The Senior Bid Manager provides strategic leadership in the planning, management and delivery of high-value, complex and high-profile bid submissions. The role shapes win strategies, ensuring submissions are competitive, client-focused and clearly articulate the organisation's value proposition.

Working closely with directors and senior leadership, the role influences how the business positions itself to clients and drives a consistent, high-quality approach to work-winning. The role also leads, mentors and develops the bid team, while fostering continuous improvement and supporting a high-performing, collaborative environment aligned with organisational objectives.

• Support senior leadership in go/no go decisions and market prioritisation
• Allocate resources across concurrent bids to ensure quality and consistency.
• Lead and oversee major, strategic and complex bids from opportunity qualification through to submission
• Ensure bid approaches align with wider business, sector and client strategies
• Lead internal settlement, compliance and governance reviews.
• Shape and drive bid strategies, win themes and value propositions
• Ensure bids clearly articulate differentiation, certainty, risk management and client value
• Support business development activity, client engagement and strategic pursuits
• Act as a senior interface with Directors, Managing Directors and Business Unit leads
• Line manage and mentor Bid Managers and Bid Coordinators
• Embed best practice, continuous improvement and consistency across all submissions.
• Support preparation of executive summaries, board papers, and approval documentation
• Set and maintain the standard for written quality, visual presentation and messaging
• Act as a guardian of tone, brand and professionalism across all work winning material
• Develop deep understanding of key clients, sectors and competitors
• Lead post bid reviews and feedback analysis to strengthen future performance

What do I need to be successful in this role: 

• Demonstrated ability to influence and engage at senior and executive levels
• Significant experience leading bids for large-scale, complex construction projects
• Strong commercial, strategic and client-focused approach to work-winning
• Proven leadership capability, including coaching, mentoring and decision-making
• Experience managing multiple high-value, time-critical bid pursuits simultaneously
• Experience leading and managing high-performing teams, including setting direction, providing feedback and supporting development.