Bid Manager

Bid Manager

Permanent, Full Time

Location – Rugby (hybrid)

Salary – Competitive plus car allowance/company car

My client is currently recruiting a Bid Manager to join their team on major Energy/Defence/Infrastructure projects.

The successful Bid Manager will be responsible for:

• Providing and managing an overall bid programme, including the production of presentation of the bid progress at distinct governance gateways (kick off, mid-bid and settlement)
• Producing and delivering client presentations, chair client TQ meetings and undertaken precontract site visits
• Preparing and running bid workshops including bid strategy, win themes, design, risk, programme and constructability reviews
• Proactively working with the operational teams, supply chain and specialists to seek the optimal solution to differentiate the bid, including innovation
• Reviewing successful and unsuccessful submissions, feedback and lessons learnt to promote continuous improvement. Provide relevant feedback to Senior Management and other stakeholders as required. Striving for continual development of the precontract team.

My client requires the Bid Manager to have:

• 5+ years’ experience within Energy, Defence, Civils and Infrastructure projects greater than £20m from PQQs to ITTs
  • Experience of bidding and securing complex frameworks preferred
  • Experience of NEC 3 & 4 contract mechanisms and requirements with a strong commercial acumen
  • Degree qualification with an engineering discipline preferred – Undertake detailed client, project and stakeholder research as bid preparation
  • An in-depth knowledge and management of supply chain engagement at preconstruction to support estimating
  • Appreciation and knowledge of proposals, estimating and programme (P6) requirements to underpin a robust and successful bid
  • The ability to manage and control a bid programme and deliverables engaging with discipline leads / specialist matter experts (SMEs), stakeholders to develop a winning bid

If this is of interest, please apply now and we will be in contact to discuss further.

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