7 Project Bidding jobs in the United Kingdom

Head of Bid Management

Civil Engineering / Infrastructure

Swindon

Permanent | Full-Time

Competitive + Package

Our client is seeking a dynamic and strategic Head of Bid Management to lead its national work-winning function. In this senior leadership role, you will be responsible for overseeing bid managers, estimators, coordinators, and writers, while collaborating with directors and technical teams to drive successful tender outcomes across complex civil engineering projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, motivate, and mentor multidisciplinary bid teams.
• Develop and execute bid strategies aligned with business goals.
• Ensure bids meet governance, compliance, and quality standards.
• Facilitate effective collaboration between commercial, planning, and operational stakeholders.
• Proactively identify and solve bid-related challenges.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in tender processes.
• Oversee resource planning, recruitment, and training within the bid department.
• Manage departmental reporting, budgeting, and performance tracking.

Required Experience:

• Strong track record in leading work-winning teams in the construction sector.
• Sound knowledge of UK construction, civil engineering, and procurement legislation.
• Skilled in NEC/JCT contracts, pricing mechanisms, and preconstruction strategy.
• Excellent client-facing, problem-solving, and leadership skills.

This is a high-impact, strategic role offering the chance to shape the future pipeline of a major international contractor.

Interested? Get in touch for a confidential conversation or apply today.

The Role: Head of Bid Management

Location: Bristol

Hybrid Working: Yes (2 days a week office working, central Bristol )

About Nomensa

Nomensa is a strategic experience design agency based in Bristol, London, and Amsterdam. Combining our experience in psychology, interaction design and technology, we create world class digital experiences.

We work closely with our extensive range of clients across multiple and diverse sectors to design award winning inclusive digital experiences that help millions of people. From blue chips to start-ups, from Deliveroo to the NHS, whatever the sector, we deliver experience excellence.

We are part of the Sideshow Group, a global community of digital and marketing agencies with an ambitious growth agenda. We get to collaborate, share knowledge and learn. This means potential for all sorts of future development opportunities and variety of work across the Group. 

We hybrid work so you get to come together in the office to collaborate and connect, as well as have some working from home time f that's your preference. We also have other patterns support work/life balance (for example, part-time contracts, nomad working, sabbaticals etc). 

Requirements

What you’ll be doing
Your role as Head of Bid Management will be to manage and build the team, bringing best practice bid management into our processes as well as being ‘hands-on’ with your own industry-leading quality bids. You’ll ensure the smooth running of the bid team, and that we are effectively collaborating across all departments. You’ll also need to be strategic, analysing and learning from what we're winning/what we're not and implementing new initiatives to create success for the business including training. You will take on high level conversations with the senior leadership team, like how we qualify new opportunities and how we package up and frame Nomensa offerings - to ensure we're meeting the changing needs of clients and winning against the competition.

Salesforce is fundamental to successful performance and forecasting within Nomensa. You will play a pivotal role in its success within the business, working closely with the CSD and Operations Director to ensure that the account and business development teams use it in line with the expectations set out by the business. You’ll be training new members of the team in our sales process, and heavily influencing our approach to producing winning bids.

The other pillar to our on-going success is the continued feeding of our Bids Content Repository (to allow all team members to self-serve, by finding winning bids content). You'll take responsibility for the on-going success of this easy-to-use platform - listening to feedback from internal users, iterating the IA/tagging where needed, training people in its use, and most importantly ensuring it's always up to date with winning content. 

You’ll also be researching and monitoring new and relevant frameworks, like G-Cloud, and DOS, and ensuring we are always putting forward our best credentials at all times, as we do a lot of work in the government sector. A track record of capture planning and pre-engagement is also desirable. 

What we’re looking for
As this is a ‘Head of’ role at Nomensa, it's essential that you are analytical, strategic, commercial, able to think ahead and identify inefficiencies/risks, and be able to work collaboratively for the good of all, continually refining our processes. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate a track-record of multi-million pounds wins and an impressive conversion rate, as well as impact on organisational effectiveness in your previous roles in bid management.

Relevant industry experience is essential, in fields such as technical software development or design.Line management experience is vital, as are good project management and organisational skills, excellent attention to detail, excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and the ability to continually challenge the status quo and drive new processes during our growth.

Invariably our bids involve design, software development, research, user testing, accessibility and these can be very complex – working with and galvanising various talented practitioners and subject matter experts to produce well-crafted and accurately budgeted responses. So you'll be used to working at pace, and with people from all kinds of different specialisms, to create consensus and drive forward winning bids. 

Benefits

Our benefits for UK employees include:

· Time to recharge: 25 days holiday (rising to 30 with length of service), your birthday off, holiday exchange scheme (up to 5 days), Summer Fridays.

· Health & Wellbeing: BUPA cashback scheme, BUPA medical insurance (with service), 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme cycle to work scheme, Mental Health 1st Aiders

· Financial wellbeing: competitive salaries, company pension contribution, , life insurance, financial wellbeing service, employee discount scheme

· Life beyond work: time off for charity work, involvement in our employee groups on ED&I, mental health, environment, and regular socials and fun events arranged by our Chief Happiness Officers!

The Application Process: 

The closing date for applications is: 22nd January 2023.

Applicants will be shortlisted and selected for a short call with our Talent Acquisition Specialist. You'll talk experience, ambitions and salary expectations. From there the interview process will consist of two stages.

