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Job Description

Bid Manager – Defence / Tender Leadership\n£60,000 | Bristol / London / Birmingham / Manchester (Hybrid 2 days office-based)\nA high-impact Bid Manager role at the heart of the UK defence sector. You’ll lead major bid and tender submissions for a top-tier engineering and consultancy business, working with government organisations and tier-one defence contractors. Your chance to drive high-profile defence projects, coordinating technical experts, consultants, and business development teams to deliver winning proposals.\nAs Bid Manager, you will:\n * Lead + coordinate bid and tender teams, ensuring submissions are delivered on time, on budget, and fully compliant\n * Manage full bid lifecycle—from early engagement and client information capture, through PQQ, ITT, interviews, and contract award\n * Develop and drive win strategies, identifying customer needs, pricing requirements, and solution opportunities\n * Act as central point of coordination across stakeholders, technical experts, and delivery teams\n * Maintain accurate CRM records and support continuous improvement of bid and tender processes\nThis is a hands-on manager role—you will oversee the full end-to-end bid process rather than focus solely on writing content.\nYou’ll thrive in this role if you have:\n * Proven experience as a Bid Manager, managing complex bid and tender submissions\n * Project management, stakeholder coordination, and governance skills\n * Excellent commercial awareness and attention to detail\nExperience within defence, government, regulated or technical sectors would be useful but not necessary\nWork on high-profile defence bids with major UK and international clients, in a collaborative, process-driven tender environment with clear career progression.

Influence bid strategy, processes, and capability development across the business, while enjoying hybrid working across multiple UK locations.\nIf you are a Bid Manager who thrives in a structured environment, coordinating teams to deliver winning proposals, this is your opportunity to make a tangible impact

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