Overview The Bid Manager is responsible for planning and leading the delivery of bids and proposals, ensuring high-quality, accurate tender responses in line with company standards, brand, and processes. This role focuses on infrastructure bidding, requiring strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and persuasive writing skills to secure successful outcomes. The Bid Manager translates win strategies and business objectives into compelling, customer-focused, error-free documents and presentations, managing activity through bid plans and escalating risks where appropriate. They also contribute to improvement initiatives that enhance the organisation’s ability to win work. Key Responsibilities Guide stakeholders in analysing client goals, drivers, technical and commercial requirements, market positioning, and competition, ensuring governance standards (e.g., Go/No-Go, Golden Rules Reviews) are met. Facilitate workshops with bid teams to shape and refine a compelling proposition. Work closely with marketing, communications, and other stakeholders to develop and deliver external communications and account-based marketing activities. Analyse tender documentation, highlighting priorities and ensuring compliance with bid processes. Undertake client, project, scope, stakeholder, and competitor research to strengthen bids. Champion the agreed bid strategy across the team. Own and manage the bid programme, identifying interdepende...