Senior Bid Manager

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

Location: Leeds

Hours: 37.5, Monday to Friday 

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Bid Manager, you'll be working closely with the pre construction teams and other senior stakeholders within the business to identify bid strategy at early stages  effectively manage the full the bid lifecycle

Your day to day will include:

• Take up early involvement opportunities with clients to fully understand needs, identify opportunities and tailor bid strategy.
• Assist in the assembly of bid teams, identifying key knowledge and expertise relevant to specific bids.
• Arrange and chair Bid Meetings with relevant stakeholders ensuring accurate and effective communication across stakeholders to set strategy, timescales and input obligations.
• Drive engagement and collaboration with subject matter experts to ensure timely receipt of technical information pertaining to bids.
• Interrogate information received from internal stakeholders to ensure accuracy and alignment with the Bid strategy.
• Guide, review and edit bid writing output to ensure that returns are in line with the bid vision.
• Attend?feedback sessions with the client and?coordinate tender queries and amendments.?? 
• Present confidently to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Actively seek out opportunities to facilitate further learning about MMC methodology, industry and technological advancements to ensure Kier are at the vanguard of modern delivery.

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Bid Manager is great for you if you have:

• Previous experience of managing bid services within a tier 1 construction environment.
• Strong construction knowledge gained in a Bidding, Technical or Commercial role within large contractors.
• Expert understanding of the principles of framework procurement and experience within the most current forms of procurement is required.
• Working knowledge of best practice solutions and optimisation of innovative ideas and an understanding of the principles of Lean Construction and 5D cost planning is desirable/may be required
• An understanding of BIM and how to read and assemble BIM models and produce appropriate reports from them is desirable/may be required.
• Membership of a relevant professional body, such as CIOB/RIBA/RICS/ICE

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

• Life assurance
• Kier Rewards
• Additional holiday purchase opportunities
• Pension scheme
• Enhanced family leave & policies
• Share plan schemes
• Free health & wellbeing services
• Colleague lottery