Senior Bid Manager

Senior Bid Manager 

Are you a successful Bid Manager looking for the next step in your career? 
 

If so, Murphy would be keen to hear from you as we have a fantastic opportunity based in London available due to continued growth of our business to join our Work Winning team as a Senior Bid Manager. 
Murphy are looking for someone who can produce professionally written proposal content that clearly articulates Murphy’s value proposition. This role will be focusing on Murphy’s Transportation and Infrastructure business units.

This role will help you raise your profile and take your career to the next level. You will also receive a fantastic package. All this, whilst working with a great team.
 
So, whether you’re ready to take the next step in your career or you’re ready for a new challenge, this could be perfect for you.
 
What you will be doing:
As a Senior Bid Manager, you will already know what’s expected for the role. But here’s some key responsibilities below for you to take a look at:

• Compilation of PQQ Documents.
• Compilation of Tender Deliverables.
• Take a lead role in the qualification of potential Bids, ensuring resources are focused on the appropriate priority opportunities, both prior to and during the formal Bid process. 
• Work with the Business Development Managers to devise the relationship development action plan that will ensure appropriate contact is made with all decision makers and influencers. 
• Lead the development of the Bid strategy by ensuring the tendering team fully understand the client needs and can clearly articulate the benefits of the solution and value proposition. 
• Conduct one to one and team coaching sessions to ensure the team fully understand the client needs, the solution and can clearly articulate their role, experience and credentials in a convincing, winning manner. 
• Lead storyboarding sessions, participating in key review meetings / final document review, management of contributory authors, and document production.
• Skilled in producing and editing proposal content within a multi-disciplinary engineering environment.
• Write technical responses covering all aspects of Civil Engineering
• As jobs come in segregate them and assign the different sections to the relevant discipline (e.g. H&S, Quality etc.)
• Answer technical questions. These will relate to Rail, Highways, Airports and Ports bids.
• Compilation of Supplier Questionnaire Documents
• Weekly updates of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Pre- Qualifications, Tenders and Leads.
• Liaise with all Estimators any action any deliverables required
• Understand the core of the project and the delivery process (by speaking to the resources involved in the delivery plan).

 
Who we are looking for:

• You have effectively driven success with previous projects and have a fantastic reputation that backs up what you have achieved over the years.
• Experience of delivering successful high value (£50m+) bids across Rail, Highways, Airports and Ports
• Full knowledge of the bid lifecycle from tracking of OJEU notices to PQQ, Tender and Post Tender Interviews
• Experience of coordinating and updating a knowledgebase system is essential. 
• Advanced MS Word skills & proficient in MS Office. 

About Murphy

• Charity is at the heart of Murphy values; you will receive 2 days leave per year to donate your time to a charity of your choosing. Many teams choose to support a charity together to positively impact our communities. 
• Access to Murphy Wellbeing: you will have access to a host of online tools, mental health trained colleagues, and if needs be external professional support because we understand that work and life offers challenges that sometimes need a little extra support.
• Murphy is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture, making Murphy a great place to work where we can all thrive. You can get involved in numerous events and even join our committee dedicated to continuously nurturing Murphy’s inclusive culture.

What you’ll get in return

• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, cycle to work scheme etc

As part of our commitment to being an inclusive employer we are proud to have signed up to #BantheBoxUK and reduce barriers to employment for people with criminal records.

If you think Murphy is the place to help you thrive in a great team dedicated to delivery and engineering excellence, and want to work in an inclusive team culture that rewards performance and drives personal development, apply today.