We’re looking for a talented Bid Manager to join our Central Bid Team, playing a key role in shaping and securing exciting opportunities across our Infrastructure and Buildings business. This is a fantastic opportunity to influence high-profile bids, work with diverse teams, and make a real impact on our continued growth and success.
About the Role
As a key member of the Central Bid Team, the Bid Manager plays a pivotal role in driving successful work winning across our Infrastructure and Buildings business. Working closely with the Senior Bid Manager and guided by the Head of Bids, they bring they bring enthusiasm and a proactive mindset, as well as structure and creativity to every opportunity.
This role offers the chance to shape and influence a diverse portfolio of regional and national bids across both public and private sectors in the UK. With a collaborative and solutions focused approach, the Bid Manager provides a responsive, adaptable service building strong relationships, elevating bid quality, and helping position us for success in a highly competitive market.
The Bid Manager leads bids end-to-end, driving momentum throughout the tender lifecycle and partnering closely with the Bid Director to shape compelling, winning solutions. They challenge and support business leads and technical SMEs to think strategically, sharpen value propositions, and deliver high-quality, client focused submissions.
With a strong focus on rigour and consistency, the Bid Manager ensures best practice processes are embedded and global governance requirements met at every stage from pre-bid through to submission and beyond. This includes managing EOIs, SQs, ITTs, and supporting impactful interview and presentation stages.
They also play a key role in supporting national frameworks and associated call-off and mini-competition tenders, where precision, compliance, and disciplined bid management are essential to success.
Your Impact
Pre-Bid:
1. Familiarise self with the client portal for bid release and upload protocols
2. Work with the business leads to ensure Client Relationship Management (CRM) tool entries are accurate, and reflect the correct bid status - to aid global and central reporting
3. Drive discussions on teaming or supply chain partners to ensure key decisions are made
4. Follow global governance processes throughout decision stages
5. Capture Proposition/Win Themes prior to Kick-off
6. Work with assigned Bid Writer to establish if a bid writing style guide, or delivery of a bespoke bid writing masterclass for question owners would be beneficial
Throughout the Bid:
7. Organise for or download tender documents and distribute to core bid team members
8. Ensure all client documentation, contract, specification, and tender documents have been received, read, and understood by you ready for cascade
9. Digest and understand the question/scoring mechanisms
10. Drive the Go/No Go Assessment meeting with Bid Director(s) and business leads
11. Analyse client requirements, deliverables, defined deadlines and question owners with the Bid Director - build the bid programme
12. Collaborate with designated bid team to establish wider analysis of the tender documentation to uncover what is important to this client and agree our discriminators, USPs and added value points
13. Diarise, facilitate and lead the Bid Kick-off meeting
14. Agree structure of response template
15. Create templates including CVs and case studies
16. Consider resource needed for bid writing and graphics and visuals e.g. org charts or infographics, and engage with Central Bid Team to evaluate and secure resource
17. Create and manage the collaborative working platform e.g. SharePoint / Teams - ensuring folder structures and version control is adhered to
18. Consider required logistics for face-to-face workshops and meetings and book accordingly
19. Work with Bid Director and Commercial Manager and relevant technical leads to gather and issue any clarifications required to the client.
20. Proactively drive actions across the team of contributors against the Bid Plan
21. Own and update the Bid Plan, highlighting interdependencies. Monitor and report on progress weekly to the wider bid team.
22. Ensure commercial and contracts information is extracted and sent to the appropriate teams for prompt action. Consider and factor in any Service Level Agreements in place for some support functions
23. Monitor client portal and disseminate and communicate client tender clarifications. Facilitate appropriate response actions.
24. Manage and facilitate Storyboard workshops
25. Work with Bid Writer to identify key areas that authors may need support on
26. Prepare and format proposal documents in line with Stantec brand and specific bid brand (MS Word/PowerPoint or Adobe InDesign) ensuring they are of a high and consistent quality
27. Ensure documents are visually appealing making best use of space and ensuring content meets the guidelines and restrictions set by the client
28. Create and help source visual graphics to complement our responses
29. Source relevant images for bid/presentation covers and project profiles
30. Manage the bid writing, collation, and review programme (e.g. aligning the bid strategy throughout the reviews)
31. Organise meetings, issue clear instructions and diarise placeholders to all reviewers and question owners. Consolidate all comments and feedback and ensure version control is strictly adhered to throughout
32. Drive solution development discussions, reminding contributors what is important to the client, e.g. discriminators, USPs and our added value points
33. Engage with the Commercial Manager to ensure the development of the commercial submission includes input from the Bid Director
34. Take the lead in ensuring content is compliant, quality checked and ready for upload
35. Ensure all content is checked and ready for upload e.g. fact checked, cross-referenced, figures captioned, spelling, grammar, navigation etc. Involve Bid Writer, where relevant.
36. Close out any actions from commercial sign off meeting with the Bid Director
37. Upload the submission ensuring compliance checklist is followed
38. Follow CRM guidance with reference to submitted bids
Post Bid:
39. Monitor portal and act promptly on actions and any further clarifications or requests for information from the client
40. Prepare for, and agree with Bid Director, who will lead further negotiations e.g. interviews
41. Lead and manage an internal lesson learned workshop with wider bid team and disseminate feedback. Record and share lessons learned and best practice
42. Engage with Central Bid Team to capture any new content for the Content Library
43. Analyse and cascade any client feedback
44. Schedule a formal client debrief meeting
About You
45. Experience in a previous bidding/business development role
46. Understanding of the bid process and the dynamics of a bid team
47. Strong time and project management skills with ability to prioritise
48. Problem solving and lessons-learnt attitude
49. Experience with electronic portals
50. Ability to work collaboratively with both internal and external clients
51. Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
52. Advanced Microsoft skills e.g. Office 365
53. Previous experience in Adobe Creative Cloud, InDesign and Illustrator would be advantageous, as well as creative flair and an interest in infographic design
54. A diligent, thorough approach with keen attention to detail
55. Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple conflicting deadlines
56. A self-starter with a 'can do' attitude
57. Must be flexible around working hours (when required) to support strict bid timetables
Key Stakeholders
58. Head of Bids
59. Senior Bid Manager
60. Wider Central Bid Team
61. Bid Directors (assigned by business)
62. Contributors/Question owners (assigned by business)
63. Internal Subject Matter Experts (Lead Technical Authors)
64. National Discipline Directors, Regional Business Leads
65. Strategic Improvement teams e.g. Public & Private Sector, Frameworks Lead, Strategic Pursuit Director
66. Commercial Managers
67. Bid Reviewers
68. Legal/Contracts/Risk Team
69. Functional Service teams
70. External Joint Venture Partners & sub-consultants
Why Join Us
71. We put people first: We're proud of our friendly, inclusive and collaborative environment where everyone feels valued and driven to succeed.
72. We are driven to achieve: Named in the top 50 companies to work by Glassdoor 2025. Recognised by Corporate Knights as one of the world's top 10 most sustainable companies 2025. Named ‘Best Place to Work’ and ‘International Consulting Firm of the Year’ at the NCE Awards 2024.
73. We do what is right: Industry leading training and development as well as paid for professional subscriptions. A professional progression plan, supporting you to become chartered with ICE.
We are better together: A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)
74. Growth: We're on an exciting growth journey across the UK & Ireland - we want you to be part of it!
75. Great Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus schemes, enhanced pension plan, annual leave with the option to buy/sell additional days, private medical insurance, group income protection & life assurance included as standard as well as discounted gym membership and lots more.
76. Flexible working: Enjoy a healthy work-life balance with our hybrid approach to flexible working.
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About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.
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