Bid Manager Planned

Role: Bid Manager

Location: Home based with access to regional offices

Salary: up to £85k plus excellent package

Our client is a leading Social Housing contractor with four complementary businesses, dedicated to creating a connected, sustainable future through planned maintenance, gas, retrofit, and refurbishment.

Mission: Partner and employer of choice for designing, building, maintaining, and connecting communities.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage and complete quality bid submissions for projects ranging from £500k to £250m.
• Read, understand and extract key bid requirements; communicate with stakeholders via Tracking Sheets and planning/review meetings.
• Identify and communicate evaluation criteria and relevance to question specific scores.
• Plan, write and coordinate submission responses ensuring client and job‑specific answers.
• Develop internal and external relationships throughout the bid process.
• Maintain current information on company best practice from Operational and Service teams.
• Ensure timely delivery of required information from operational and service teams.
• Maintain high level of market intelligence, legislative requirements, and best practice; share with team and update business development systems.
• Identify past experience with relevant clients; source information for new clients via Business Development Managers or internet.
• Maintain accurate records of tender expected dates and liaise with Estimating for resource allocation.
• Identify opportunities to enhance and improve the bid process.
• Communicate company USPs and competitive advantages to be incorporated in bids.
• Liaise with Estimators on price/quality synergy and timing of submission.
• Review bids before submission to check relevance, quality and accuracy.
• Manage site visit or interview requirements, appointing a ‘Champion’ to lead the process.
• Compile, update and share a library of submission information.
• Follow up with clients to secure accurate information.
• Maintain records of win/loss rates, source feedback, and create action plans for improvement; update corporate systems and databases.

Qualifications

• Educated to A Level standard.
• Computer literate in MS Office.
• Proven track record of bid management throughout the full bid lifecycle.
• High attention to detail; up to date construction and industry knowledge and understanding.
• Social Housing knowledge and experience.
• Confident and enthusiastic.
• Technical writing skills and retrofit knowledge.

Howells are an Equal Opportunities employer. All applications will be dealt with in the strictest confidence.

Howells acts as an Employment Business for the supply of temporary workers and an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.

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