Bid Manager
Location: South East London
Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 per annum
The Company
Our client is a growing specialist contractor delivering electrical, security and infrastructure solutions across a range of sectors. With an excellent reputation for quality and continued business growth, they are looking to appoint an experienced Bid Manager to lead their tendering function and play a key role in securing new business opportunities.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative and ambitious business where you'll work closely with senior leadership and have genuine ownership of the bid process from start to finish.
Working alongside the Operations Manager and technical specialists, you'll prepare compelling, commercially competitive submissions while ensuring bids are delivered to the highest standard and within deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
Location: South East London
Salary: £65,000 - £70,000 per annum
The Company
Our client is a growing specialist contractor delivering electrical, security and infrastructure solutions across a range of sectors. With an excellent reputation for quality and continued business growth, they are looking to appoint an experienced Bid Manager to lead their tendering function and play a key role in securing new business opportunities.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a collaborative and ambitious business where you'll work closely with senior leadership and have genuine ownership of the bid process from start to finish.
Working alongside the Operations Manager and technical specialists, you'll prepare compelling, commercially competitive submissions while ensuring bids are delivered to the highest standard and within deadlines.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end bid process from opportunity identification through to submission and project handover.
- Review tender documentation, identify risks and prepare high-quality, compliant bid responses.
- Coordinate internal stakeholders to ensure bids are delivered on time and to a consistently high standard.
- Produce accurate cost estimates and support commercially competitive pricing strategies.
- Identify value engineering opportunities to maximise profitability and improve win rates.
- Build strong relationships with clients, procurement teams and framework providers.
- Attend client meetings, site visits, bid presentations and clarification meetings where required.
- Work closely with operational teams to ensure successful handover of awarded projects.
- Monitor market trends, competitor activity and framework opportunities to support future growth.
- Proven experience in Bid Management, Estimating or Tender Management within the electrical, mechanical, M&E, security systems or wider construction sector.
- Strong commercial awareness with experience preparing accurate cost estimates and pricing submissions.
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to produce persuasive, high-quality tender responses and manage multiple bids simultaneously.
- Strong stakeholder management, organisation and project coordination skills.
- Knowledge of public sector procurement, PQQs/SQs, NEC or JCT contracts would be advantageous, along with experience using Microsoft Office and bid management or estimating software.
