Assistant Bid Manager in Wigan

Murphy is recruiting for an Assistant Bid Manager to work with our Work Winning Proposals Team in Golborne, Wigan. Our business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all our customers. Throughout our history we have strived to challenge the norm and incorporate a wide range of new technologies and capabilities to ensure we meet the ever-changing markets and demands. Today we support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries - ensuring their energy security for decades to come. We offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. We deliver Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Our continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures we remain at the forefront of the industry, and is demonstrated in our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.

A day in the life of an Assistant Bid Manager:

• Manage Own Tenders: Take day-to-day responsibility for organising and delivering smaller-to-medium infrastructure bids worth up to £50m.
• Cover Diverse Sectors: Run and support bids across both power infrastructure (substations, cables) and Natural Resources, including gas AGIs, pipeline diversions, hydrogen, and CO2 projects.
• Find New Contracts: Check procurement websites every day for new project notices, pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQs), and expressions of interest in the energy and gas sectors.
• Handle Client Questions: Log and track all official questions sent to and from utility clients during the bid, making sure your team answers them on time.
• Write Basic Answers: Draft standard text for the bids, focusing on our company history, health and safety records, gas/electricity compliance standards, and environmental policies.
• Organise Bidding Files: Keep the central bid library updated with fresh project photos, gas/power case studies, staff CVs, and successful past answers.
• Keep Meetings on Track: Book progress meetings, write down action points, and chase engineering and estimating team members to make sure they finish their parts on time.
• Gather Supplier Info: Contact specialist subcontractors and equipment suppliers to collect their safety certificates, insurance details, and signed confidentiality agreements.
• Check for Mistakes: Read through final tender packs to ensure every single form, financial sheet, and appendix requested by the client is included.
• Make Documents Look Professional & Upload: Fix the final formatting of the documents so they look polished, and manage the final upload process on client online portals before the strict deadline.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience of delivering successful high value bids across Rail / Transportation, Highways, Water, Power, Building, Oil and Gas and Tunnelling.
• Strong writing, editing and organisational skills.
• The ability to convey complex and technical issues in clear, plain English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders externally and across the business.
• Knowledge of the bid lifecycle from tracking of OJEU notices to PQQ, Tender and Post Tender Interviews.
• Experience of facilitating and updating a knowledgebase system is essential along with advanced MS Word skills & proficient in MS Office.

What’s in it for you?

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service.
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review.
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme.
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus.
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus.
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations.
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development.
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc.

About Murphy:

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £5.4bn and £23m invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is #MoretoMurphy.

Due to the requirements of the role, in addition to our standard identity and right to work checks, successful candidates will be asked to undertake a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check. Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK.