Bid Manager

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is seeking a Bid Manager to join their Naval Nuclear Bid Team in Bristol, UK. This role involves leading high-value bids, coordinating proposal activities, and mentoring team members. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in bid management along with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. This is a full-time position offering hybrid work arrangements along with various employee benefits, including matched pension contributions and health services.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Background in Bid Management or strong process management experience.
• Ability to build and influence relationships to achieve shared goals.
• Proven experience developing plans and schedules that support project objectives.
• Confident, clear communicator able to manage diverse stakeholders with authority.
• Experience applying governance processes in support of project aims.

Responsibilities

• Lead and shape high-value bids within a growing team.
• Coordinate complex proposal activity while meeting customer timescales.
• Ensure governance requirements are met and documented.
• Manage accurate pipeline information to support sales forecasting.
• Mentor Bid Coordinators and support proposal development.

Skills

Bid Management

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Project Planning

Governance Processes

Job description

Bid Manager

Location: Bristol, GB, BS16 1EJ Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Bid Manager

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70827

Shape the Future of the UK’s Submarine Support Programme

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 Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre or Devonport Royal Dockyard sits.

The role

As a Bid Manager, you’ll join our Naval Nuclear Bid Team, playing a key role in supporting the UK’s submarine support pipeline and ensuring the continuous availability of the nation’s submarine fleet.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead and shape high‑value bids within a growing team. You’ll influence account growth, coordinate complex proposal activity, and guide stakeholders through the business‑winning lifecycle.

• Leading bids and proposals that support Business Growth targets, order intake and revenue delivery.
• Planning, coordinating and managing bid activity to meet customer timescales and requirements.
• Ensuring all governance requirements are met and documented in line with Babcock’s Business Winning processes.
• Managing and maintaining accurate pipeline information to support sales forecasting.
• Mentoring Bid Coordinators and supporting colleagues involved with gate reviews and proposal development.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 2 days in the office/onsite.

Essential experience of the Bid Manager

• Background in Bid Management or strong process management experience.
• Ability to build and influence relationships to achieve shared goals.
• Proven experience developing plans and schedules that support project objectives.
• Confident, clear communicator able to manage diverse stakeholders with authority.
• Experience applying governance processes in support of project aims.

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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

• 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 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. 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.

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