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Bid Director
October 17, 2022 | Comments Off on Bid Director
The bid director is a senior position within the work winning team, reporting to the work winning director. The bid director will collaborate with the business leads from maintenance, major projects, design, technology, and specialist highway services to convert a healthy pipeline of opportunity into contracts. The work winning team is results driven and deadline focused, with a passion to deliver innovative solutions. Within this role, you can enjoy a bonus, private healthcare, car or car allowance and even more.
Location: Homeworking with some travel to Kier offices and other sites as required.
Contract: Permanent, Fulltime
Salary: £competitive
Responsibilities
As bid director you will be responsible for ensuring the effective management of the bid process from initial identification of opportunity through to final submission and handover into delivery.
Your day to day will include:
- assure the quality of bids by ensuring that the solution has been agreed by operational colleagues
- the commercial submission is attractive
- the standard of the written narrative effectively articulates Kier Highways values and strengths
This role of bid director is great for you if have:
- understanding of central and local government workings and the highways or infrastructure sector
- a track record of leading and directing within a 'work winning' environment
- a passion to excel
- Strong resource management skills and ability to work within teams
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.
Benefits at Kier
We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- get one professional subscription funded to support your professional development
- competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave
- fantastic pension scheme
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
Who is Kier?
We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: kier.co.uk/sustainability/
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
You can see more about our D&I action plan here: kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf
Closing date: 14 November 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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