Bid Manager, Business

Title: Bid Manager

Location: Warrington

As a Bid Manager within GTDI, you will play a key role in securing important opportunities across our digital infrastructure portfolio and our growing markets. As we expand into areas such as EV charging, renewable energy, and defence/secure estates, we welcome candidates with proven bid management experience in any relevant sector.

You’ll work within Galliford Try’s bid governance framework, helping shape clear, deliverable solutions and producing high ‑ quality submissions that demonstrate our capabilities.

• Lead and manage key project and framework bids
• Take ownership of opportunity ‑ specific Bid Teams
• Be a main point of contact for colleagues and clients
• Set and guide bid strategy, win themes, programmes, and deliverables
• Lead tender settlement and client engagement activity
• Review bid documents (PQQ/SSQ/ITT) and bring together the right team
• Coordinate inputs across technical, commercial, delivery, legal, and supply chain functions
• Support risk identification, mitigation, and alternative approaches
• Contribute to solution development and delivery strategies
• Produce clear, compelling, and inclusive bid submissions
• Support bid/no ‑ bid decisions and governance processes
• Capture lessons learned and help drive continuous improvement

• Experience managing bids, tenders, or proposals
• Strong understanding of structured procurement processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to turn technical and commercial content into persuasive responses
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise
• Commercial awareness and understanding of risk

Experience in one or more of the following areas is welcome:

• EV charging infrastructure
• Renewable or energy solutions
• Defence, secure estates, or regulated environments
• NEC, frameworks, or public sector procurement

With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment.

With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Competitive family leave policy
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees, and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading construction groups with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.

We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.

Galliford Try is a leading UK Construction group. The business is split into four distinct divisions, Infrastructure, Building, Environment and Specialist Services, covering a range of specialist work in water, highways, telecoms, security, commercial, custodial, education, health, interiors, and leisure,…