Bid Manager - Work From Home in Newcastle upon Tyne

Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. This role will be within our Metering team, you'll join the leading provider of metering services and data collection in the UK energy retail sector, providing efficient and flexible services for gas, electricity and water meters.

As Bid Manager within the M Group, you will play a pivotal role in securing new business and supporting the division's strategic growth objectives. Reporting to the Head of Bids, you will lead the end-to-end management of high quality, competitive bids across In-home.

You will work collaboratively with operational and commercial teams to translate business strategy into compelling written submissions that clearly articulate our value, capability, and commitment to excellence. Through effective bid planning, coordination, and delivery, you will ensure all submissions are engaging, technically robust, and aligned to client requirements and scoring criteria.

You will bring strong communication expertise, producing clear, persuasive content from detailed technical responses to impactful presentations, while confidently managing competing priorities and tight deadlines.

• Lead and deliver strategic bids across the Energy In Home division, supporting growth in areas such as smart metering, low-carbon technologies, and home energy services.
• Own the end-to-end bid lifecycle, ensuring submissions align with process, regulatory requirements, client specifications, and evolving market demands.
• Work closely with operational, technical, and commercial teams to shape innovative, deliverable solutions for in-home energy services.
• Ensure all submissions are high quality, compliant, and tailored, clearly demonstrating customer benefits, service excellence, safety, and sustainability.
• Articulate the division's value proposition, including customer experience, efficiency, decarbonisation, and regulatory compliance.
• Partner with sales and business development teams to identify, shape, and convert opportunities within the Energy in Home market.
• Help to maintain high quality bid library content, including case studies that showcase successful in-home energy solutions.

Significant experience in bid and tender management, ideally within the energy, utilities, or in-home services sector is required. You should have a strong understanding of the Energy in Home market, including smart metering, decarbonisation, energy efficiency, or customer-facing field services.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills are essential, with the ability to influence at all levels. Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary teams (operational, technical, commercial) to deliver high-quality, compliant submissions is necessary.

Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to identify and shape addressable opportunities within target markets is important. Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) are required, along with experience utilising AI as a critical friend to enhance quality and consistency.

High attention to detail and strong quality assurance capability are crucial. Experience producing high-quality written bid materials that reflect innovation and professionalism is expected. A willingness to travel as required is also necessary.

We offer a matched or contributory pension scheme, online GP service available 365 days a year, employee assistance programme and wellbeing support, access to thousands of retail discounts via My Rewards portal, cycle to work and salary finance schemes, enhanced leave policies for maternity, paternity and adoption, and a reward and recognition programme. You will receive 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

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