Bid Manager

weServed; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock in Bristol is seeking a Bid Manager to drive our Business Winning strategy from PQQ through to Contract Award. You will lead colour team reviews, perform competitor analysis, and coordinate bid programmes, working with opportunity owners and BD teams to craft winning submissions.

The role is full time, 37 hours per week, with hybrid working from the Bristol site. Security clearance (SC) is required; you will engage senior stakeholders and ensure compliance with customer guidelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in business winning, development, capture and solution development.
• Proven ability to build relationships and lead cross-functional teams.
• Able to engage senior stakeholders and run governance meetings.
• Experience leading major bids and win strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of the Business Winning strategy and colour team reviews.
• Perform competitor analysis to stay ahead in tender processes.
• Oversee win strategy reviews and boards to refine the approach.
• Manage bid programmes from PQQ to Contract Award, ensuring compliance.
• Collaborate with Opportunity Owners and BD teams to articulate win themes.

Skills

Business winning

Capture

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Bid management

Job description

Job Title: Bid Manager
Location: Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full Time / 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF75243

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 Bristol site.

The role

As a Bid Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. We're on the lookout for a passionate and ambitious Bid Manager to help us grow our business and elevate their career to new heights. If you're driven, innovative, and eager to make a real impact, we want to hear from you!

Your day-to-day tasks will include leading the execution of our Business Winning strategy, conducting colour team reviews to ensure top-notch proposals, performing in-depth competitor analysis to stay ahead of the game, and overseeing win strategy reviews and boards to refine our approach. You'll manage and be accountable for bid programmes from Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) to Contract Award, ensuring every step is executed flawlessly.

• Work with opportunity owners and business development teams to develop and provide customised business winning solutions and strategies.
• Lead and chair Governance and Approval activities associated with Business Winning.
• In collaboration with the Opportunity Owner, to identify and champion the win themes, and business winning strategy to assure the best opportunity is gained in securing the win. To ensure all Customer requirements are captured in the tender submission.
• Work with the Business Development teams to ensure that Capture Plans are handed over to the bid team at a sufficient maturity to support the clear articulation of the win strategy in the tender documentation.
• To ensure the bid submitted meets the agreed business format, presentational standards, content and the offer is compliant with company and customer guidelines.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week, and based in Bristol offering hybrid working

Essential experience of the Bid Manager

• Experience in business winning, development, capture and solution development with demonstrable success in previous roles.
• Demonstrable experience is building relationships and leading pan-business cross functional teams.
• Able to manage/lead Customer and Supplier engagement meetings at senior/board level with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Leading business winning activities on major bids

Qualifications for the Bid Manager

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 then we would like to hear from you.

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 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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 organization 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: 23/09/2026