MB906: Head of Bid Management
While professional experience and qualifications are key for this role, make sure to check you have the preferable soft skills before applying if required.
Location: Swindon
Salary: £100,000 - £110,000 + Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP
Overview:
First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic national construction business who are looking to recruit a Head of Bid Management on a permanent basis due to growth based at their Swindon depot.
Duties and Responsibilities:
* To provide strategic management to bid teams.
* Ensuring bid teams are established to perform and meet the work winning targets.
* Ensuring that Company and Corporate governance/ procedures are adhered to at all stages of bids.
* Leading, motivating and energising bid teams and individuals.
* Coaching, encouraging and maintaining positivity within teams.
* Proactive participation and contribution to the Work Winning leadership team.
* Ability to monitor and influence multiple bids concurrently.
* Ability to solve challenging problems and influence others to get excellent results.
* Ability to achieve desired outcomes from individuals and groups not immediately within the work winning team.
* Liaising, leading and removing barriers for other work winning functions to ensure adequate support to successful tenders.
* Engaging with the wider operational team to gain buy-in before, during and after bidding.
* Liaising with Operations and Project Directors to ensure full support of bid development.
* Filtering of key information to senior team as required to facilitate timely and informed decision making.
* Proactively identifying and solving issues within organisation, individual and logistics to facilitate bid process and production.
* Able to encourage and harness creative and imaginative proposals from within team encouraging development of the best possible solution.
* Driving, developing and reviewing bid strategies regularly through the bid process
* Aligning Bid strategies with sector and organisational aims and aspirations.
* Reviewing the tender process at internal reviews to ensure it allows creative thinking and improvement.
* Recruitment and agency appointments as required.
* Chair bid managers regular meetings.
* Line management of Bid Managers.
Skills and Qualifications:
* Solid understanding of contract, technical and pricing processes to allow challenge of proposed strategies.
* Solid understanding of industry processes, able to lead storyboard sessions as required, challenge preconceptions and clear understanding of features and benefits within a submission.
* Sound knowledge of the UK construction market.
* Knowledge of relevant procurement legislation.
* Sound knowledge of Civil Engineering.
* Commercial awareness of different forms of contract. xsngvjr
* Strong presentation and client communication skills.
MB906: Head of Bid Management
Location: Swindon
Salary: £100,000 - £110,000 + Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP