Senior Bid Co-ordinator
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Manage the end-to-end bid process from opportunity identification through to submission, ensuring submissions are compliant and aligned with evaluation criteria. Develop bid plans, responsibility matrices, and high-quality submission documents using Microsoft Office and Adobe InDesign while coordinating contributions from multiple stakeholders. Maintain and monitor opportunity pipelines, conduct market research and competitor analysis, and prepare capability statements and presentation materials for client pitches. Lead lessons learned reviews to support continuous improvement initiatives and maintain the Infrastructure bid library with current content on ESG, sustainability, and social value. Contribute to enhancing bid tools, templates, and processes while engaging senior stakeholders to secure new business across public and private sectors.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience in business development, bids or proposals within professional services, consultancy, infrastructure, construction or the built environment
- Proven experience managing complex bids from inception to submission
- Strong understanding of public sector procurement processes and frameworks
- Excellent written communication, copywriting, editing and proofreading skills
- Strong project management and organisational abilities
- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders and competing deadlines
- High attention to detail and commitment to quality
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word and PowerPoint
- Confident communicator with the ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders
- Resilient, proactive and solutions-focused approach
Desired Qualifications
- Experience within infrastructure, major projects, construction consultancy or engineering sectors
- Knowledge of procurement portals such as Ariba, Delta, Proactis and Jaggaer
- Adobe InDesign experience
- Understanding of client pursuit planning and wider business development practices
- Experience supporting interviews, presentations and client engagement activities
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