Tendering Manager

United Infrastructure Water Limited; Warrington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

United Infrastructure Water Limited seeks a senior commercial professional to support tender development and delivering robust commercial estimates. You will coordinate input from multiple disciplines, manage budgets, and lead risk and contract reviews to maintain competitiveness.

You will guide the estimating function, lead client pricing discussions, and line-manage the estimating and contracts team to ensure timely, accurate outcomes.

Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Law, or Business Studies with a professional qualification preferred.
• Substantial leadership experience in a similar role within T&D or civils is valued.
• Ability to interpret risks and figures when reviewing team output.

Responsibilities

• Manage tender budgets and cost codes and advise on budget requirements.
• Lead pricing reviews with inputs from multiple disciplines.
• Guide estimating to align pricing with commercial strategy.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Pricing reviews

Risk management

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Quantity Surveying degree

Professional qualification (preferred)

Tools

Contract reviews

Job description

Support regional and functional leads in the development of effective tender packages considering the delivery risks and opportunities. Coordinating the input from a number of disciplines to ensure the robustness of commercial estimates and tenders while remaining competitive.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Manage tender budgets / cost codes, reporting on costs and advising on budget requirements
• Lead pricing reviews, coordinating inputs from all necessary disciplines
• Guide estimating to ensure pricing is aligned with commercial strategy
• Coordinate contract reviews making qualifications appropriate for risk profile
• Lead risk reviews appreciating likely risks to be considered and prompting engagement from all disciplines
• Coordinate regional Commercial Manager engagement and ownership
• Lead bid clarification / qualification basis with client interface
• Lead commercial handovers to delivery team
• Oversee and facilitate supply-chain input
• Manage tender governance and review process
• Manage external support / consultants
• Line management of estimating and contracts team
• Client PoC for commercial/pricing negotiation

Person Specification

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Law, or Business Studies, along with appropriate professional qualification (preferred), although other relevant experience will be considered
• Substantial experience in a similar role with consolidated leadership/management experience ideally gained within Transmission and Distribution or civils sector although not essential
• Instinctive appreciation of risks and figures when reviewing and approving work product by team.
• Inspire team to deliver promptly and accurately to tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills, written, verbal, and presentation
• The ability to communicate complex principles effectively at all levels within the organization
• Ability to demonstrate teamwork, respect, integrity, innovation, and a client-driven approach
• Ability to collaborate across multi-disciplines at all levels of the business with a practical, hands-on approach
• Flexible to undertake varying work with changing priorities

Join us at United Infrastructure and be part of our mission to deliver innovative and sustainable solutions to the complex infrastructure needs of the UK.