The Role

The Bid Manager – Pre-Contract & Tendering will lead and manage the full bid lifecycle, from initial opportunity review through to final submission and post-tender clarification.

You will play a pivotal role in driving our work-winning strategy, ensuring submissions are competitive, commercially sound and aligned with my clients standards, capabilities, and long-term growth objectives.

This is a senior position requiring strong leadership, organisation, and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple tenders simultaneously.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end bid process, ensuring all submissions are compliant, high quality and delivered to deadline.
• Develop and manage tender programmes, coordinating inputs from estimating, commercial, technical, planning and operational teams.
• Prepare compelling and technically robust tender submissions, including methodology, programme narrative, resource strategy, risk assessments and value engineering proposals.
• Work closely with senior leadership to shape bid strategy, positioning and win themes.
• Ensure commercial awareness throughout the tender process to maintain competitiveness while protecting margin.
• Manage clarification queries and support post-tender negotiations where required.
• Conduct lessons-learned reviews to continually improve bid quality, efficiency and win rates.
• Maintain and develop strong working relationships with supply chain partners to enhance submission quality.

About You

• Proven experience in bid management or pre-construction roles within construction, civil engineering, or infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of construction methodologies and commercial drivers.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to produce persuasive, structured, and professional tender responses.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Confident communicator capable of engaging with senior stakeholders and operational teams.
• Strategic mindset with a proactive, solutions-focused approach.

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to join a growing, ambitious business with a clear strategy for expansion

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Career progression within a dynamic and expanding group
• A collaborative and supportive working culture
• The opportunity to directly influence the future growth of the business