Bid Manager

Salary: £33,600 – £42,000 per year

This challenging and exciting opportunity, based in either Yorkshire or the North East, requires a highly talented and experienced bid, estimating or tendering professional possessing demonstrable experience from the HV power sector, and this can be from having worked for a client side or contracting organisation.

Our client aims to be the UK’s leading provider of power infrastructure for the public and private sectors. They believe in growing their business in a progressive and sustainable manner, respecting our community and the environment. Due to an increase in contract awards, a significant forward order workload, and a dedication to continued profitable long-term growth, our client is now seeking to appoint an experienced Bid Manager to support the submission of innovative proposals for the company’s major projects, contracts and frameworks.

Your primary responsibility is to lead and manage the development of accurate and timely major project estimates, and submit competitive bids and proposals for the company’s clients. You will be the main interface for major project bidding activity and operate as a senior member of the management team.

The Role, Responsibilities & Requirements

* Determine and propose alternatives to plans and specifications in order to demonstrate to clients a true commitment to value engineering

* Enhance the current major projects tendering process to improve the company’s ability to win work

* Lead and contribute towards pre and post tender bid meetings with clients and their representatives in pursuit of securing work

* Grow the capacity of the supply chain to diversify the company’s capability for delivery of complex solutions and to achieve best value

* Demonstrate excellent negotiation skills in order to negotiate and conclude the securing of opportunities for the supply of works, goods, materials and services

* Ensure appropriate follow through to understand the status of bids post submission, until opportunities are closed

* Aid the analysis of commercial terms with the context of the intended scope to ensure contractual obligations are transferred into delivery

* Ensure contractual requirements are reflected into estimates and marked for attention as part of handover process with operational teams

* Formulate an early view of the intended delivery team and work alongside them to upskill the understanding of submissions with plans and programmes flowing through to delivery and avoiding a transactional handover, ultimately to ensure the business is “fit for construction

* Assist the Tender & Estimating teams to meet their financial targets, thus allowing the business to achieve its growth targets

* Develop and maintain effective key client relationships, in the pursuit of securing major projects

* Act in a manner that promotes best practice in relation to safety performance

* Ensure Major Projects Tendering Engineers are progressively upskilled to meet current and future work pipeline demands

* Ensure cash management is a consideration when sanctioning bidding opportunities

* Create handover culture aimed at ensuring successful operational delivery

* Talent profile all resources, highlighting the growth potential of all those assessed

* Tailor standard quotation letters to submit bespoke, proposals, bids and quotations to clients

A highly attractive basic salary plus lucrative bonus earning potential and an extensive benefits package is on offer to the successfully appointed candidate, along with security and longevity of work, given the company’s market leading status and their continued dedication to ambitious growth.

We are committed to equal opportunities. We wish to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and appointed solely on their suitability for the post irrespective of race, gender, age, disability, caring responsibilities, sexual orientation, marital / civil partnership status, religion / belief or nationality.