Head of Bid Management

• Provide leadership and coordination across all pre-contract activities, including bidding, ECI and early delivery phases
• Lead the Bid Management function across key Energy sector accounts, ensuring consistency and best practice
• Oversee the development and submission of high-quality, winning bids aligned to business strategy and win themes
• Manage and support a central work-winning team, driving performance across multiple concurrent bids
• Build strong relationships with strategic clients (e.g. National Grid), senior stakeholders, and internal teams
• Develop innovative bid strategies and clearly define commercial positions on key opportunities
• Create and manage bid programmes, resource plans, and budgets
• Maintain oversight of the opportunity pipeline to inform senior management decision making
• Coordinate risk and opportunity capture across all bids
• Lead governance and internal approval processes, ensuring compliance with company procedures
• Support early contractor involvement stages and guide teams through to successful bid conversion
• Operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, ensuring multiple workstreams progress to deadlines.

• Extensive experience in pre-contract, bidding, or work-winning roles within the built environment
• Strong background in the Energy sector (e.g. OHL, cabling, substations desirable)
• Experience working within a Tier 1 contractor environment
• Proven ability to lead, motivate and manage teams across multiple locations and bids
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including strategic client relationships
• Commercially astute with the ability to shape winning bid strategies
• Solid understanding of risk management, governance and bid approval processes
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure
• Degree or professional background in Engineering (Civil, Electrical or Mechanical preferred)
• Professional membership (e.g. ICE, IMechE) desirable
• Strong IT skills, particularly in PowerPoint and Excel
• Self-motivated, proactive and able to drive performance in a fast-paced environment.

Professional membership (e.g. ICE, IMechE)

• Generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy five days
• Flexible and adaptable working
• Family friendly policies and work/life approach
• Mentoring programmes and continuous learning support
• Contributory pension scheme
• Annual bonus scheme
• Recognition scheme and long service awards
• Car scheme and Private Medical Insurance (if applicable to role)
• Option to participate in our share-save scheme
• Discounts including cycle to work and gym membership
• Support and advice service for colleagues and their families