Bid Manager, Business

About the role

Balfour Beatty Living Places is recruiting a Bid Manager to lead the pursuit of major opportunities across the highways maintenance market, including securing and retaining long-term contracts valued up to £1bn.

As Bid Manager, you will play a central role in assembling and leading high-performing bid teams to develop compelling, customer-focused proposals. You’ll work across the full bid lifecycle – from early engagement and capture planning through to submission and successful contract mobilisation.

Working in partnership with local authorities, Balfour Beatty Living Places delivers highways maintenance, street lighting and public realm services, helping communities run efficiently and safely every day.

• Leading the development and delivery of strategic bids from early engagement through to handover
• Owning bid strategy, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and business objectives
• Managing bid teams, including internal SMEs, external partners and supply chain
• Driving governance across the bid process, including budgets, programmes and approvals
• Producing high-quality, competitive and compliant submissions within agreed timelines
• Building strong relationships with customers and key stakeholders
• Leading customer intelligence gathering and competitor analysis to strengthen proposals
• Reviewing technical, commercial and legal content to ensure quality and consistency
• Coaching and developing bid team members to deliver high performance

You’ll be an experienced work-winning professional with a strong track record of leading complex bids and delivering results.

Essential:

• Proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary bid teams
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building skills
• Experience developing compelling, customer-focused proposals
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Resilience and ability to perform in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

Desirable:

• Experience with in highways maintenance or a related engineering environment
• Degree (or equivalent) in an engineering or related discipline
• APMP Practitioner qualification

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...

Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.

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

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…