Overview
The Bid Manager will have a strong writing focus, developing technical and business content for bids and prequalification proposals and also support the bid team with the bid pipeline by managing their own bids from start to finish. The role requires writing, reviewing, and editing content, working with bid team members to produce written bid responses and presentation collateral in line with customer deadlines. The Bid Manager will be an integral part of our business strategy and development team directing our growth. It also requires strong bid management skills when owning a bid lifecycle from start to finish.
John Sisk & Son have been building excellence as a family-owned international construction company by offering trust, certainty and value to our clients whilst being at the heart of change
Responsibilities
- Review and understand the bid approach and contribute to evolving it
- Produce compelling bid material in line with the messaging to the customer
- Discuss an approach to a bid or specific question with the Head of Service and produce the agreed response for review, uplift and sign off in areas such as value propositions, methodologies, delivery approaches etc.
- Write effective, concise and compelling content while working towards multiple deadlines
- Work as a team to get accurate, high-quality information from all bid stakeholders in order to produce a comprehensive and cohesive bid is essential
- Attention to detail and the ability to extract and summarise bid documents
- Manage standalone bids (RFT’S/PQQ’s etc) of varying scales as required from start to finish, which will require excellent managerial skills
- Liaise with the Marketing team on RFT’s / PQQ’s to make sure company details are up to date and accurate.
- Design compelling visual content in line with Sisk brand guidelines with graphics experience
- A thought leader in terms of the bid process and bid material and continually look to evolve our bid messaging and approaches.
- Scheduling meetings and managing department’s contract and project filing structure
- Assisting in commercial tasks including drafting payment applications and project variations
- Co-ordinating team communications
Experience
- Experience of technical and business writing essential within a professional bid environment (3 years+)
- High attention to detail with an excellent writing ability
- Deadline driven with effective time management skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritise workload
- Design skills and ability to create compelling bid contributions
- Experience in end-to-end bid management
- Experience of design work and design packages to create visually compelling bid content and submissions desirable
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
Additional Information
- Competitive Salary with yearly increase
- 26 days holiday (option to purchase 5 more)
- Company Car or Car allowance
- Employer pension
- Competitive mileage rate
- Travel expenses
- Flexible and remote working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Professional and Educational development
Our people are at the heart of our success and our proposition to them is work with purpose, have time for life, build a career with no limits and surround yourself with great people.
Our Internal Recruitment Team fulfil all vacancies on a direct basis. Unsolicited contact by unapproved agencies (sharing speculative CVs) will not be accepted and introductory fees will not apply.
At Sisk we are committed to attracting and hiring diverse talent into our organisation. We know the confidence gap and imposter phenomenon can get in the way of meeting remarkable candidates. We also know that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't feel they meet all the criteria. Give your transferable skills the chance to tell the full story. It’s not all about your technical expertise. Don’t hold back, we’d love to hear from you.
