We have an exciting opportunity for a Bid Manager to join our Head Office team within the Pre-Contract and Tendering Department in Ruthin (with flexibility for partial remote working).
The Role
The Bid Manager will lead the preparation, coordination, and submission of high-quality bids and tenders for major civil engineering and infrastructure projects. This includes managing multi-disciplinary inputs, ensuring submissions meet client requirements and deadlines, and developing clear, compelling proposals that reflect the company’s technicalexpertise, innovation, and delivery capability. The role requires strong project management skills, a sound understanding of civil engineering construction methodologies, and the ability to coordinate estimating, design, planning, and commercial inputs to produce winning bids.
Key Responsibilities(not limited to)
- Manage the full bid lifecycle from expression of interest through to post-submission clarifications.
- Lead and manage all stages of technical tender submissions, ensuring compliant, coordinated and compelling bid responses.
- Develop tender programmes, integrating design, procurement, construction sequencing, and resourcing.
- Liaise with internal and external bid resources, ensuring delivery of multiple concurrent tenders to required deadlines and quality standards.
- Produce high-quality technical content, including methodologies, approach narratives, detailed delivery project programme, risk assessments and delivery strategies.
- Coordinate the full bid process, ensuring alignment between commercial, technical, planning and supply chain inputs.
- Manage inputs from specialist supply chain partners, such as design consultants, ecology specialists, temporary works, traffic management and others.
- Ensure all tender submissions are compliant, compelling, and professionally presented.
- Prepare and present tender submissions at client interviews and clarification meetings.
- Develop mass-haul and earthworks assessments (training can be provided).
- Ensure continuous improvement, supporting lessons-learned reviews and contributing to bid writing standards, templates and knowledge libraries.
- Degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent proven experience.
- Proven experience managing bids or tenders within the civil engineering or infrastructure sector.
- Strong organisational and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent bids.
- Excellent technical writing and document-control capability.
- Understanding of major forms of contract
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and coordinate technical, commercial, and planning disciplines.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to meet strict deadlines.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- Experienced professional (Chartered or working toward Chartership advantageous).
- Experience preparing bids for frameworks and design-and-build contracts.
- Proficiency in Primavera P6 and/or Microsoft Project for developing tender programmes. (Training available)
- Confident presenter with the ability to articulate methodology, programme rationale and delivery strategy.
- Proactive, driven and capable of working both independently and collaboratively.
Personal Attributes
- Proactive and methodical, with a strong drive for quality and continuous improvement.
- Confident communicator able to influence senior stakeholders and external partners.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with a collaborative, team-focused approach.
- Creative problem solver with a strategic mindset.
- Flexible and willing to travel as required to attend meetings, site visits, and presentations.
What We Offer
- Company contributing pension scheme (eligibility applies).
- Ongoing professional development and training.
- Car allowance or company vehicle (Role dependent).
Ty Glyn, Canol y Dre, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1QW
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