Assistant Bid Manager

A day in the life of an Assistant Bid Manager

With support from the Bid Manager, you will take the lead on managing your own tenders up to £50m across electricity infrastructure and Natural Resources.

• Manage Own Tenders: Take day-to-day responsibility for organising and delivering smaller-to-medium infrastructure bids worth up to £50m.
• Cover Diverse Sectors: Run and support bids across both power infrastructure (substations, cables) and Natural Resources, including gas AGIs, pipeline diversions, hydrogen, and CO2 projects.
• Find New Contracts: Check procurement websites every day for new project notices, pre-qualification questionnaires (PQQs), and expressions of interest in the energy and gas sectors.
• Handle Client Questions: Log and track all official questions sent to and from utility clients during the bid, making sure your team answers them on time.
• Write Basic Answers: Draft standard text for the bids, focusing on our company history, health and safety records, gas/electricity compliance standards, and environmental policies.
• Organise Bidding Files: Keep the central bid library updated with fresh project photos, gas/power case studies, staff CVs, and successful past answers.
• Keep Meetings on Track: Book progress meetings, write down action points, and chase engineering and estimating team members to make sure they finish their parts on time.
• Gather Supplier Info: Contact specialist subcontractors and equipment suppliers to collect their safety certificates, insurance details, and signed confidentiality agreements.
• Check for Mistakes: Read through final tender packs to ensure every single form, financial sheet, and appendix requested by the client is included.
• Make Documents Look Professional & Upload: Fix the final formatting of the documents so they look polished, and manage the final upload process on client online portals before the strict deadline.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience of delivering successful high value bids across Rail / Transportation, Highways, Water, Power, Building, Oil and Gas and Tunnelling.
• Strong writing, editing and organisational skills.
• The ability to convey complex and technical issues in clear, plain English.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders externally and across the business.
• Knowledge of the bid lifecycle from tracking of OJEU notices to PQQ, Tender and Post Tender Interviews
• Experience of facilitating and updating a knowledgebase system is essential along with advanced MS Word skills & proficient in MS Office.