Senior Bid Manager - MEP/Building Services

Senior Bid Manager

Location - Leeds with travel

Permanent Position

Competitive Salary + Benefits

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity where you’ll be responsible for managing and delivering bids up to £50m, with bid costs of up to £250k, including the preparation and delivery of Red and Gold Team reviews.

In this role you will champion and deliver a winning bid through effective leadership, inspiration and support of the bid team in line with business objectives and within company policy and procedures.

Some of the key deliverables in this role will include

Engage in business strategy and support activities in relation to company communications

Provide leadership for bid team and keep up to date with industry movements and trends in order to demonstrate our credibility and influence current/prospective clients. Provide clear provision of objectives and responsibilities, and development opportunities

Take ownership of business development to identify and convert work winning opportunities into profitable contracts, in line with business strategy.

Develop and maintain a network of external relationships, to raise the company profile, generate new business opportunities, understand the competition.

Use expertise, market intelligence, customer knowledge and influence to prepare a bid winning strategy that differentiates NG Bailey from our competition.

Develop a bid programme, identifying resources, securing support from work winning and operation leaders.

Work with estimating managers to ensure accuracy of cost.

Lead the production of complex bid submissions.

Ensure relevant approvals are obtained through the bid process, including presentation of key target updates, and proposals for review and audit.

What we’re looking for

Significant and demonstrable experience of securing high value profitable opportunities within an MEP/Building Services or construction environment

Management of multiple team members and established network of customer relationships

Demonstrable commercial knowledge around various contracting and conditions

This opportunity could be suited to someone with a background in project management, with a good understanding of MEP projects, and building client relationships.

Desirable Qualifications

Engineering/building services qualification at HNC level

APMP (bid and proposals management) – foundation level

Maintained continued professional development (e.g. CIBSE)

Benefits

We're always evolving our benefits to ensure we're attracting and retaining great people. Some of what you can expect includes:

Car allowance or company car option

Salary sacrifice car scheme (Hybrid/Electric Vehicle)

Pension with a leading provider and up to 8% employer contribution

Personal Wellbeing and Volunteer Days

Private Medical Insurance

Free 24/7 365 Employee Assistance Program to support mental health and well-being (including counselling sessions and legal advice)

Flexible benefits to suit from Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Give As You Earn, Travel Insurance, Tax Free Bikes.

Personal development programme

Next Steps

As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation.

We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us

We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training.

Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies.

Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.

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