Bid Manager

Bid Manager
Chorley | £45,000–£55,000 | Permanent

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Bid Manager to play a key role in securing new work and driving high-quality tender submissions for a growing engineering and delivery-focused organisation.

In this role, you’ll lead the full tender lifecycle — from opportunity identification through to submission and handover — ensuring every proposal is compliant, compelling, and commercially robust. Working closely with Business Development, Engineering and Project Delivery teams, you’ll coordinate contributions across the business to shape winning strategies, define clear win themes, and produce standout bids that reflect our technical capability and commitment to safety and quality.

You will also lead and develop a dedicated Bid Team, embedding best practice, consistency, and continuous improvement across the function.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end tender process, ensuring timely, high-quality and compliant submissions.

• Lead bid planning, bid/no-bid decisions and pipeline forecasting with Business Development.

• Coordinate technical, commercial and delivery inputs to build robust, competitive tenders.

• Ensure technical and commercial compliance while identifying risks and opportunities early.

• Produce and review proposal content including executive summaries, bases of offer and tender responses.

• Present proposal strategies internally and externally, articulating win themes and differentiators.

• Maintain and develop a high-quality bid content library.

• Support accurate sales reporting and forecasting.

• Build strong relationships with clients, procurement teams and industry stakeholders.

• Lead, mentor and manage the Bid Team, driving collaboration and continuous improvement.

• Manage bid budgets and ensure efficient tendering processes.

About You

• A proactive, collaborative bid professional with experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary tenders.

• 3–5 years’ experience in bids, proposals or tender management.

• Excellent communication, organisation and time-management skills.

• Able to manage multiple bids in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong attention to detail, initiative and a positive “can-do” mindset.

• Proficient in MS Office and Adobe Acrobat.

Qualifications

• APMP certification preferred or willingness to work towards it.

Additional Requirements

• Willingness to undergo SC security clearance.