Senior Preconstruction Project Manager role in Midlands region
Reporting to Preconstruction Manager, with hybrid work arrangement
Managing bids for projects ranging from £10m to £100m
Essential experience in preconstruction bid management
Competitive salary and market-leading benefits package
Senior Preconstruction Project Manager
Willmott Dixon is looking for a dynamic Senior Preconstruction Project Manager (Bid Manager) to join our Midlands region. Supporting our preconstruction team in the West Midlands, you will be based in our Central Birmingham office primarily and work on a hybrid basis.
Reporting to the Preconstruction Manager, the successful person will demonstrate true leadership and manage both internal and external resources to deliver successful bids, on time, within budget and to the highest quality, ensuring our customers' expectations are met and, wherever possible, exceeded. Essentially project managing the preconstruction bid process throughout the PSCA period.
With a proven track record of successful projects, you will be responsible for leading two-stage/negotiated tenders for projects ranging in value from £10m to £100m across a range of sectors, including Education, Leisure, Health, Blue Light, transport and Commercial. At Willmott Dixon we operate through several frameworks, allowing for a greater probability of seeing your hard work come to life.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Preconstruction Project Manager, you will be responsible for:
- Motivating and leading a bid team that includes both internal (estimators, design professionals, MEP professionals and planners) and often external (supply chain and consultants) resource.
- Working closely with your team to develop the commercial strategy.
- Managing the customers' expectations through informal and formal 'health checks', adopting a professional and considerate approach to maintain good working relations.
- Developing and incorporating project strategies to achieve the company's sustainability objectives.
- Ensuring regular monitoring and reporting on progress, managing potential risks and opportunities, and instigating pre-emptive and corrective actions as required.
- Maintaining continuous professional development of yourself and your team to ensure appropriate technical awareness, implementing best practices and driving continuous improvement.
- Maintaining a 'one team' approach throughout to create a seamless transition from preconstruction to operations.
- Coordinating inception workshops with our customers and using your proven listening skills to ensure we truly understand our customers 'Why', gaining vital information that will enable your bid team to go the extra mile.
Essential and Desirable Criteria
- Experience in managing diverse technical input, understanding complex construction schemes and leading the bid or PCSA process for a construction main contractor in a preconstruction manager or bid manager role previously.
- You will need experience leading a multi-disciplinary project team consisting planners, estimators, quantity surveyors, design managers, and those from operations, throughout RIBA Stages 2-4.
- Valid UK driving license.
- Experience of successfully securing construction projects on the Department for Education framework.
- MCIOB or working towards.
Additional Information
In Return: we reward our people generously with a competitive salary and a market-leading benefits 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 for you and a partner, life assurance, generous annual leave entitlement, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel.
At Willmott Dixon we provide an inclusive and flexible working environment for people to thrive in and we are happy to support agile working wherever possible.
We are a proud member of the Disability Confident 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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