Job Summary

As a Senior Bid Manager, you will lead and manage complex bid and proposal activities, working closely with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality, competitive submissions across a range of projects. You will ensure that all bid deliverables are fully compliant with client requirements, contractual terms, industry standards, and internal governance processes, while driving value, risk management, and commercial excellence throughout the bid lifecycle.

Duties

• Lead end-to-end bid management across multiple concurrent opportunities, ensuring delivery to cost, quality, and schedule
• Ability to manage multiple bids simultaneously (volume of bids is more important than scale of bids)
• Apply Shipley best-practice methodology, including planning, governance, reviews, and compliance management
• Rapidly adapt to and operate within the client Lifecycle bid process, maintaining strong governance and audit trails
• Plan and manage bid schedules, resources, and review cycles
• Coordinate inputs from engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and supply chain teams
• Ensure full compliance with customer requirements and internal governance standards
• Identify and manage bid risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating where appropriate

• Requirements

  • Proven track record of delivering complex proposals under short timescales and delivering complex and challenging projects; ‘lead by example’
  • Strong interpersonal and leadership skills in communication, delegation and motivation.
  • To have good analytical skills to be able to challenge the core team constantly, achieving best value for the customer.
  • Good communication skills to enable discussion and presentation of complex issues and solutions
  • Critical thinking and problem solving
  • Stakeholder Management

• Experience

  • Proven experience as a Senior Bid Manager delivering multiple concurrent bids in a Shipley-based environment

  
  

  Need SC clearance ideally before applying but will also accept those eligible. Have to be a sole UK national.

  
  

  12 Month Contract- Possible Extension

  Inside IR35 Contract

  Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bristol (Bristol)