A Bid Manager is needed by a busy Electronics company to play a key role in supporting the company's growth ambitions by driving innovation, establishing processes, and recommending improvements across the bid and project lifecycle. Operating across four UK sites you will be responsible for delivering bid responses for a diverse range of products and solutions ensuring a consistent, efficient approach to bid management through to project transition.
Responsibilities
- Manage incoming bids and coordinate responses across the business.
- Support the external sales team in developing and progressing opportunities.
- Oversee and manage costing activities to ensure accuracy and competitiveness.
- Coordinate bid-related inputs across Operations, Quality, Engineering, Commercial, and Purchasing teams.
- Lead the bid handover process into Project Management, ensuring smooth transition and clarity.
- Manage key stakeholders by reporting on updates to major tenders and providing updates to executive team.
- Identify risks and ensure the appropriate mitigation is captured together with the commercial team and evaluate bid win probability.
- Work closely with the sales team to manage and maintain a healthy opportunity pipeline.
- Collaborate with Finance to support margin optimisation and commercial performance.
- Contribute to process definition, continuous improvement, and transformation initiatives.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across bid and commercial processes.
- Develop and implement scalable solutions to support business growth and consistency across multiple sites.
Key Experience
- The ideal candidate will have proven Bid and tender writing experience especially across public sector engineering frameworks.
- You will have experience of managing the full bid process and be proficient with ERP systems (ideally Epicor).
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Experience of managing a small team is preferred as you will have 2-3 direct reports.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential as are strong organisational and filing/document control skills and a high level of proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and familiarity with visual project management and collaboration tools.
- Experience of working in engineering or manufacturing is needed with a strong preference for Electronics experience.
This is a hybrid role based mainly at home but with 2 days a week at the company's Castleford or Cambridge sites depending on your location.
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