Senior Bid Manager

Newmark Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Pension scheme

26 days holiday

Life and Accident insurance

Dental Insurance

Season Ticket Loan

Job summary

Newmark, based in London, seeks a senior bid leader to coordinate and deliver high-quality responses to pitches, presentations and proposals, driving the full bid lifecycle from start to finish and coaching senior stakeholders to ensure winning outcomes.

This role requires coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, governance, and content development, with on-time submissions and occasional travel to national offices as needed.

Qualifications

• Exceptionally organised with meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams
• Strong writer with clear, persuasive content and impeccable grammar
• Excellent project management and timeline discipline
• Flexible, proactive, and resilient under pressure

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end bid process: qualification, strategy, approach, win themes, content planning, drafting and final submission
• Oversee tender portals: registrations, credentials, opportunity distribution, Q&A handling
• Establish bid governance: plans, kick-offs, reviews, approvals
• Coordinate multidisciplinary contributors to develop persuasive, accurate proposals
• Build and maintain a high-quality bid content library and drive continuous improvement
• Coach senior colleagues to elevate messaging and differentiation across submissions
• Work to deadlines with occasional travel to national offices as required

Job description

Newmark is experiencing a period of transformation and growth and, with significant investment behind us, plans to grow the EMEA business to more than £500m+ over the next three years. The Client Development team has a pivotal role in delivering growth across the business.

Alongside the Marketing Team, we work closely with Group, Sector and National heads to help them create and deliver effective BD & Marketing plans. The team focuses on the key areas of Client Solutioning, Client Targeting, Pitch and Tender Response Management, Client Partnerships and Cross Selling by bringing together teams to target new business, oversee and structure pitch and bid opportunities and manage client teams. This ensures we are investing in our long-term client relationships, securing new opportunities and are effectively managing an expansive Newmark referral network across EMEA, the US and the wider global business.

About The Role

Based in London and supporting teams across Newmark’s national offices, this senior, hands-on role leads the end-to-end coordination, creation and delivery of high-quality and compelling responses to pitches, presentations and proposals. You will drive the full bid lifecycle from start to finish, coaching and influencing senior stakeholders, ensuring on-time submission.

• Own the end-to-end pitch process: opportunity qualification, pitch strategy, approach and win themes, storyboarding, content planning, drafting and editing and finalisation for submission
• Oversee registered tender portals: monitor pipeline, ensure registrations and credentials are current, circulate opportunities to relevant teams, and coordinate clarifications and Q&A within deadlines
• Establish and run robust bid governance: create bid plans and schedules, lead kick-offs and reviews and secure timely approvals and sign-offs implementing Newmark’s ‘Pitch to Win’ approach
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary contributors (sector / service line experts, legal, finance, marketing) to develop persuasive, accurate, and brand-aligned proposals
• Build and maintain a high-quality bid content library (case studies, CVs, method statements, standard RFP responses) and drive continuous improvement through lessons learned
• Coach and quality-assure contributions from senior colleagues, elevating messaging, points of differentiation, and USPs across all submissions
• Work flexibly to meet client deadlines and priority timelines, with occasional travel to national offices as required

This is a senior opportunity for an experienced bid leader with a proven track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder proposals. A commitment to quality, excellence and a can-do approach are essential to success in this role.

About You

• Exceptionally organised with meticulous attention to detail and commitment to continuous process improvement
• Proven stakeholder leader who can influence without authority, manage expectations and bring together multi-disciplinary teams
• Confident bid strategist who can produce clear, persuasive content with impeccable spelling and grammar
• Strong project manager who can develop strict timelines and deliver to deadlines
• Proactive and solutions-focused in their approach and able to maintain momentum under pressure
• Collaborative and dependable and able to build trust and work effectively across functions and geographies
• Excellent communicator and presenter with the ability to distil complex content into compelling narratives and visuals
• Technically fluent with tender portals, CRM and collaboration tools
• High integrity and acts with discretion when handling sensitive firm or client information
• Flexible and adaptable, willing to flex hours around client deadlines and shifting priorities
• Ability to coach and mentor senior stakeholders and provide constructive feedback
• Innovative, lateral thinker who challenges the status quo to streamline processes and elevate submissions

Salary and Benefits

• Salary: competitive based on market, professional experience and qualifications
• Performance related staff profit share scheme
• 26 days’ holiday per year (full time amount), plus Bank Holidays and days at Christmas and New Year
• Pension scheme membership (after initial probationary period)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay after passing probation
• Private Medical Insurance
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Leasing
• Life and Accident insurance
• Critical Illness Cover (self-funded)
• Dental Insurance (self-funded)
• Access to Peppy for you and your partner
• 1 paid volunteering day per year to help give back to our local communities
• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
• Interest Free Rental Deposit Loan
• Employee assistance programme

Alongside our competitive compensation and benefits package we offer all our staff the ongoing opportunities to learn and develop, through in-house CPD sessions, further education support as well as internal and external training programmes. Newmark encourages pro-bono work and volunteering as well as regular social and sporting activities to engage with all your colleagues.