Job Title: Bid Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife, Bristol or Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £51, - £63, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract - 52 Week FTC
Role ID: SF
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Bid Manager at either our Rosyth, Bristol or Devonport sites.
The role
As a Bid Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a critical role in securing high-value contracts that support national security and defence capabilities.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for leading and coordinating the development of competitive, compliant, and compelling proposals in response to complex government and military procurement opportunities. Additionally, you will:
1. Deliver compliant bid management aligned with Babcock’s Business Management System (BMS) and guidance.
2. Lead and line-manage a multi-disciplinary bid team across virtual and in-person environments.
3. Support Business Development with effective management of customer procurement portals.
4. Coordinate cross-functional teams to produce compelling, compliant, and competitive proposals.
5. Develop and oversee bid plans, schedules, and team engagement throughout the bid lifecycle.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is adaptable and can be delivered from various locations including Rosyth, Plymouth or Bristol.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Bid Manager
6. Extensive experience as a Bid Manager
7. Proven background in Business Growth, capture, or solution development, with a track record of success.
8. Strong relationship-building skills with experience leading pan-business, cross-functional teams.
9. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to manage customer and supplier engagements at senior/board level.
Qualifications for the Bid Manager
10. Ideally Degree Qualified
11. Business Growth professional with hands-on experience applying recognised methodologies (e.g. Shipley) on major bids.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at .
What we offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
20. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.