Senior Bid Manager - London

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About the role

At Balfour Beatty, we create the buildings and infrastructure that shape the way people live, work, and connect. Our Regional Build business delivers high-quality projects across defence, education, healthcare and commercial across the South East region.

We're now looking for an experienced Senior Bid Manager to join our work winning team. This is a key leadership role, where you'll take ownership of developing and managing winning bids that reflect our technical expertise, innovation, and commitment to excellence.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior Bid Manager you will:

• Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary bid teams, driving collaboration across pre-construction, commercial, design, and delivery functions.
• Develop and implement winning bid strategies that showcase Balfour Beatty's strengths and deliver value for our clients.
• Manage bid programmes, governance, and documentation to ensure compliance and timely delivery.
• Engage with clients, consultants, and internal stakeholders to build trust and shape compelling project solutions.
• Lead the development of written and visual content that clearly communicates our value proposition.
• Support the continuous improvement of our bid processes and mentor junior team members.

Who we're looking for

You will have the following:

• experience in bid management or pre-construction within the UK construction industry.
• A successful track record of leading bids for construction/infrastructure projects across education, healthcare, or commercial sectors.
• Strong commercial understanding and familiarity with design and construction processes.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• The ability to lead and motivate diverse teams while maintaining focus on quality and deadlines.
• A collaborative, solutions-driven approach and commitment to continuous improvement.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package that's right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more...

About us

Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com