Full-time Permanent Experienced
Posted 05 Sep 2025
Description
We are excited to be hiring a Bid Manager for one of our customers in the Recycling Sector
Do you have at least three years' experience of bid/tender management and ideally experience of the waste and recycling industry? Our broad customer base and service offering makes for a rewarding and varied role as Bid Manager, based at our Colnbrook office, near Heathrow. You’ll manage our tender activities and join us on a permanent full-time contract, earning £50-60k and great benefits, including:
* Discretionary company bonuses
* Pension scheme (you contribute 5% of pay, Grundon matches this) with life insurance cover
* 30 days’ annual leave (inclusive of 8 bank holidays), which will increase with service, plus the option to buy up to 5 extra days' holiday
What you’ll be doing as Bid Manager
As Bid Manager, one week you could be overseeing a bid for a multi-site retail or property management company, the next for an NHS Trust, local authority or other public-sector body, or an airport or logistics business.
You’ll manage the preparation and completion of Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQs), Invitation to Tenders (ITTs) and tender documents.
Supported by a Bid Writer, you will liaise with internal teams – Contract Management, Sales, Operations, Compliance – to come up with solutions for customers’ waste across all ‘streams’, from general waste and recycling to hazardous and clinical.
You’ll ensure full compliance requirements have been met and manage the production and delivery of tender documents.
What we’re looking for in our Tender Manager
Degree-educated.
Excellent writing and proofreading skills.
You’re highly motivated with strong organisational, time-management and communication skills.
You’re used to working to tight deadlines whilst maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.
Evidence of an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
Full UK driving licence
Working hours: 35 per week: 9am-5pm, Mon-Fri, though flexibility is required in order to meet deadlines
Join a Growing company
You’ll be joining a leading, long-established and award-winning waste management, environmental and quarrying business that develops and invests in the people that work for us. With a bright future and expansion plans, we could be a great career fit for you.
Company Overview
Thornton & Lowe has been helping businesses to grow since 2009! We have since grown in numbers and now have a directly employed core team of professionals split across our 3 key bid divisions; Bid Writing, Bid Resource and Bid Training. Our vision is to consistently deliver a customer centred, high performance service, which adds value for our clients, advance the development of our staff ahead of competitors and to assist more clients in securing contracts than any other consultancy business. Our core values are Passion & Drive, Accountability & Responsibility, Integrity & Honesty and Learning & Development.
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