Senior Bid Manager in Stevenage

About The Role

Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We're problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.

What will you be doing?

As our experienced Senior Bid Manager you'll lead complex, high-value bids across our Water Division. Working closely with the Growth Director, bid team, Regional Managing Directors, operational leads and commercial teams, you'll manage bids from qualification through to submission, clarification, presentation, handover and lessons learned.

This is a senior work-winning role focused on bid strategy, governance, quality, commercial coordination and proposal delivery across the UK water sector. You'll manage the Bid Coordinator and Bid Writer, supporting their development while improving bid quality, consistency and delivery discipline.

• Lead multiple live and pipeline tenders, prioritising activity across risk, value, resource, deadlines and win probability.
• Shape pursuit strategies, customer propositions, differentiators and evidence plans with opportunity owners, senior stakeholders and operational leads.
• Establish clear governance, compliance, review and reporting disciplines across multiple bids to maintain quality, consistency and delivery confidence.
• Coordinate technical, commercial, operational and supply chain input so submissions are competitive, deliverable and strategically aligned.
• Lead portfolio-level bid reviews, challenge assumptions and convert feedback into stronger content, clearer solutions and improved win themes.
• Line manage the Bid Writer and Bid Coordinator, setting priorities, coaching performance, allocating workload and developing capability across the bid function.

What you'll bring

• Lead complex, multi-disciplinary bids across water, utilities, infrastructure or comparable public-sector procurement environments.
• Apply strong bid governance, compliance, writing, editing, review and submission assurance.
• Manage multiple deadlines, contributors, workstreams and assurance cycles in fast-paced conditions.
• Bring commercial awareness, customer focus, stakeholder confidence and price-to-win understanding.
• Coach and support bid coordinators, writers and proposal colleagues.
• Use Microsoft Office, shared workspaces, CRM and bid management tools; APMP desirable.

This is a high-impact opportunity to join M Group Water at a pivotal point in its growth journey. The business is strengthening its work-winning capability to support a significant AMP8 and AMP9 pipeline, deeper key account growth, cross-Group collaboration and expansion into higher-value, digitally enabled water services. You'll play a central role in converting strategic opportunities into profitable, deliverable wins, while building the discipline, pace and quality of the bid function.

What's in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers:

• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care family cover
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme

About us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We're one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours:

• We're responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We're open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We're together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We're ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It's an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.