Bid Manager: Lead a Centralized Proposals Engine for Growth

Bennettandbennett; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

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Job summary

Bennett + Bennett Corporate Services is seeking an experienced Bid Manager to establish and lead a Brisbane-based bid management function, supporting tendering across regions and driving governance and quality across submissions.

You will coordinate content, manage submission programs and ensure compliance, while partnering with regional leaders and SMEs to continuously improve proposal capability.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing complex tenders and proposals from planning through to submission.
• Exceptional project management and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Strong written communication, editing and document production capabilities.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent tenders and proposals, coordinating diverse stakeholders to meet critical deadlines.
• High attention to detail with a focus on quality, compliance and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the end-to-end proposal process for high-value and strategically significant opportunities.
• Manage the tender register, bid pipeline and submission calendar across the business.
• Facilitate bid planning, go/no go discussions, review milestones, approvals and submission requirements.
• Coordinate contributors across multiple regions and disciplines to ensure timely delivery of content and submissions.
• Draft, edit and refine executive summaries, value propositions, non-technical responses and other proposal content.
• Ensure compliance with tender requirements, submission formats, quality reviews and document control processes.
• Maintain proposal templates, case studies, CVs and the bid content library.
• Report on tender activity, win rates, pipeline performance and lessons learned to support continuous improvement.
• Coordinate client debriefs and win/loss reviews to strengthen future submissions.
• Drive the ongoing development of a scalable and best-practice bid management framework across the Group.

Skills

Tender management

Project coordination

Written communication

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Relationship building

Time management

Job description

Bennett + Bennett Corporate Services is seeking an experienced Bid Manager to establish and lead a Brisbane-based bid management function, supporting tendering across regions and driving governance and quality across submissions.

You will coordinate content, manage submission programs and ensure compliance, while partnering with regional leaders and SMEs to continuously improve proposal capability.