Bid Manager

We're looking for a Bid Manager to join our Infrastructure team

Location: Flexible within the UK - remote working available, with occasional travel to offices/ sites required.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role

As a Bid Manager at Kier Infrastructure, you'll play a vital role in securing strategic projects by crafting compelling, client-focused proposals. You'll lead tender opportunities independently and collaborate with Senior Bid Managers on major pursuits in a supportive and flexible environment. This is an exciting chance to make a real impact, using your creativity and expertise to help shape winning bids that showcase our capabilities.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Bid Manager, you'll be working within the Preconstruction team, supporting them in delivering high-quality tender submissions.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading the development of tenders and managing bid teams from opportunity identification to contract award
• Building and nurturing relationships with clients and internal teams to create winning strategies
• Coordinating bid resources, chairing meetings, and ensuring timely completion of actions
• Managing tender programmes and ensuring submissions highlight our technical expertise and experience
• Facilitating governance processes and maintaining comprehensive risk and opportunity registers

What are we looking for?

This role of Bid Manager is great for you if you hold:

• Experience in bid or preconstruction management within a Tier 1 construction environment 
• A strong track record of developing bid strategies and delivering successful bids
• Ability to lead, collaborate and inspire others
• Strong understanding of the bid process, particuarly value propositioning, commercial and estimating understanding
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal skills- being able to present written information in a professional and concise format
• Proficient user in Microsoft software (i.e Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
• Full driving licence 

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.