Rail Bid Manager — Strategy, Costing & Proposals

Telent Technology Services Ltd; Warwick; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Company pension

Family-friendly policies

Occupational health support

Telent Reward discounts

Job summary

Telent is seeking an experienced Bid Manager to lead end-to-end bids within rail, telecommunications, utilities, or similar complex sectors. You will coordinate SMEs and commercial teams, ensure compliant governance and high-quality submissions.

Based at our Warwick HQ, this hybrid role expects 1–2 days on site monthly and offers a supportive, collaborative environment with clear career development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong project management and organisational skills.
• Financially astute with ability to create and interpret financial reports and models.
• Demonstrable experience of winning as part of a high-performing bid team.
• Proven experience of leading and delivering high and medium-value bids, ideally in a services or solutions environment.
• Strong understanding of bid governance processes, approvals and review frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence, challenge and coordinate stakeholders across engineering, delivery, finance and commercial functions.
• A proven ability to write and review tender responses to a winning standard.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Sales team, Subject Matter Experts and Technical and Commercial leads within Telent to develop compelling written and financial responses.
• Deliver efficient end-to-end management and production of timely, high-quality and ultimately successful bids and proposals in keeping with Telent's bid procedures.
• Lead and develop bid-winning strategies in partnership with opportunity owners and business heads.
• Produce material from Go/No Go stage through to deal review, bid submission and win/loss reviews.
• Lead and challenge internal stakeholders to ensure bid inputs are delivered on time and to the required quality standards.
• Provide post-bid submission support including preparation of bid presentations.
• Support workload planning, bid forecasting, cost tracking, reporting and continual improvement activities.

Job description

Telent is seeking an experienced Bid Manager to lead end-to-end bids within rail, telecommunications, utilities, or similar complex sectors. You will coordinate SMEs and commercial teams, ensure compliant governance and high-quality submissions.

Based at our Warwick HQ, this hybrid role expects 1–2 days on site monthly and offers a supportive, collaborative environment with clear career development opportunities.