Senior Bid Coordinator (Maternity cover FTC)

Overview

We are looking to expand our Bid team with a Senior Bid Coordinator for cover of Maternity leave.

Duties and responsibilities

Our Bids Team is now recruiting for a Senior Bid Coordinator to help support with Maternity cover for around 12 to 18 months, this will likely start in January 2026 and may have the opportunity to go permanent, depending on workload. This will be an opportunity to work across all of our sectors. You should be able to manage the process of compiling and producing high-quality submissions in order to achieve contract wins. We are open to the role being based in any of our UK offices.

• Providing tender preparation/support on tenders for all sectors but primarily for our Highways and Urban Mobility Sector Directors
• Supporting the tender preparation process for other sectors during peaks in workload when capacity allows
• Manage the entire process of preparing a successful bid submission including the management of online portals, coordination of internal and external partners, leading the development of bid responses, including bid structure, content and responses to questions and ensuring they are submitted as per tender processes and deadlines.
• Attend all tender and proposal briefings, liaising with Subject Matter Experts to develop compelling and relevant collateral.
• Maintain a high-level of market intelligence, legislative requirements and best practice in order to create winning bids
• Responsible for proofreading final material and providing technical and commercial writing skills where required
• Identifying opportunities to enhance and improve the process, whilst obtaining and sharing best practice with the team
• Develop and use creative approaches to the writing and presentation of bids
• Updating a library of company standard SQ and tender responses
• Assist in the production, graphic design/production, delivery and management of bids, PQQs, reports and presentations.

The Ideal Candidate

You will be an experienced Bid Coordinator with a great track record. You'll be able to demonstrate a passion for writing and attention to detail. In addition, you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate information technically and creatively. You will also:

• Significant years of experience working as a Bid Coordinator
• Be qualified to Degree level or time served
• Have outstanding interpersonal skills with a good degree of commercial awareness
• Be highly organised and feel comfortable in coordinating and managing bids for multiple technical teams
• Be able to stay calm and focused in a fast-paced environment while juggling multiple concurrent deadlines
• Be able to prioritize high volumes of work from a multitude of sources to meet deadlines while maintaining the highest quality standards
• Have experience with formatting, reviewing and proofreading of materials for content and grammar
• Be able to confidently make an independent presentation
• Have working knowledge of MSOffice including Word, Excel, PowerPoint