Job Description
Head of Bid Management - Civil Engineering
Location: Swindon
Salary: £95.000 - £109,000 plus car / allowance and package
Summary
A leading international civil engineering company, specialising in complex market segments such as Transportation, Energy, Tunnelling, Building, Civil and Structural Engineering is looking to recruit a skilled and enthusiastic Head of Bid Management to be based in their Head Office in Swindon, Wiltshire.
The role will require you to drive, develop and review bid strategies regularly through the bid process while maintaining a solid understanding of contract, technical and pricing processes to allow challenge of proposed strategies.
You will motivate and energise bid teams and individuals and have the ability to monitor and influence multiple bids concurrently and ensure that company and corporate governance/procedures are adhered to at all stages of bids.
You must have the ability to achieve desired outcomes from individuals and groups not immediately within the work winning team while engaging with the wider operational team to gain buy-in before, during and after bidding.
The role requires you to identify and solve issues within organisation, individual and logistics to facilitate bid process and production, identifying what information is needed and seeking out those individuals within the organisation that can contribute to a solution.
About you
It is essential that you have:
1. Experience in a similar role in the Civils / Construction industry
2. A Degree in Civil Engineering or an equivalent qualification.
3. Strong coaching skills and be able to actively encourage and maintain positivity within teams.
4. Confident in distributing key information to the senior team as required to facilitate timely and informed decision making.
5. A sound knowledge of the UK construction market and knowledge of relevant procurement legislation
6. Commercial awareness of different forms of contract