Bid Manager, Management

Kane Group are an established, and successful multi-disciplinary building-services solution contractor, with our Head Office based in Banbridge, Northern Ireland.

The Bid Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating the end-to-end bid process for tender opportunities from bid development through to submission, negotiation, and contract award.

The role provides a central point of control and oversight of the bid process, ensuring all technical, commercial, and quality elements are aligned and delivered in line with client requirements, submission deadlines, and Company bid strategy.

The Bid Manager leads and coordinates input from estimating, pre‑construction, design, commercial, and leadership teams to deliver high quality, compliant, and competitive bids.

The Bid Manager will lead and develop Estimating Managers and their teams, ensuring a structured, consistent and high‑quality approach across all bids.

Location: London (with travel throughout UK and to Head Office in NI as required)
Salary: Competitive

• Develop and maintain relationships with key clients, consultants and main contractor contacts to support the identification, qualification and progression of future tender opportunities.
• Assess tender opportunities in collaboration with Business Development Managers, evaluating against bid criteria and present recommendations to the Bid Director.
• Monitor and analyse bid and sales performance, including strike rates across sectors, regions and clients, using available data and reporting (e.g. KPI dashboards / Power BI), to identify trends, risks and opportunities and provide insights and recommendations to the Bid Director.
• Own and manage the bid process setting clear milestones and submission timelines and ensuring effective planning, resource allocation and task delegation through Estimating Managers to deliver high‑quality submissions on time.
• Coordinate inputs from pre‑construction, design, commercial, and other stakeholders to ensure bids are aligned and meet client and company requirements.
• Contribute directly to the development of complex or high‑value bids where hands‑on input is required.
• Oversee the review and interpretation of tender documentation undertaken by the Estimating Managers, providing challenge and direction to ensure key risks, opportunities, assumptions, and exclusions are identified and clearly communicated across the bid team.
• Coordinate early involvement of the Head of Contracts and Compliance to ensure contractual risks and requirements are understood and inform the bid approach.
• Interpret client requirements and Invitations to Tender (ITT), contributing to bid strategy development and clearly defining deliverables aligned to company objectives and client expectations.
• Lead risk workshops and contribute to risk registers and mitigation strategies.

• Ensure bids align with company commercial objectives, applying review and challenge at key stages to ensure commercial benchmarks (KPIs) are considered and inform decision‑making.
• Lead internal pre‑tender reviews, mid‑tender progress reviews and bid adjudications, ensuring stakeholder alignment at each stage.
• Oversee and provide final review of estimates produced by the estimating team, challenging outputs to ensure pricing, technical solutions, methodologies, and clarifications are aligned, robust, and internally consistent
• Conduct final internal compliance review of tender submissions, ensuring alignment with ITT, contractual, technical, and quality requirements prior to submission and Bid Director approval.
• Prepare and present finalisation reports, documenting the agreed commercial position key assumptions, exclusion, risks and recommendations arising from the bid adjudication.

• Ensure bid submissions are clearly structured, consistent, and professionally presented, with all responses aligned to client requirements.
• Act as the senior interface with client and main contractor counterparts throughout the tender and post‑tender stages, engaging on engaging on commercial, technical and bid‑related…