Senior Bid Manager in High Etherley

This is an exciting opportunity to take on a role where you’ll be responsible for managing and delivering bids within an area of the business that turns over £25 million pa.

You will play a key role in driving successful outcomes by providing clear direction, motivation, and support to the bid team — ensuring alignment with business goals and full compliance with company policies and procedures.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include:

• Provide leadership for bid team and keep up to date with industry movements and trends in order to demonstrate our credibility and influence current/prospective clients.
• Work with the Business Development Managers to identify and convert work winning opportunities into profitable contracts, in line with business strategy.
• Develop and maintain a network of external relationships, to raise the company profile, generate new business opportunities, understand the competition.
• Use expertise, market intelligence, customer knowledge and influence to prepare a bid winning strategy that differentiates NG Bailey from our competition.
• Secure support from work winning and operational leaders, involving internal/external stakeholders, to deliver the bid within budget.
• Undertake peer review with Senior Bid Manager or Pre-Contract Manager.
• Present prime cost values, with risks and opportunities at final settlement.
• Manage the production of allocated bid submissions.
• Work with Senior Bid Manager or Pre-Contract Manager to ensure Group and Business unit approval.

What we’re looking for:

Someone who comes from a background in Engineering, ideally as a Project Manager or Engineer, who has already made the move into Bid Management and comes with experience in this area.

Benefits: We are always evolving our benefits to ensure we are attracting and retaining great people. Some of what you can expect includes:

• Salary sacrifice car scheme (Hybrid/Electric Vehicle)
• Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution
• Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)
• Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.
• Personal development programme

Next Steps: As a business, we are on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We will do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us: We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.