Senior Bid Manager
Vehicle Sales | Emergency Services | Hybrid - West Yorkshire
Let's be honest.
Most 'Bid Writer' roles are glorified admin jobs.
Uploading documents. Chasing people for answers. Formatting PDFs. Fighting portals.
This isn't one of them.
This is a high-impact, commercially critical role inside a market-leading engineering and manufacturing business supplying specialist vehicles into the emergency services sector.
When this team wins, the business grows. When they lose, everyone feels it. That's why this role matters.
We're looking for someone who knows how to turn technical complexity into commercial wins.
Someone who understands public sector procurement, can see straight through weak tender responses, and knows how to build submissions that score.
You'll be leading end-to-end bid activity across major tenders, frameworks, DPS submissions, and public sector opportunities-working closely with senior leadership, sales, engineering, production, finance, and operations.
This is not a 'sit quietly and write' role.
You'll challenge stakeholders.
You'll improve processes.
You'll shape win strategy.
You'll own quality.
You'll raise standards.
And you'll be trusted to do it.
What you'll be doing:
1. Leading high-value tender submissions from qualification through to final submission
* Managing PQQs, ITTs, DP...