Bid Manager in Warrington

Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Bid Manager and you’ll deliver complex work that really matters to our business, and the world around you.

What you'll be doing:

• Formulate and agree bid strategy with senior management to secure profitable orders.
• Form relationships with the customer or their representatives to develop a clear understanding of their requirements.
• Responsible for the establishment, management and maintenance of the approved bid budget.
• Oversee and lead the preparation, coordination and delivery of presentations to customers as required.
• Attendance at key customer meetings and industry events.
• Oversee the establishment, production and implementation of bid management processes, including:

• Compile PPC papers and tender settlement documentation.
• Bid management plans.
• Bid programmes.
• Decisions on major supply chain partners.
• Liaison with supply chain members to formulate aspects of the bid offer.
• Written technical, legal and financial contributions to bids.
• Document control and register of clarification responses.
• Record proceedings of meetings.
• Decision on consultant selection and scopes of services.
• Carry out customer intelligence gathering.
• Develop technological solutions for the bid via BIM and submissions technology.
• Carry out competitor SWOT analysis.
• Have full knowledge of the tender requirements ensuring compliance in all respects of bid deliverables.
• Be aware of company best practice and innovation within bids across the business stream.
• Liaise with co-sponsors and internal bid steering committee for large and multiple bids.
• Lead the presentation of Tender Settlement meetings for large and multiple bids and obtain approvals.
• Lead the handover of secured business.
• Lead the establishment and maintenance of a Project Risk Register.
• Seek to understand, lead the development of and implement the appropriate digital toolsets to execute cost take-off and other estimating activities.

Who we're looking for:

• Previous experience of managing bid services within the construction and engineering industry is highly desirable.
• Some understanding of the principles of framework procurement and experience within the most current forms of procurement is required.
• Membership of a relevant professional body, such as RICS/CIOB/RIBA/ICE/MICE/MIStructE is desirable, and a valid CSCS card is required.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills are required, coupled with an ability to form effective relationships with partners under time pressure.
• Customer centric in approach, with the ability to recognise potential opportunities in invitations to tender.
• A desire to continuously pursue innovation and development, with a focus on the customer and the relevant business.
• Good IT, maths and bid writing ability is a requirement.
• Working knowledge of best practice solutions and optimisation of innovative ideas and an understanding of the principles of Lean Construction and 5D cost planning is desirable.
• An understanding of BIM and how to read and assemble BIM models and produce appropriate reports from them is desirable.

Benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

Diversity and inclusion:

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. We are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment.