Senior Bid Manager

About

The Role Right across infrastructure, theres a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage youre at in your career, with us youll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working? We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. Were problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure. Want to be a part of it? What will you be doing?

As our experienced Senior Bid Manager you'll lead complex, high-value bids across our Water Division. Working closely with the Growth Director, bid team, Regional Managing Directors, operational leads and commercial teams, you'll manage bids from qualification through to submission, clarification, presentation, handover and lessons learned. This is a senior work-winning role focused on bid strategy, governance, quality, commercial coordination and proposal delivery across the UK water sector.

You'll manage the Bid Coordinator and Bid Writer. Supporting their development while improving bid quality, consistency and delivery discipline. Lead multiple live and pipeline tenders, prioritising activity across risk, value, resource, deadlines and win probability. Shape pursuit strategies, customer propositions, differentiators and evidence plans with opportunity owners, senior stakeholders and operational leads. Establish clear governance, compliance, review and reporting disciplines across multiple bids to maintain quality, consistency and delivery confidence.

Coordinate technical, commercial, operational and supply chain input so submissions are competitive, deliverable and strategically aligned. Lead portfolio-level bid reviews, challenge assumptions and convert feedback into stronger content, clearer solutions and improved win themes. Line manage the Bid Writer and Bid Coordinator, setting priorities, coaching performance, allocating workload and developing capability across the bid function What youll bring Lead complex, multi-disciplinary bids across water, utilities, infrastructure or comparable public-sector procurement environments.

Apply strong bid governance, compliance, writing, editing, review and submission assurance. Manage multiple deadlines, contributors, work streams and assurance cycles in fast-paced conditions. Bring commercial awareness, customer focus, stakeholder confidence and price-to-win understanding. Coach and support bid coordinators, writers and proposal colleagues. Use Microsoft Office, shared work spaces, CRM and bid management tools; APMP desirable. This is a high-impact opportunity to join M Group Water at a pivotal point in its growth journey.

The business is strengthening its work-winning capability to support a significant AMP8 and AMP9 pipeline, deeper key account growth, cross-Group collaboration and expansion into higher-value, digitally enabled water services. You'll play a central role in converting strategic opportunities into profitable, deliverable wins, while building the discipline, pace and quality of the bid function.

Whats in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
Contributory pension scheme Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Employee assistance programme My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts Life assurance Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave Reward and recognition scheme Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!

In addition, this role offers;
Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme Private health care family cover Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability…