Senior Proposals Manager

Consortium; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pension

Private medical

Incentive bonus

Car scheme

MEA allowance

Job summary

Willmott Dixon is seeking a Senior Proposals Manager in Birmingham to lead our proposals for multiple sectors. This hybrid role blends remote working with office-based collaboration in our Midlands team.

You will oversee proposal teams, shape winning strategies, and ensure high-quality bids that delight customers across Education, Leisure, Commercial, Healthcare, Defence and Blue Light sectors. Flexible and inclusive employer with strong sustainability focus.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in proposals or bid management within construction.
• Exceptional project management skills and ability to coordinate many teams.
• Experience leading or supporting with proposals for private-sector customers or developers in construction.
• Line management duties with coaching or mentoring experience.

Responsibilities

• Support and oversee the proposals process in all aspects of the submission, assembling the people needed to produce and win the bid.
• Produce high-quality qualitative submissions on time and within budget.
• Coordinate and lead proposal team contributors’ input.
• Identify and formulate proposal plan, schedule and win strategies with bid teams and SMEs.
• Coordinate team inputs and lead answer review sessions.
• Manage production of accurate, well-presented documentation for PQQs and tenders.
• Resolve proposal development issues while overseeing production of deliverables.
• Provide and implement creative ideas and instructions into proposals and capture lessons learned.
• Assess technical and complex requirements, control and shape proposals.
• Contribute to preparation of customer presentations, ensuring customer focus.
• Check progress and support team members.

Skills

Proposals management

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder coordination

Education

CIM qualification

APMP accreditation

Job description

Senior Proposals Manager role based in Birmingham

Hybrid work model with both remote and office-based working

Oversee proposals and ensure high-quality bids in construction sectors

Responsibilities include managing proposal teams and coordinating inputs

Essential experience in proposals or bid management within construction

Additional benefits include an enhanced pension scheme, private medical, and incentive bonuses

Willmott Dixon is committed to diversity and sustainable development

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.

In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, full private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a 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.

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