The Role
The Bid Manager – Pre-Contract & Tendering will lead and manage the full bid lifecycle, from initial opportunity review through to final submission and post-tender clarification.
You will play a pivotal role in driving our work-winning strategy, ensuring submissions are competitive, commercially sound and aligned with my clients standards, capabilities, and long-term growth objectives.
This is a senior position requiring strong leadership, organisation, and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple tenders simultaneously.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the end-to-end bid process, ensuring all submissions are compliant, high quality and delivered to deadline.
* Develop and manage tender programmes, coordinating inputs from estimating, commercial, technical, planning and operational teams.
* Prepare compelling and technically robust tender submissions, including methodology, programme narrative, resource strategy, risk assessments and value engineering proposals.
* Work closely with senior leadership to shape bid strategy, positioning and win themes.
* Ensure commercial awareness throughout the tender process to maintain competitiveness while protecting margin.
* Manage clarification queries and support post-tender negotiations where required.
* Conduct lessons-learned reviews to continually improve bid quality, efficiency and win rates.
* Maintain and develop strong working relationships with supply chain partners to enhance submission quality.
About You
* Proven experience in bid management or pre-construction roles within construction, civil engineering, or infrastructure.
* Strong understanding of construction methodologies and commercial drivers.
* Excellent written communication skills with the ability to produce persuasive, structured, and professional tender responses.
* Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
* Confident communicator capable of engaging with senior stakeholders and operational teams.
* Strategic mindset with a proactive, solutions-focused approach.
Why Join?
This is an opportunity to join a growing, ambitious business with a clear strategy for expansion
* Competitive salary and benefits
* Career progression within a dynamic and expanding group
* A collaborative and supportive working culture
* The opportunity to directly influence the future growth of the business