Senior Bid Manager

United Infrastructure Group; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

United Infrastructure Group is seeking a Senior Bid Manager in Warrington to lead high-value infrastructure bids from qualification through submission and handover. You will craft win strategies, coordinate multi-disciplinary teams and ensure compliant, compelling tender responses.

The role requires extensive bid management experience within infrastructure, strong communication skills and an ability to manage multiple bids to tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in bid management or work winning within infrastructure or engineering.
• Proven track record leading complex, high-value tenders.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Lead bids from qualification to submission and handover.
• Develop bid strategies, win themes and bid plans.
• Run kick-off meetings, strategy workshops and reviews.
• Coordinate cross-functional commercial, technical and operational teams.
• Produce high-quality tender responses meeting client criteria.
• Manage bid programmes, risks and deadlines.
• Support bid/no-bid decisions with Directors and senior stakeholders.
• Capture lessons learned to improve future bids.

Skills

Bid management

Work winning

Pre-construction

Infrastructure

Tendering

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

## Senior Bid ManagerApply: Warrington - Clearwater 3: Full time: Posted Today: JR101775United Infrastructure is looking for an experienced Senior Bid Manager to lead complex, high-value bids across major infrastructure opportunities.Working closely with senior leadership, commercial, engineering and operational teams, you will manage the full bid lifecycle, developing clear win strategies and delivering compelling, compliant submissions.**Key Responsibilities*** Lead bids from initial qualification through to submission, interview and project handover.* Develop bid strategies, win themes, value propositions and bid plans.* Lead kick-off meetings, strategy workshops and senior bid reviews.* Coordinate multidisciplinary commercial, technical and operational teams.* Produce and review high-quality, persuasive tender responses.* Ensure submissions meet client requirements, evaluation criteria and governance standards.* Manage bid programmes, actions, risks and key deadlines.* Work with Directors and senior stakeholders to support bid/no-bid decisions and key approvals.* Capture lessons learned and continuously improve work-winning performance.* Support and mentor Bid Managers, Bid Writers and Coordinators where required.**About You**You will ideally have:* Significant experience in bid management, work winning or pre-construction within infrastructure, construction, utilities or engineering.* A proven track record of leading complex, high-value tenders.* Excellent written communication and presentation skills.* Strong commercial awareness and strategic thinking.* Confidence working with Directors, clients and senior stakeholders.* Excellent planning, organisation and stakeholder management skills.* The ability to manage multiple bids and competing deadlinesJoin us at United Infrastructure and be part of our mission to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions to the complex infrastructure needs of the UK.