Bid Manager

Bid Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecsia is seeking a Group Bid Manager who can run complex bids end-to-end and craft winning content. The role involves planning responses, shaping win themes, coordinating with SMEs and ensuring compliant, commercially sound submissions.

You will also contribute content for the website and social media and manage a Group bid library. You will report to the Group Head of Bids and work across multiple business units.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years managing end-to-end bids, including complex opportunities with several workstreams.
• Proven track record of winning submissions through commercial and public sector procurement.
• Experience shaping qualification decisions, win strategy and solution development.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with ability to make technical detail clear and persuasive.
• Strong attention to detail and a good eye for design.
• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus working knowledge of Adobe InDesign.
• Good understanding of website, press and social media content.

Responsibilities

• Own each bid from qualification to handover, planning the response and shaping win themes.
• Coordinate with subject matter experts to gather necessary inputs.
• Ensure submissions are compliant, commercially sound and well written.
• Create content for the website, social media and thought leadership.
• Build and maintain a bid library for the Group.

Skills

Bid management

Bid writing

Stakeholder management

Public sector procurement

Attention to detail

MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint

InDesign

Content creation

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Adobe InDesign

Job description

Hybrid, with occasional days in central London | Full-time | Salary starting from £60k + 20% Bonus and Benefits

Are you a Bid Manager who's also a really good Bid Writer? Mecsia is looking for someone who can run complex bids from start to finish and write the kind of content that wins them.

About Mecsia

Mecsia is one of the UK's leading providers of technical inspection, maintenance and engineering services. Its model is "Local Service, National Reach". It now has around 1,900 people across seven business units, and its clients include commercial offices, healthcare sites and schools. In 2024 it was acquired by Synova, named PE House of the Year four times in the last seven years, which is backing further growth both organically and through acquisitions.

You'll report to the Group Head of Bids and lead high-value bids across the Group. You'll own each bid from qualification to handover. That means planning the response, shaping the win themes, getting what you need from subject matter experts and making sure every submission is compliant, commercially sound and well written.

You'll also write beyond bids. You'll produce content for the website, social media and thought leadership, and you'll build and look after a bid library the whole Group can use.

What You Will Bring as Group Bid Manager

• At least three years managing end-to-end bids, including complex opportunities with several workstreams
• A track record of winning submissions through commercial and public sector procurement
• Experience shaping qualification decisions, win strategy and solution development
• Excellent writing and editing skills, and the ability to make technical detail clear and persuasive
• Strong attention to detail and a good eye for design
• Advanced Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus working knowledge of Adobe InDesign
• A good understanding of website, press and social media content

Experience in hard FM, technical services or building services would be a real plus, as would APMP Foundation or equivalent.

Who you are

You're organised, resilient and comfortable juggling deadlines. You work well on your own, you hold yourself accountable, and you build good relationships with people at every level. You'll want to make a difference from day one.

There's some UK travel for Group events, workshops and onboarding.