Bid Coordinator

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; West Devon; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Professional Fees coverage

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Babcock invites applications for a Bid Coordinator role based in Bristol or Plymouth with hybrid working (2 days in the office, 3 at home). You will coordinate responses to growth opportunities, supporting bid managers and business development throughout the win lifecycle.

Duties include producing proposals (EOIs, PQQs, ITTs, unsolicited bids), developing bid capture plans, managing tender documentation, schedules and subcontract admin, plus diary and minutes administration for the winning teams.

Qualifications

• Degree qualification in Business, Engineering or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; copy editing skills.
• Highly organised with ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate responses to growth opportunities across bids.
• Support bid managers through win lifecycle.
• Produce proposals including EOIs, PQQs, ITTs, unsolicited proposals.
• Manage tender documentation, schedules and resources.
• Provide administration support to business winning teams, manage sub-contract requirements.

Skills

Strong communication

Numerate

Organisational skills

Copy editing

Adaptable

Education

Degree in Business or Engineering

Professional qualifications (benefit)

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Bid Coordinator
Location: Bristol or Plymouth + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full Time / 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF75215

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Bid Coordinator at either our Bristol or Plymouth sites.

The role

As a Bid Coordinator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We are looking for ambitious, energetic, and detail-driven people who are brave and able to find a way to deliver – to test, learn, and adapt and raise the bar. Our customers are at the centre of all we do, so we are looking for people who can help us and our customers work together to grow our business.

Day-to-day, you’ll Co-ordinate responses to growth opportunities, supporting functional leads, Business Development, Project and Bid Managers through the business winning lifecycle.

• Production of Proposals including Expressions of Interest, Prequalification Questionnaires, Invitations to Tender and Unsolicited Proposals.
• Support the development of bid capture plans.
• Tender Requirements Management including managing the day-to-day collation of proposal documentation, schedule adherence and resource management.
• Administration support to business winning teams, including meeting diaries, minutes, register updates and administration, management of sub-contract requirements for business winning activities.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Bid Coordinator

• Good general level of education, numerate and able to communicate well at all levels, both verbally and through formal written correspondence.
• High level of organisational / administrative skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including copy editing, grammar, style, spelling and punctuation, and accurate proof reading skills.
• Flexible and open to changing priorities, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and within compressed timeframes.

Qualifications for the Bid Coordinator

• Ideally you will be degree qualified (or equivalent) in Business, Engineering or similar.
• If you have professional qualifications that make you stand out or bring something new to the role then tell us what they are and the benefit it will bring to your performance and the business.

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 atUnited Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional FeesReservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.There is an annual Window to request this benefit
• '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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.