About the role
Shape winning bids. Build trusted partnerships. Help deliver the infrastructure of tomorrow.
Are you an experienced bid professional who thrives on bringing people, ideas and strategy together to create compelling, high-quality proposals?
At Balfour Beatty, we are looking for a Bid Manager to lead and co-ordinate the full bid lifecycle, helping us secure profitable work and deliver solutions that make a lasting difference for our customers, communities and industry.
In this role, you will be at the heart of our work winning activity, managing complex bids from strategy through to submission, presentation and successful handover. You will work closely with senior leaders, customers, partners, consultants, supply chain specialists and technical teams to develop competitive, compliant and customer-focused proposals that reflect our expertise and ambition.
We are flexible on base location for this role, with office options available in London, Derby, Birmingham and Warrington.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the development and delivery of bid strategies that support profitable growth and align with business priorities.
- Build strong, positive relationships with customers and their representatives to understand requirements, priorities and opportunities.
- Manage bid budgets, programmes, governance documentation and key submission deliverables.
- Co-ordinate input from technical, legal, commercial, financial, planning, sustainability and supply chain teams to create clear and compelling bid content.
- Oversee customer presentations, tender settlement meetings and approvals for major or multiple bids.
- Lead bid management processes, including clarification registers, document control, risk registers, meeting records and tender settlement documentation.
- Gather customer and competitor intelligence, including SWOT analysis, to strengthen our offer.
- Support innovation within bids, including digital toolsets, BIM, 5D cost planning and submissions technology where relevant.
- Lead the handover of secured work to delivery teams, ensuring a smooth transition from bid to project mobilisation.
- Champion Balfour Beatty’s values, with a relentless focus on Zero Harm, sustainability and doing the right thing.
Who we're looking for
We are looking for someone who combines strong bid management experience with the confidence to influence, challenge and bring diverse teams together under time pressure. You will be customer-focused, commercially aware and able to turn complex requirements into high-quality, persuasive proposals.
- Experience managing bid services within construction, infrastructure or engineering environments.
- A sound understanding of current procurement routes, including framework procurement.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Strong bid writing, IT and numeracy skills, with attention to detail and a focus on quality.
- The ability to manage competing priorities and maintain momentum across multiple workstreams.
- A proactive approach to innovation, continuous improvement and customer intelligence.
- Membership of a relevant professional body such as RICS, CIOB, RIBA, ICE, MICE or MIStructE would be desirable.
- A valid CSCS card is required.
- Knowledge of Lean Construction, BIM, best practice solutions or 5D cost planning would be advantageous.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About us
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [email protected]
Job Reference: BBUK19572
