Bid Manager - senior - flexible working

The Department We're on an ambitious growth journey, with our Marketing & Business Development Group playing a pivotal role in shaping the firm's future. This is a business that invests in its people, values collaboration, and gives its teams the space and support to do their best work.

Our recently refreshed M&BD strategy has been developed following an in-depth review and is fully endorsed by our UK Board. Working closely with partners, lawyers and business services colleagues, the team leads the firm's most strategically important bids, pitches and panel appointments. From short-term opportunities to long-term sector priorities, the work is varied, fast-paced and highly visible.

We're looking for an experienced Senior Bids Manager to provide leadership and strategic direction across our bid activity, from early opportunity assessment and bid/no-bid decisions through to submission and post-bid debriefs. You'll play a central role in ensuring we consistently produce high-quality, compelling and commercially focused submissions that maximise our chances of success. You'll work closely with partners and senior colleagues, as well as teams across marketing, knowledge management, IT and finance, to articulate our proposition, showcase our strengths and respond intelligently to client needs and expectations.

• Proven experience leading end-to-end bid processes at a senior level, ideally within a professional services environment.
• A strong track record of directing virtual bid teams and coordinating diverse stakeholder inputs, including subject matter experts, pricing and commercial specialists, and risk and compliance colleagues.
• The ability to oversee multiple live bids simultaneously while maintaining a high standard of quality, strategic alignment and attention to detail.
• Confidence in building trusted relationships across an organisation and coaching senior colleagues through pitch and presentation stages, with the credibility to influence at partner level.

The role can be based in any of our UK offices (Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Newcastle, Plymouth, or Southampton), or remotely, provided you're able to attend an office when needed. We operate a hybrid working approach, with most colleagues typically spending around three days a week in the office and two working from home. We're pragmatic and flexible, balancing individual needs with the requirements of the role and the team.

We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working. We have a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

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