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Bid Manager
October 20, 2021 | Comments Off on Bid Manager
Salary: Competitive
Location: Flexible
Business area: Utilities
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
From Telecoms to Power, from Lands' End to John O'Groats
Kier Group is one of the Top 3 utility providers here in the UK - helping connect, heat and power the country from Lands' End to John O'Groats. Our sector expertise stretches across telecoms, gas and water, working with emerging technologies to the most exacting standards of safety and quality. What does it take to join this team that keeps water running for over 15 million homes and businesses, maintaining 65km of gas pipes and installing one million metres of fibre optic cable every year? It takes people like you.
Key Responsibilities
As a Bid Manager, you have overall responsibility for managing bid proposals across all groups of Utilities (Water, Power, Gas, Telecoms), maximising conversion rates. Ensuring compliance with internal governance, developing a winning strategy prior to tender, and developing submissions with bid teams to ensure clients are provided with commercial and technical submissions within deadlines, to an industry leading standard.
You will be responsible for implementing business-winning bid plans to secure new business opportunities for Kier Utilities, working the business development team, MDs, and operational, estimating, and commercial teams in achieving their targets.
In this role, you will manage bid strategies for everyone to understand their requirements and timescales as well as managing Client relationships. You will lead workshops and to develop bid strategies and key messaging and produce monthly reports against the bid pipeline.
What do we need from you?
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have a background working for a main contractor or consultant, and experience within the utilities business sector.
You will have the ability to specify, review and edit bid content from engineering and other professional personnel.
In this role, you must have strong people management skills, you will be able to lead a winning team and be a team player. You must have strong communication, organisational, and time management skills, with good IT knowledge and knowledge of InDesign or similar platforms.
What will you receive?
You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday) together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan). To find out more about the rewards and benefits at Kier please visit the Kier website rewards-benefits section.
Flexible/Agile Working
At Kier we believe that - wherever we can, whether office or site-based - we should embrace an agile/flexible approach to working. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to do this. Please don't hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around agile working and flexibility - We'll do our best to support you.
Pre-employment checks
It's worth remembering that if you are successful, we'll undertake the relevant / standard pre-employment checks after you have been offered a job. This includes taking up your references, verifying your right to work in the UK, verifying your driving licence (if applicable) and a health assessment.
Make the journey. Leave a legacy.
Being part of Kier means living our values of being Collaborative, Trusted and Focused. We all have the potential to shape our world, and it's through these values that we will leave a lasting legacy. Bring your talent and ambition to Kier and you will be given the scope and opportunity to invest in your own future, to build your expertise and contribute to a rich and diverse culture.
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all of our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. If you'd like to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Kier, you can contact the team by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these.
Recruitment Agencies - opportunities at Kier are managed by our internal recruitment team. We are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. If there is a specific business need a member of the recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL to ensure all CV's are uploaded onto our portal to be considered. For further information, visit our Careers Help page
We reserve the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. It is encouraged that you complete the application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.