Assistant Bid Manager - Derby

Balfour Beatty; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leader in infrastructure and engineering is seeking an Assistant Bid Manager to oversee the bid process, manage relationships with clients, and create compelling proposals. The role requires prior experience in the construction industry and a focus on compliance and innovation. You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, ensuring submissions align with best practices, while also supporting sustainability efforts. This position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Company car

37.5 hours work week

Company DC pension scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Learning opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Up to 2 days volunteering per year

Qualifications

• Experience managing bid services in construction and engineering.
• Understanding of framework procurement principles.
• Ability to maintain positive relationships under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the bid process.
• Manage bid documentation and governance papers.
• Engage with customers to understand requirements.

Skills

Bid management

Interpersonal communication

Innovation

Education

Membership of a relevant professional body (APMP/RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/MICE/MIStructE)

Tools

Bid writing tools

BIM software

Job description

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About the role

Balfour Beatty is recruiting an Assistant Bid Manager to play a key role in securing future work. In this exciting position, you will help lead, manage, and co-ordinate the full bid process producing high-quality, competitive proposals that align with the Balfour Beatty Management System.

You'll work closely with customers, partners, internal stakeholders, and our work winning team to build strong, positive relationships and ensure our submissions stand out for all the right reasons.

If you're motivated, detail-driven, and ready to make an impact in a fast-paced environment, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

• Build strong relationships with customers to understand their requirements
• Lead and coordinate bid presentations and attend key customer/industry events
• Manage bid processes, including governance papers, bid plans, programmes and documentation
• Contribute to technical, legal and financial content, and coordinate inputs from the supply chain
• Maintain document control, clarification logs and accurate meeting records
• Support supply chain and consultant selection where required
• Gather customer intelligence and conduct competitor SWOT analysis
• Develop innovative bid solutions using BIM and submission technology
• Ensure full compliance with tender requirements and promote best practice
• Engage with internal sponsors and steering groups, preparing Gate papers as needed
• Support tender settlement approvals and handover to operations
• Help maintain the Project Risk Register
• Demonstrate Balfour Beatty Values and maintain a focus on Zero Harm
• Support the delivery of Balfour Beatty's Sustainability activities

Who we're looking for

• Previous experience of managing bid services within the construction and engineering industry is highly desirable.
• Some understanding of the principles of framework procurement and experience within the most current forms of procurement is required.
• Membership of a relevant professional body, such as APMP/RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/MICE/MIStructE is desirable.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure. Customer centric in approach, with the ability to recognise potential opportunities in invitations to tender.
• A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer and the relevant business. Good IT, maths and bid writing ability is a requirement.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

As a business Balfour Beatty are committed to supporting our staff in attaining and maintaining their chosen professional accreditation., along with reimbursing annual Professional membership fees.

• Competitive Salary
• 37.5 hours Monday to Friday
• Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs
• Company car
• Hybrid working
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications
• Employee assistance programme
• Up to 2 days volunteering per year

About us

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beatty's Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the world's most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at value everyone.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found on our website.