Dec
6
December 6, 2024 | Comments Off on Bid Manager
Role: Bid Manager
Salary: up to €75,000
Location: Donabate
You're a driven and experienced Bid Manager with strong negotiation skills and a positive attitude looking to join our commercial team in Donabate. You'll utilise your eye for detail and experience in the construction sector to manage the cost estimation process, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of all estimates.
Due to business growth, this is an exciting and newly created role, responsible for providing guidance and leadership to a team of 3 estimators. You will also be responsible for leading and developing professional excellence in the estimating function, accurately, on time, and in line with company policies and client requirements.
You will be responsible for implementing quality controls, developing Bid documentation, Project BOQ and budgets, evaluating contractor and supplier bids and delivering category awards. This role requires a high level of involvement in multiple projects at any one time, whilst requiring the ability to focus on exact requirements on specific opportunities.
For a full list of role responsibilities, view our role profile here.
As a BID Manager, you will have:
- Estimating experience within Construction
- Excellent level of understanding and application of costs, markups and margins
- Experience managing subcontractors
- Experience in leading, managing, developing, and motivating teams.
Even if you do not match all our `ideal' criteria we would still be very keen to receive your CV as we love developing our people and may feel that you could be developed into this role.
Why Portakabin?
As innovators in the science of building, we provide modular buildings for hire and sale, as well as supplying refurbished buildings and construction site accommodation. We deliver building solutions for organisations of any size, in sectors ranging from manufacturing, education and health to transport, utilities and construction.
Portakabin now employs more than 2,000 people across ten European countries.
You will receive:
- Option to buy 5 days of annual leave
- Working flexibly principles
- Contributory pension
- Annual bonus
As a Portakabin Employee, you will also be able to access a range of dedicated health and wellbeing services, a chance to give back to your community with an annual volunteering day off, and fully funded professional qualifications! There is also a great opportunity for career progression within Portakabin.
What's next?
We aim to respond to all applications within 7 working days. Interviews for this role will be in person at our office in Donabate.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Portakabin is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective colleagues. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives and hire great people to build talented and diverse teams.
We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the application, recruitment, and onboarding processes for candidates that require additional support and/or adjustments to be made. If you are having any difficulty applying, please contact our recruitment team on