Bid Manager

Bid Manager / Bid Writer - Civils

Lichfield

£45,000 - £55,000 + Car Allowance circa £6K

As a Bid Manager / Bid Writer that can manage the full bid process from start to finish, you will be working with a leading Civils Contractor based in the office 4 days per week.

Currently recruiting a Bid Manager to lead the development of high-quality, winning tender submissions across a range of complex and high-value projects.

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys collaborating across business development, engineering, commercial, and delivery teams to secure new business opportunities.

As Bid Manager, you’ll take ownership of the full tender lifecycle — from opportunity identification and bid strategy through to submission and handover — ensuring every proposal is compelling, compliant, and commercially robust.

You will also play a key role in shaping and continuously improving the company’s bid function, processes, and overall win strategy, while leading and developing a dedicated Bid Team.

• Lead the end-to-end tendering process, ensuring timely, compliant, and high-quality submissions.
• Collaborate closely with Business Development teams to identify, track, and forecast upcoming tender opportunities.
• Support informed bid/no-bid decisions and develop clear win themes using market and client intelligence.
• Coordinate input from technical, commercial, and operational stakeholders to produce compelling tender submissions.
• Ensure technical solutions are robust, compliant, and aligned with industry best practice and lessons learned.
• Work alongside commercial teams to review contractual terms, identify risks, and support negotiations where appropriate.
• Support early project risk and opportunity identification to help ensure successful and profitable project delivery.
• Write, review, and enhance executive summaries, proposal documents, bases of offer, and tender responses to an exceptional standard.
• Present bid strategies and proposals confidently to internal stakeholders and clients.
• Maintain and continually improve a centralised bid content library for use across PQQs, RFIs, RFQs, and ITTs.
• Monitor bid activity and contribute towards achieving annual sales and growth targets.
• Collaborate with Project Controls teams to ensure proposals include realistic and appropriately resourced project programmes.
• Represent the business at client meetings and industry events, helping to strengthen relationships and identify future opportunities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the Bid Team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing culture.
• Manage and control bid budgets effectively.

Skills & Experience

• Previous experience in a Bid Manager, Proposals Manager, or Tender Management role.
• Proven track record leading high-value, multi-disciplinary tenders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple bids simultaneously and work to tight deadlines.
• Confident working collaboratively across technical, commercial, and operational teams.
• Strong commercial awareness and decision-making capability.
• Ability to build credibility and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Proactive, collaborative, and results-driven approach.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Experience using Adobe Acrobat.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professionalism at all times.
• Open to candidates from a range of industry backgrounds, with experience in engineering, nuclear, energy, infrastructure, or other technical/project-led sectors particularly advantageous.

If you do not hear back from us within 2 weeks, unfortunately you will not have progressed to the next stages. Due to a high volume of applications, it is not possible to contact everyone back.

If you require any assistance with your application, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.