Location: Nationwide Background check required: None Closing Date: 1 May 2024 An excellent opportunity awaits a Bid Director ready to take a leading role in shaping the Kier Transportation business by retaining existing contracts, securing new term contracts, major projects, and frameworks to drive planned and sustained growth. The role will be primarily focused on growth in the rail sector. With this role you can expect a competitive salary, bonus, income protection, annual health screening, private medical cover and more…. Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment. Location: Nationwide Contract: Permanent Fulltime Responsibilities As a Bid Director, your role entails overseeing the management, leadership, and direction of complex tender opportunities involving multidisciplinary teams. From identifying opportunities to final submission, you'll ensure the quality of bids, collaborate with operational colleagues to agree on solutions, craft attractive commercial submissions, and effectively communicate Kier Transportation's values and strengths in written narratives. Your day to day will include: Understanding client requirements including attending client meetings, industry events and monitoring public sector drivers and incorporating this intelligence into the Kier proposition Overseeing bid governance in alignment with Kier Transportation's culture of performance excellence, including leading presentations of tenders at key stages of the lifecycle to the Kier Transportation leadership team Collaborating with the business development and work winning director to identify, plan for and deliver the appropriate opportunities to achieve the targets within the business plan Managing a team of bid managers and bid writers and a virtual bid team drawn from specialists across the sector What are we looking for? This role of Bid Director is great if you have: Preconstruction experience within the rail sector Working knowledge of Network Rail Vast experience in a similar role Rewards and benefits We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here. Diversity and inclusion Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. We look forward to seeing your application to join the constructionrevolution joinkier LI-JB2 Documents Bid Director (Transportation) JD 2024.pdf (35.70 KB)