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SalaryWe're looking for a Senior Bid Manager to join our Construction business based in the Midlands region. Within this role, you can enjoy progression opportunities, flexible hours and the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects of all sizes and complexities.
Location: Rushden, Northamptonshire
Contract: Permanent, full time – flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Bid Manager, you'll be working within the Pre Construction team, supporting them in building projects that support and develop the local communities.
Your day to day will include:
- Assemble a bid team with the relevant knowledge and skills to prepare a winning bid
- Follow the agreed bid management procedures and ensure they are implemented at each stage of the bid process
- Chair Bid Kick off meetings solution development and mid bid meetings with internal and external stakeholders
- Develop tender period programme, communicate actions to the team and monitor progress
- Attend feedback sessions with the client and coordinate tender queries and amendments.
You will have overall management of the bid, ensuring compliance with internal governance and developing a winning strategy prior to tender, of which is concise, and understood by the wider team. While working closely with the submissions team, you will offer high quality responses to the bid questions, as well as having a thorough understanding of the client's key drivers; through research and early engagement with the clients team and stakeholders.
Who are we looking for?
- Proven experience in bid management
- Bidding experience on education, healthcare, commercial and leisure projects
- Previously worked with a leading national or regional contractor
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier
