Bid Manager

Overview

In this role you lead the end-to-end bid process for major construction opportunities, shaping compelling, commercially focused submissions with cross-functional teams. You will translate technical and commercial data into persuasive client-facing content while ensuring quality and compliance. The position operates within a growing Tier 1 contractor, offering involvement across pre-construction, planning, and senior leadership to align bids with broader strategy.

A key hook is shaping how the business presents itself to existing and new clients as it diversifies into new sectors.

• Lead and manage the end-to-end bid process for major construction opportunities.
• Develop bid strategies, win themes, executive summaries and high-quality tender responses.
• Collaborate with estimating, pre-construction, planning and operations to create credible submissions.
• Translate complex technical and commercial information into client-facing content.
• Own bid quality, compliance, consistency and presentation.
• Manage multiple live tenders, stakeholders and deadlines.
• Review tender requirements to ensure full submission compliance.
• Support client presentations, interviews and tender meetings.
• Challenge information, identify gaps, and strengthen submissions with project teams.
• Align bids with wider business and client strategies with senior leadership.
• Identify opportunities to improve bid processes, quality and effectiveness.
• Support development of the wider bids and proposals function.

• Proven experience as Bid Manager, Proposals Manager or similar in a Tier 1/main contractor environment.
• Strong experience managing construction tenders from strategy to submission.
• Ideally experience with two-stage tendering.
• DfE / Education sector experience desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to turn technical and commercial information into client-facing content.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Attention to tender compliance and detail.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and competing priorities.
• Experience preparing presentations and supporting tender interviews.
• Commercially aware and strategic bidding approach.
• Experience across Education/DfE, Retail, Stadia/Sports, Commercial or similar sectors advantageous.

• stakeholder management
• attention to detail
• clear written and verbal communication
• end-to-end bid management
• two-stage tendering
• tender compliance