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