Senior Bid Manager

Location: Southampton / Hampshire / South Coast

Salary: Competitive Salary + Car Allowance + Benefits

Employment Type: Permanent

3D Personnel are recruiting on behalf of a leading Tier 1 main contractor seeking an experienced Senior Bid Manager to strengthen their regional pre-construction and work-winning team.

Our client operates across a diverse range of sectors, including defence, education, healthcare, commercial and public-sector construction, delivering both competitively tendered and negotiated projects.

This is a senior appointment requiring a commercially astute and strategically focused Bid Manager with a successful track record of securing major construction contracts.

The successful candidate will take ownership of complex tender opportunities, leading multidisciplinary bid teams and developing compelling, commercially robust submissions that maximise the likelihood of securing profitable new work.

• Lead the end-to-end bid management process from initial opportunity assessment and prequalification through to tender submission, client presentation and contract award.

• Develop and implement effective bid strategies, win themes and tender programmes aligned with client objectives and commercial requirements.

• Coordinate multidisciplinary bid teams, including estimating, design, planning, commercial, operational and specialist supply chain partners.

• Manage competitive single-stage and two-stage tenders, negotiated opportunities and public-sector framework submissions.

• Produce, review and challenge high-quality technical and qualitative tender responses to ensure submissions are accurate, compelling and fully compliant.

• Lead bid review meetings, workshops, tender interviews and presentations, ensuring alignment across all internal and external stakeholders.

• Identify and manage tender risks, opportunities, programme constraints and commercial considerations throughout the bidding process.

• Support continuous improvement of work-winning processes, bid libraries, lessons learned and tender success rates.

• Proven experience as a Senior Bid Manager or experienced Bid Manager within a Tier 1 or established UK main contractor.

• Demonstrable success managing and securing significant construction tenders and framework opportunities.

• Strong understanding of construction procurement, pre-construction processes and Design & Build contracts.

• Experience managing both single-stage and two-stage tender processes.

• Previous involvement in defence, education, healthcare, commercial or public-sector construction projects would be advantageous.

• Excellent commercial awareness with the ability to understand technical solutions, identify risks and challenge tender proposals.

• Strong leadership, communication, written presentation and stakeholder management skills.

• Relevant construction, business or technical qualification, or equivalent industry experience.

• Senior position within an established and successful Tier 1 construction business.

• Opportunity to influence regional work-winning strategy and secure major construction projects.

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

• Collaborative working environment with experienced pre-construction and operational teams.

• Long-term career development and progression opportunities.