Senior Proposal Manager

-; Warrington; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An engineering and maintenance provider based in Warrington is seeking a Proposal Lead to manage and deliver proposals for the nuclear industry. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in proposal management, excellent communication skills, and a relevant educational background. This role involves working with multi-discipline teams to ensure high-quality, timely submissions while maintaining compliance with governance requirements. The position is permanent and full-time.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational delivery role in similar industries.
• Experience in complex proposals and multi-discipline teamwork.
• Strong written and presentation communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as Proposal Lead, managing proposal activities.
• Review client documentation and attend site visits.
• Manage development of win plan and commercial strategy.

Skills

Proposal management

Commercial strategy

Team collaboration

Technical communication

Cost control

Education

HNC / HND / Degree level

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

Take full accountability for assigned major proposals to include Frameworks in the Nuclear Industry, leading, planning, managing and delivering winning proposals to support Bilfinger UK business strategies. Proposals developed shall: reflect agreed strategy; be specific and relevant to the client / enquiry; have high impact, engaging and professional presentation; be subject to thorough and relevant internal challenge; facilitate successful delivery of the opportunity if we are awarded; meet all Bilfinger governance requirements.

Support Bid No Bid Process

Support bid NO bid process with preliminary reviews of enquiries, participate in / lead meetings, follow up actions to facilitate making appropriate bid decisions.

Main Responsibilities

(Note specific jobs may have focus of type of proposal, e.g. project or term services, but personnel shall be flexible to meeting business needs. Role likely to require management of multiple proposals in parallel.)

• Act as Proposal Lead: accountable for all activities and to manage and drive all others to create a winning proposal
• Review all client documentation and allocate owner for review
• Attend site visits
• Manage all clarifications and raise / review where appropriate
• Liaise with client and record all client correspondence
• Review and summarise opportunity requirements (e.g. scope of work, timing, contract and commercial model)
• Manage development of win plan
• Review commercial requirements and manage commercial strategy development
• Develop and maintain action plan and manage input from others to ensure delivered on time to required quality
• Work with Estimating to define estimating strategy and reviews of estimate and pricing to confirm strategy met and appropriate due diligence applied
• Lead development of project time schedules
• Lead risk review process
• Lead development of submission documentation in line with strategy (technical, execution, commercial, contractual, executive summary, presentations), be responsible for specific documentation as appropriate to skills and experience. Review documents to ensure they are relevant, specific, on strategy and accurate
• Work with Pre-Contract Commercial to develop appropriate set of contractual comments
• Engage with Operations and other business areas as needed for support, input and validation
• Manage the review and approval requirements in accordance with Bilfinger governance
• Collaborate with Sales / Business Development (BD) for the proposal and towards the client
• Follow up submission to maintain engagement with the client, address clarifications and secure the work
• Handover and close out in accordance with governance requirements
• Internally report, provide feedback and promptly raise issue
• Maintain CRM (Salesforce) for assigned proposals in coordination with Sales / BD
• Take accountability for delivery of prequalification exercise
• Lead and manage the prequalification exercise
• Carry out independent reviews / four eye checks, lead and / or participate in review meetings
• Provide input, produce deliverables and support
• Network internally and externally to support delivery of core job function
• Contribute to proposal library
• Support management of expenditure vs proposals budget
• Work in compliance with Bilfinger policies and procedures
• Work in accordance with a "one Bilfinger team" ethos
• Support operational delivery as required and agreed
• Support Sales / BD sales activities as required and agreed
• Work flexibility to support all proposal department activities as required and agreed

Experience & Qualifications

HNC / HND / Degree level preferred. Project management, commercial, engineering / technical and other similar qualifications beneficial.

• Relevant experience in an operational deliver role in similar industries, scopes and scales of work (e.g. Project Manager, Site Manager, Contract Manager)
• Experience in complex proposals:
  • Working with multi-discipline team to help create
  • Challenging that team to give a specific, relevant, high quality submission on time
• Relevant technical knowledge and experience
• Experience of estimating, cost control or similar (creating, reviewing)
• Experienced in creating / presenting documents for high impact communication
• Strong communication skills, both presentations and written proposals

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.

Bilfinger UK Limited

Business Development & Sales

Permanent

Professional

Bilfinger Office