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Senior Bid Manager
August 24, 2017 | Comments Off on Senior Bid Manager
Salary and benefits - Highly competitive salary offered plus fully extensive package, such as company car or car allowance, healthcare, company matched pension up to 7.5%, up to 10% off Kier homes, two excellent share options, plus numerous retail discounts
Location - Within 1 hour commute of Nottingham
The opportunity and team:
Kier Construction Central, based in Nottingham, is looking for an experienced Bid Manager to join a hugely talented Pre-Construction team. You' will join us as a Senior Bid Manager, and bring with you plentiful experience and knowledge of the bid management process from within a main contractor background. Reporting to the Pre-Construction Director, you will lead the bid team and ensure clients are provided with properly constructed commercial and technical submissions to an industry-leading standard.
Overall, you'll be responsible for contributing to planned and sustained business growth, facilitating the production of professionally written proposal content and overseeing other elements of the bid process.
Responsibilities:
- Constantly monitor and maintain a high knowledge and awareness of industry best practices and initiatives.
- Follow the Kier estimating and design management procedures and ensure they are implemented at each stage of the bid management/tender process.
- Chair initial bid team meeting, brief team on bid.
- Ensure all designer appointments are correct and design responsibilities and fees are agreed and understood and forecast.
- Liaise closely with the client team.
- Develop relationships and maintain close contact with key decision makers throughout the bid process.
- Establish a clear and thorough understanding of the bid requirements, including the main deliverables and the client's drivers for developing the project.
- Ensure that bids are completed in a timely fashion, providing kier with the best commercial and design options.
- Lead the bid team at internal adjudication and ensure the agenda and our procedures are completed incorporating all qualifications, clarifications and derogations.
- Ensure risk registers are produced and managed throughout the bid process.
- Develop and monitor tender period programme, circulate to bid team and ensure team buy-in.
Keys Skills and Qualifications:
- MCIOB or MRICS qualified (or similar) preferred.
- Design; planning; project management or estimating qualification.
- Excellent communication and diplomacy skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.
About Kier:
Kier Group plc. is a leading construction, property, residential and services group which invests in, builds, maintains and renews the places where we work, live and play. We operate globally across a range of sectors including defence, education, health, housing, industrials, power, transport and utilities. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, we are a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
With a network of 88 UK offices Kier offers national coverage across all of its core activities. Employing 22,000 people, Kier has the financial strength and technical expertise to undertake some of the most significant construction, civil engineering and service contracts in the country.
Kier is an equality and diversity employer