Develop bid strategies, governance plans and submission programmes appropriate to each opportunity.
• Produce deliverables schedules, responsibility matrices and bid plans.
• Facilitate kick-off, solution development and answer-planning workshops.

Bid Management & Writing

• Manage multiple concurrent bids while maintaining quality and adherence to deadlines.
• Write, develop and edit high-quality submissions from first principles.
• Create persuasive, client-focused responses that clearly demonstrate value and differentiation.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships across multidisciplinary teams and senior leadership groups.
• Lead workshops and interviews to extract key evidence, differentiators and project knowledge.
• Secure timely inputs and maintain accountability across contributors.
• Resolve dependencies and proactively manage risks to programme delivery.
• Coordinate external partners, supply-chain organisations and specialist contributors as required..

About You

You will be an experienced bid professional with a proven track record of successfully managing complex opportunities within construction, infrastructure, utilities or engineering environments.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience managing bids for a main contractor.
• Strong bid-writing, editing and proofreading capability.
• Experience managing multiple live opportunities simultaneously.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders positively and effectively.
• Strong commercial awareness and understanding of how risk, programme and pricing shape winning solutions.

Desirable

• APMP accreditation or equivalent bid management qualification.
• Previous experience within the UK water sector.
• Experience delivering bids across utilities, civil engineering, infrastructure or MEICA environments.
• Knowledge of major framework procurement processes.

What's on Offer

• Opportunity to play a key role in the growth and success of a leading infrastructure business.
• Exposure to major framework and strategic opportunities.
• Collaborative and supportive working environment.
• Career development opportunities within a growing work-winning function.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.

This role would suit an experienced Senior Bid Manager, Bid Manager, Proposal Manager or Work Winning Manager looking to take ownership of high-profile infrastructure and utilities opportunities within a fast-paced pre-construction environment.