Proposals Manager

M Group Highways; Beaconsfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a Proposals Manager to lead strategic bids and collaborate with a dynamic team. This role offers the chance to work on significant projects that shape infrastructure across the UK. You'll be at the forefront of crafting compelling proposals while ensuring quality and timely submissions. With a focus on personal growth and development, this position provides a supportive environment that values safety and client-centric solutions. Join a company committed to building a better future and making a difference in the communities we serve.

Benefits

Matched pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Company car and fuel card

28 days annual leave

Holiday purchase scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years in multi-million-pound construction submissions.
• Strong writing and editing skills for persuasive text.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate strategic bids and manage bid teams.
• Deliver prequalification and bid submissions.

Skills

Microsoft Word

Work winning procedures

Writing and editing skills

Research capability

Project Management

Organizational skills

Education

Project/Programme Management qualification

Job description

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Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.

We don’t just build roads and bridges- we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.

You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

You'll be accountable for the coordination of strategic bids (particularly larger TMC and significant Project Sector bids), including bid programme, quality submission and priced submission.

Whilst carrying out hands on bid writing duties and ownership of questions from storyboard through to final submission.

Collaborate with and influence the bid team to establish common and specific win themes, differentiators and effective tender strategies.

You'll work alongside the Bid Director to manage bid teams and inputs from key stakeholders, typically engaging with business development, estimating, writing, commercial and operational teams.

Collaborate with bid core team to develop detailed bid programme, with critical path and owners identified, ensuring programme is tracked and monitored on a weekly basis.

We'll ask you to co-ordinate and plan all client presentations and negotiation preparation required as part of the bid submission.

You'll be delivering prequalification and bid submissions, workshops and bid writing activities.

You'll be the direct lead of a team of writers, providing coaching, development and guidance.

Can you review across sectors to maximise cross-sector and cross-bid learning?

What You’ll Bring

• Do you have excellent IT skills, particularly significant experience in using Microsoft Word?
• Thorough knowledge of work winning procedures and processes including reviews
• At least 5 years working on multi-million-pound construction submissions
• Excellent writing and editing skills, demonstrating ability to form persuasive text in a concise format
• Strong research capability and ability to summarise extensive information in saliant points
• Project/Programme Management qualification desirable or demonstrable experience of managing significant projects/programmes with multidisciplinary teams.
• Exceptional organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
  
  

In addition, this role offers

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Personal Accident Cover
  
  

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
  
  

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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