Senior Proposals Manager

Willmott Dixon; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pension scheme

Private medical

Life assurance

Incentive bonus

Car scheme

MEA (motoring expenditure allowance)

Job summary

Willmott Dixon in Birmingham is recruiting a Senior Proposals Manager to lead the bids and proposals function across multiple sectors. The role blends remote and office-based work, requiring strong leadership of cross-functional teams to deliver compelling, client-focused submissions.

You will oversee proposal planning, coordinate inputs from preconstruction and subject-matter experts, and drive high-quality content that wins projects.

Qualifications

• Experience leading bids and proposals within the construction industry.
• Ability to manage multiple teams and coordinate inputs to deliver high-quality submissions.
• Understanding of different proposal processes and private-sector bid dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Support and oversee the proposals process, coordinating people to produce and win bids.
• Produce high-quality qualitative submissions on time and within budget.
• Lead contributor input and review sessions for proposal content.
• Collaborate with bid team and subject matter experts to define plans and win strategies.
• Coordinate team inputs and manage production of proposal deliverables and PQQ/tender documentation.
• Introduce creative ideas and lessons learned into proposals and implement improvements.
• Contribute to customer presentations to ensure focus on customer needs and stakeholders.
• Check progress and support team members to meet deadlines.

Skills

Proposals management

Bid management

Project coordination

Stakeholder collaboration

Line management

Excellent communication

Education

Chartered CIM qualification

APMP membership

APMP accreditation

Job description

We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Proposals Manager to join our Midlands construction business, based in Birmingham. This will be a hybrid role with a mix of remote and office-based working. Being an experienced Senior Proposals Manager, you will oversee our proposals and ensure the team is preparing high-quality bids that delight our customers.

We are committed to really understanding our customer’s needs, then developing sustainable solutions that are clearly articulated in customer-focussed, world-class submissions. You will partner with preconstruction managers, bid managers and subject matter experts to create winning strategies for our varied bids and proposals across a range of sectors, including Education, Leisure, Commercial, Healthcare, Defence, and Blue Light.

The team collaborates to produce creative, well thought out content, and you will be able to create “the golden thread” and craft well written, engaging content to “wow” our customers and ultimately win projects. You will likely be comfortable representing our business and presenting your proposals to our customer when its needed.

Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Support and oversee the proposals process in all aspects of the submission including identifying and assembling the people needed to produce and win the bid.
• Produce high-quality qualitative submissions on time and within budget.
• Effectively collaborate, coordinate and lead proposal team contributor’s input.
• Work collaboratively with bid team and subject matter experts to identify and formulate proposal plan, schedule, and win strategies.
• Coordinate team inputs and lead answer review sessions.
• Manage the production of accurate, well-presented documentation for PQQ’s and tenders.
• Support the resolution of proposal development issues while overseeing production of proposal deliverables.
• Provide and implement creative ideas and initiatives into proposals, actioning any lessons learned.
• Assess technical and complex requirements, control, and shape the proposals.
• Contribute to the preparation of customer presentations to ensure they are customer and people focussed.
• Check progress and support team members.

Essential and Desirable Criteria

• Proven experience and success in a proposals or bid management role within the construction industry.
• Exceptional project management skills and ability to work with a large number of teams at once.
• Understanding of different proposals processes.
• Experience leading or supporting with proposals for private-sector customers or developers in the construction industry.
• Previous line management duties with experience of coaching, mentoring, or developing team members
• Have or working towards a Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) qualification
• APMP membership and accreditation.

Additional Information

Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working.

We are a disability confident employer.

• an enhanced pension scheme
• full private medical
• life assurance
• incentive bonus
• a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel.
• motoring expenditure allowance (MEA)
• new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.

About Us

With over 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon’s purpose is beyond profit; delivering brilliant buildings, transforming lives, strengthening communities and enhancing the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and solid privately owned business where our people can thrive.

Willmott Dixon was recognised by The Sunday Times as one of the Top 10 "Big" Companies to Work For in 2025, named among the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality in 2024, and ranked in the Top Five of Europe’s 1,000 best workplaces by the Financial Times in 2025. Willmott Dixon is also the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.