Bid Manager

Overview

As Bid Manager, you guide qualified opportunities from solution design through to award and handover, shaping content and winning proposals. You will lead bid writing, manage timelines, and mentor a junior bid team member, collaborating with finance and operations. The role sits at the heart of the sales cycle and offers hands-on content creation, pricing, and client-facing collaboration. A meaningful opportunity to influence winning strategies within a growing services business.

Pay / Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Hybrid working: 3 days per week in the office

Responsibilities

• Own qualified opportunities and develop costed, deliverable solutions
• Translate tender specs into detailed proposals with cross-functional input
• Create competitive pricing models and commercial proposals for sign-off
• Lead bid writing and proposal management for assigned opportunities
• Manage bid plans, timelines, and cross-functional input
• Maintain a library of reusable bid content (case studies, CVs, method statements)
• Oversee multiple bids at different pipeline stages under tight deadlines
• Support bid/no bid decisions and maintain CRM/pipeline records
• Manage portal-based tender activity and formal submissions
• Represent the business in client meetings during the bid process
• Support handover of awarded contracts into delivery
• Mentor junior bid team member
• Line management responsibility for a junior bid team member

Key requirements

• Proven track record as a Bid Manager with full bid lifecycle experience
• Strong independent bid writing skills
• Experience of solution design in a services or project-driven environment
• Strong commercial acumen including pricing, margins, and risk
• Experience managing multiple bids to tight deadlines
• Solid experience with formal tender and procurement processes and e-tendering platforms
• Strong project management and organisational skills
• Experience mentoring junior colleagues
• High IT literacy including Microsoft Office, CRM systems, and document collaboration tools

• excellent writing ability
• strong communication and stakeholder engagement
• team leadership and mentoring
• Microsoft Office
• CRM systems
• document collaboration tools

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