Bid Coordinator

Babcock International Group; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, is seeking a Bid Coordinator to drive high-value defence bids. You’ll coordinate cross-functional teams in Business Growth, ensuring submissions meet the highest standards and align with governance processes.

This full-time, hybrid role involves 37 hours per week, travel within the UK, and the opportunity to develop specialist bid management expertise while contributing to national security and Defence programmes.

Qualifications

• Ideally you will have 1-2 years’ experience in bid coordination or proposal Bid support roles.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks, including structured bid methodologies, Gate Governance review processes, and Shipley colour team reviews.
• Good knowledge of UK MOD procurement processes, portals, and commercial contracting mechanisms.
• Experience operating within complex, large-scale engineering, defence, or comparable environments.
• Willingness to travel within the UK.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating bid management plans, schedules, and documentation for a major Defence programme.
• Supporting the organisation of bid meetings including procurement management, Kick-Offs, reviews, and stakeholder engagements.
• Managing procurement portals and ensuring accurate and timely submission of bid materials.
• Producing regular bid reports and tracking progress against milestones and deliverables.
• Facilitating Gate governance processes, including supporting Gates 0–6 approvals within the Babcock bid lifecycle.

Skills

Bid coordination

Governance processes

UK MOD procurement

UK travel

Job description

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72723

Shape billion-pound bids that support national defence

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Bid Coordinator at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon.

Job Title: Bid Coordinator

Location: Devonport, Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements

The role

As a Bid Coordinator, you’ll play a vital role in delivering high-value, strategically important bids—supporting programmes worth billions of pounds that underpin national security and defence capability. You’ll work at the heart of our Business Growth function, coordinating complex proposals, aligning cross-functional teams, and ensuring every submission meets the highest standards.

This is a dynamic, fast-paced role where you’ll collaborate with experienced bid professionals and stakeholders across Business Development, Engineering, Commercial, Finance, and operational teams. It’s a brilliant opportunity to build your career in Defence, aerospace and Engineering Bid Management while —developing specialist bid management expertise while making a tangible impact on Babcock’s growth and future success.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Coordinating bid management plans, schedules, and documentation for a major Defence programme.
• Supporting the organisation of bid meetings including procurement management, Kick-Offs, reviews, and stakeholder engagements.
• Managing procurement portals and ensuring accurate and timely submission of bid materials.
• Producing regular bid reports and tracking progress against milestones and deliverables.
• Facilitating Gate governance processes, including supporting Gates 0–6 approvals within the Babcock bid lifecycle.

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, based at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth and hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience of the Bid Coordinator

• Ideally you will have 1-2 years’ experience in bid coordination or proposal Bid support roles.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks, including structured bid methodologies, Gate Governance review processes, and Shipley colour team reviews.
• Good knowledge of UK MOD procurement processes, portals, and commercial contracting mechanisms.
• Experience operating within complex, large-scale engineering, defence, or comparable environments.
• Willingness to travel within the UK.

Qualifications for the Bid Coordinator

• Association of Proposal Management Professionals membership (Desirable)
• APMP Bid or Proposal Foundation Certification (Desirable)
• APMP Bid or Proposal Practitioner Certification (Advantageous)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 05/10/2026

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