Title: Bid Manager
Location: Warrington
As a Bid Manager within GTDI, you will play a key role in securing important opportunities across our digital infrastructure portfolio and our growing markets. As we expand into areas such as EV charging, renewable energy, and defence/secure estates, we welcome candidates with proven bid management experience in any relevant sector.
You’ll work within Galliford Try’s bid governance framework, helping shape clear, deliverable solutions and producing high ‑ quality submissions that demonstrate our capabilities.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Lead and manage key project and framework bids
- Take ownership of opportunity ‑ specific Bid Teams
- Be a main point of contact for colleagues and clients
- Set and guide bid strategy, win themes, programmes, and deliverables
- Lead tender settlement and client engagement activity
- Review bid documents (PQQ/SSQ/ITT) and bring together the right team
- Coordinate inputs across technical, commercial, delivery, legal, and supply chain functions
- Support risk identification, mitigation, and alternative approaches
- Contribute to solution development and delivery strategies
- Produce clear, compelling, and inclusive bid submissions
- Support bid/no ‑ bid decisions and governance processes
- Capture lessons learned and help drive continuous improvement
About You:
- Experience managing bids, tenders, or proposals
- Strong understanding of structured procurement processes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to turn technical and commercial content into persuasive responses
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise
- Commercial awareness and understanding of risk
Experience in one or more of the following areas is welcome:
- EV charging infrastructure
- Renewable or energy solutions
- Defence, secure estates, or regulated environments
- NEC, frameworks, or public sector procurement
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.
Benefits:
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
- A wide range of corporate discounts
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Competitive family leave policy
- Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
- Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees, and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
- Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
About us:
Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction groups with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.
Galliford Try is a leading UK Construction group. The business is split into four distinct divisions, Infrastructure, Building, Environment and Specialist Services, covering a range of specialist work in water, highways, telecoms, security, commercial, custodial, education, health, interiors, and leisure, across both public and private sectors. Listed on the London Stock Exchange and a member of the FTSE 250. Our vision is to be leaders in the construction of a sustainable future.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our business please contact Skyemarie Bree – skyemarie.bree@gallifordtry.co.uk
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long‑term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.
Job Info
- Job Identification 2782
- Job Category Bid Management
- Posting Date 05/05/2026, 09:39 AM
- Apply Before 06/29/2026, 11:00 PM
- Job Schedule Full time
- Job Shift Day
- Locations 930 Millennium Business Park, Cheshire, WA3 7QN, GB 401 Faraday Street, Cheshire, WA3 6GA, GB
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