If you’re excited about working for us but don’t have all the relevant skills, we would still love to hear from you. You may have relevant experience or transferable skills. We are all the better because of the many diverse backgrounds our employees have so don't let not ticking every box hold you back, give it a go!

Interview Adjustments

We do everything possible to create the best experience for candidates. We appreciate interviews can be challenging, so, please let us know if any adjustments will make you more comfortable or confident. For example, provide extra time or flexibility on assessments, have a chaperone on the interview, supply questions up front, or anything else that might help your application. 

Our Talent Acquisition Specialist Corrie ( ) can help with any questions during the recruitment process. 

Nomensa is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are currently working with a n independant Facilities Management consultancy to recruit a Senior Bid Manager who will aim to pursue and successfully convert opportunities in the public sector.

The role will be home based and so location is fully flexible, with travel as and when required.

The business has secured a number of high-profile contract wins recently, and so with that are in need of further expansion and have a great opportunity for a strong Bid Manager/Junior Bid Director to join the business and work alongside the existing Business Development Director, focussing on predominantly public sector TFM bids.

As the business is in its relative infancy, it offers a great opportunity to move up the ranks to Director level fairly swiftly

Key responsibilities:

• Capture and strategy: ensure a complete understanding of opportunities, including stakeholders/ decision-makers, hot buttons, competitors and context, to enable effective opportunity capture and create a winning strategy
li>Relationships: Build and maintain strong working relationships with clients to convert prospects into opportunities
• Quality: Proactively monitor and maintain high levels of quality and accuracy within bids and tenders
• Governance and Approval: Lead internal governance processes at required levels 
li>Stay abreast of industry/market trends and updates and competitors /competitor activity in our markets/sector
• Maintain and share professional knowledge through education, networking, events, and presentations

Requirements:

• A track record of growing business and winning bids for the public sector.
• Commercially focused, confident, self- driven and inventive, with exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills with the ability to listen and to communicate complex ideas confidently.
• Time management and ability to meet deadlines, and ability to work under pressure

We are currently working with a n independant Facilities Management consultancy to recruit a Senior Bid Manager who will aim to pursue and successfully convert opportunities in the public sector.

The role will be home based and so location is fully flexible, with travel as and when required.

The business has secured a number of high-profile contract wins recently, and so with that are in need of further expansion and have a great opportunity for a strong Bid Manager/Junior Bid Director to join the business and work alongside the existing Business Development Director, focussing on predominantly public sector TFM bids.

As the business is in its relative infancy, it offers a great opportunity to move up the ranks to Director level fairly swiftly

Key responsibilities:

• Capture and strategy: ensure a complete understanding of opportunities, including stakeholders/ decision-makers, hot buttons, competitors and context, to enable effective opportunity capture and create a winning strategy
li>Relationships: Build and maintain strong working relationships with clients to convert prospects into opportunities
• Quality: Proactively monitor and maintain high levels of quality and accuracy within bids and tenders
• Governance and Approval: Lead internal governance processes at required levels 
li>Stay abreast of industry/market trends and updates and competitors /competitor activity in our markets/sector
• Maintain and share professional knowledge through education, networking, events, and presentations

Requirements:

• A track record of growing business and winning bids for the public sector.
• Commercially focused, confident, self- driven and inventive, with exceptional attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills with the ability to listen and to communicate complex ideas confidently.
• Time management and ability to meet deadlines, and ability to work under pressure

Bid Writer (Construction / Waste management)

Hook

40,000 - 45,000 + Progression + Training + Private Medical + Company Pension + Life Insurance + On-site Parking + Cycle to Work Scheme + Company Events

Are you a Bid Writer or similar experience in construction or waste management looking to join a family-run, industry-leading business that offers real career progression, hands-on training, and the opportunity to grow with a company on an exciting growth trajectory?

Do you want to take the next step in your career with a forward-thinking, market-leading company at the forefront of sustainable construction solutions?

On offer is a great opportunity to join a well-established, rapidly growing business recognised for its innovation across waste management, premium recycled aggregates, and award-winning ready-mix concrete. As a close-knit, family-run company with a national reputation, they are driving real change in the industry and you could be a key part of that journey.

In this role you will take a step into a pivotal role that blends bid writing, business development, and strategic marketing. You'll play a central part in identifying high-value tender opportunities, crafting compelling submissions, and contributing to a robust business development strategy that supports continued growth across the Contracting division.

This role would suit a Junior Bid Coordinator or similar experience in construction or waste management looking to join a family-run, industry-leading business that offers real career progression, hands-on training, and the opportunity to grow with a company on an exciting growth trajectory.

The Role:

• Create compelling PQQs and tender submissions
• Source and convert new business opportunities
• Manage bid content, case studies, and visuals

The Person:

• Experience in bid writing or similar field
• Construction background
• Based near Hook, with easy access to the office

Keywords : Bid Writer, Business Development, Construction, Sales, Marketing, Waste Management, Slough, Berkshire, Hook, Basingstoke, Fleet, Aldershot

Reference Number: BBBH20871

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates. The salary advertised is a guideline for this position. The offered remuneration will be dependent on the extent of your experience, qualifications, and skill set.

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Bid Writer (Construction / Waste management)

Hook

£40,000 - £45,000 + Progression + Training + Private Medical + Company Pension + Life Insurance + On-site Parking + Cycle to Work Scheme + Company Events

Are you a Bid Writer or similar experience in construction or waste management looking to join a family-run, industry-leading business that offers real career progression, hands-on training, and the .