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Senior Bid Manager
June 23, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Bid Manager
Location: National/agile working - ideally able to get to our London &/or Rushden offices
Business area: Kier Construction - Strategic Projects
Contract: Full time/ able to consider part time working
Salary: Competitive salary + industry leading benefits
Kier isn't just built on success. We're built on people. With our expertise and ambition to lead the way, there has never been a better time to be a part of our story.
Your world. Your career. Your Kier.
Being one of the leading regional builders in the UK means many things to the team here at Kier Group. Our people are trusted to deliver projects of all sizes and complexities, across very diverse sectors, throughout the country. Join us and you could be involved in building anything from a strategic asset costing hundreds of millions of pounds, to a small-budget school extension that creates priceless classroom space. Whatever you do, you'll be making a difference on projects that matter, every day of your working life.
Key responsibilities?
You will have overall management of the bid, in order to secure major projects (£100m+) opportunities within the Kier Strategic projects business, across sectors including (but not limited to) Custodial, Healthcare, Defence and Commercial; ensuring compliance with internal governance and developing a winning strategy prior to tender, of which is concise, and understood by the wider team. While working closely with the Submissions team, you will offer high quality responses to the bid questions, as well as having a thorough understanding of the client's key drivers; through research and early engagement with the clients team and stakeholders. You will also lead the project management of the 2nd stage process to ensure client satisfaction, delivery on budget and programme, with the profit plan secured.
What?do?we need from you?? ??
We are looking for candidates with extensive experience in Bid Strategy, with excellent communication and negotiation skills. You will have good project management skills as well as a thorough understanding of risk analysis. We are also looking for candidates who hold a relevant construction related qualification (Degree, HNC or similar) and have successful experience on bidding D&B projects of £100m+.
What we offer?
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 benefits include:
- New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
- A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- A fantastic matched pension scheme
- Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans.
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands and many many more!
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing
Your chapter can start now, and we can build our inspiring story, together.
Closing Date: 23rd July 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
Recruitment agencies - we are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. The recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL should we require assistance. For further information, visit our .
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these.