Senior Bid Manager

NG Bailey; East Boldon; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the Northeast of England seeks a Work Winning Manager / Senior Bid Manager to oversee bids contributing to a £25 million turnover. This role involves providing leadership and developing winning strategies while managing external relationships. Candidates should have an engineering background and prior bid management experience. The position offers a competitive salary with benefits such as private medical insurance and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Salary sacrifice car scheme

Pension with up to 8% employer contribution

Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days

Private Medical Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible benefits packages

Qualifications

• Experience in bid management with a background in engineering.
• Ability to develop and maintain network of external relationships.
• Proven track record of managing and delivering successful bids.

Responsibilities

• Lead the bid team ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Identify and convert work winning opportunities into contracts.
• Prepare bid winning strategies differentiating the company from competitors.

Skills

Leadership

Bid management

Engineering background

Project Management

Market intelligence

Job description

Work Winning Manager / Senior Bid Manager

Boldon - Northeast

Permanent

Competitive Salary + Benefits

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a role where you’ll be responsible for managing and delivering bids within an area of the business that turns over £25 million pa.

You will play a key role in driving successful outcomes by providing clear direction, motivation, and support to the bid team — ensuring alignment with business goals and full compliance with company policies and procedures.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include

• Provide leadership for bid team and keep up to date with industry movements and trends in order to demonstrate our credibility and influence current/prospective clients.
• Work with the Business Development Managers to identify and convert work winning opportunities into profitable contracts, in line with business strategy.
• Develop and maintain a network of external relationships, to raise the company profile, generate new business opportunities, understand the competition.
• Use expertise, market intelligence, customer knowledge and influence to prepare a bid winning strategy that differentiates NG Bailey from our competition.
• Secure support from work winning and operational leaders, involving internal/external stakeholders, to deliver the bid within budget.
• Undertake peer review with Senior Bid Manager or Pre-Contract Manager. Present prime cost values, with risks and opportunities at final settlement.
• Manage the production of allocated bid submissions.
• Work with Senior Bid Manager or Pre-Contract Manager to ensure Group and Business unit approval.

What we’re looking for

Someone who comes from a background in Engineering, ideally as a Project Manager or Engineer, who has already made the move into Bid Management and comes with experience in this area.

Benefits

• Salary sacrifice car scheme (Hybrid/Electric Vehicle)
• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.
• Personal development programme

Next Steps

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.