Location: Office-based 3 days per week (Warrington / Daresbury)
Contract: Permanent or Contract
Reports to: Chief Sales Officer
Security Clearance: SC required
The role
We’re hiring a highly confident, commercially switched-on Bid Manager to lead a business-critical central government contract defence and help elevate our wider public-sector bid capability.
This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You’ll take full control of bids end-to-end, shaping strategy, driving momentum, challenging assumptions, and ensuring submissions are compelling, compliant, and competitive.
Initially, you’ll be deep in delivery. Over time, you’ll help professionalise and scale the bid function, improving processes, strengthening content, and setting a clear standard for how government RFx responses are run.
You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, including the Chief Sales Officer, VP of Enterprise Accounts, The CEO and central government customers, so confidence, clarity, and gravitas really matter here.
What we’re looking for:
This role suits someone with a driver mentality, confident, decisive, and comfortable taking the lead, but with an amiable, collaborative style that brings people with them.
You’ll need to be:
* Highly confident engaging senior internal and external stakeholders
* Comfortable pushing pace, setting direction, and owning outcomes
* Calm under pressure, structured in approach, and persuasive in writing
* Commercially aware, understanding what wins, not just what complies
You’ll already have a strong background in UK public sector or defence bidding, with experience across frameworks such as CCS, BOS, G-Cloud, DOS, MOD/JSP.
Key responsibilities
* Own the full bid lifecycle; qualification, win strategy, content creation, submission, and post-bid review
* Lead complex central government and defence bids, including high-value contract defences
* Drive bid strategy and narrative, not just coordination
* Manage inputs from sales, delivery, technical, and leadership teams
* Ensure submissions are fully compliant, compelling, and on time
* Improve bid processes, templates, and content libraries over time
* Act as a confident point of contact with senior stakeholders and clients
Experience & background
* Proven delivery of complex public-sector or defence bids, ideally £1m+
* Strong working knowledge of UK procurement frameworks (CCS, G-Cloud, DOS, MOD, etc.)
* Experience operating in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
* SC clearance held
Why this role
* Salary uplift to reflect seniority and responsibility
* High visibility with senior leadership
* Genuine ownership and influence over how bids are done
* A role where confidence, judgement, and drive are valued, not micromanaged
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