Commercial & Bids Lead; R20 -R39

Our client in the construction sector is currently hiring for lead, manage, and industrialiser of the organisation’s full commercial tendering office, including the bid production lifecycle, technical-commercial costing, NEC contract administration support, and revenue pipeline development.

The successful candidate will serve as the principal internal revenue manufacturing manager by ensuring tender opportunities are converted into high-quality, compliant, technically coordinated, and commercially profitable submissions.

The role also aims to significantly reduce CEO operational bid dependency by taking full day-to-day responsibility for the bid assembly office.

• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Commercial Management or related discipline.
• Formal NEC3/NEC4 ECC contract management exposure highly advantageous.
• Minimum 5-8 years proven experience in engineering/infrastructure tendering, commercial costing, BOQ pricing and contract administration.
• Strong practical understanding of Eskom/SOE tendering environments, returnables and technical bid structures.
• Proven experience coordinating multidisciplinary tender contributors under strict deadlines.

• Advanced commercial acumen and margin awareness.
• Tender planning and deadline control.
• BOQ and activity schedule costing proficiency.
• Supplier and subcontractor negotiation.
• Document control and compliance discipline.
• Analytical thinking and risk interpretation.
• Leadership under pressure.
• Strong NEC/GCC contractual literacy.
• Executive reporting capability.
• Dashboards.

• Manage end-to-end tender process from identification, interpretation, costing coordination, technical work package allocation, executive review through to final submission.
• Chair internal bid planning meetings and issue tender breakdown sheets for every approved tender.
• Coordinate all outsourced bid associates including estimator/QS, method statement planner, SHEQ specialist and discipline technical reviewers.
• Lead compilation of BOQ rates, activity schedules, preliminaries, RFQ commercial comparisons and subcontractor pricing analyses.
• Maintain the live Tender Register, Bid/No-Bid Matrix, Weighted Pipeline Dashboard and Submission Tracker.
• Manage NEC early warning trackers, compensation event costing schedules, delayed approval notices and commercial recovery files on live projects.
• Develop and continuously improve the Bid Library including master methodologies, organograms, commercial templates and supplier databases.
• Prepare executive tender summary reports and obtain CEO final strategic sign-off.
• Conduct post-submission reviews and monthly tender performance analytics.