Bid Manager, Management

We're looking for a Bid Manager to join our Facilities Management team, reporting to the Growth Director

Location: Basingstoke, London, Sheffield or Cardiff - remote working from home available, with occasional travel to the office required.
Hours: Full time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

As a Bid Manager, you'll play a key role in shaping and winning exciting Hard FM and Total Facilities Management opportunities. Working closely with our operational, commercial and bid teams, you'll develop compelling solutions that meet client needs whilst ensuring they're operationally deliverable and commercially sound. This is an excellent opportunity to build meaningful client relationships, contribute to strategic growth, and make a real impact on how we deliver facilities management services across multiple sectors.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Bid Manager, you'll be working within our Regional Operations and Facilities Management teams, supporting them in winning sustainable contracts. Your day to day will include:

• Building and maintaining a qualified pipeline across key sectors including local and central government, healthcare, higher education, and commercial estates
• Leading our opportunity qualification criteria, ensuring alignment with our capabilities and strategic objectives
• Collaborating with our operational teams to develop credible service solutions covering maintenance, compliance, and asset management
• Working alongside commercial teams to complete pricing models
• Building trusted relationships with client stakeholders and ensuring smooth handovers into mobilisation and delivery

What are we looking for?

This role of Bid Manager is great for you if:

• You have proven experience in business development, work winning or bid shaping within Hard engineering services and building services
• You can demonstrate a successful track record of contributing to or leading FM bids and contract awards
• You have commercial awareness with experience contributing to pricing, risk assessment and value propositions
• You're a confident communicator with strong written skills, able to translate client requirements into clear, deliverable solutions

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies.

You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case‑by‑case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.