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Senior Bid Manager

United Kingdom, Coventry · Job Posted January 16, 2026
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Job Description

The successful candidate will be responsible for Bid Management of key bids and oversight of early contractor involvement (ECI) projects. Experience of the energy sector and delivering bids and frameworks within the transmission environment is highly desired and we are happy to consider Design Managers or Engineering Managers looking to apply their skills in Bid Management.

Job Responsibility

  • Plan and manage all aspects of bids providing subject matter expertise where required
  • Ensure effective and inspirational bid management and leadership is provided on all tenders, while personally managing larger tender opportunities
  • Understand and interact with the overall Morgan Sindall business to allow projection of benefits to customers, through our proposals
  • Establish winning strategies and writing plans for quality led bids and participates in red reviews of prequalification documents and tenders
  • Give support and assistance to other bid team members as required to ensure bid management is value adding and effective throughout the business
  • Coordinate the production of bids and proposals while producing costed bid plans and gaining all relevant authorisations
  • Identify the skills and capabilities required to submit the bid and subsequently fulfil the contract, from in-house or from third parties
  • Record, analyse and manage issues, risks, changes, and dependencies during the bid.

Requirements

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent in relevant field
  • Chartered engineer or similar and participation in affiliated bodies (for example Institute of Civil Engineering)
  • Previous senior level involvement in work winning within Energy or Civil infrastructure
  • Experience managing significant bids and other submissions to win profitable work.

What we offer

  • 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
  • a support and advice service for colleagues and their families.
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