Senior Bid Manager

About us
Lendlease are a globally integrated real estate group, we draw on decades of experience and the latest thinking in development, design, placemaking, construction and investments to deliver iconic and enormously successful places. 

With UK roots going back over 100 years, Lendlease’s Construction business brings deep knowledge and capability to all that we do. We are a trusted construction partner to many of the most respected private and public sector organisations in the UK.

Whether a new build, a repurposed or reconstructed property, a heritage restoration or a multi-phased development, our clients trust us to drive delivery, deal with complexity, and provide strategic and long-term economic and social value with innovative and sustainable solutions.

The role

As Senior Bid Manager you will lead both bid teams and bid process – from development of initial win strategies through to submission and successful contract award. The role combines strategic competencies with hands on detailed delivery of complex tenders with a particular focus on public sector bids.

The role requires the individual to understand, manage and deliver competitive bids. They will understand the objectives of the Work Winning team and will respond to them mainly through bid management and the production of compelling materials through bid and proposal management, and of delivering well written responses.
 

What will you do?
 

• Interrogate ops teams to extract detail behind project specific questions.
• Populate capture plans based on feedback from Operations teams and other data (e.g. corporate and trade websites).
• Create compelling supporting documentation for certain negotiated opportunities.
• Interrogate bid/pqq and supporting documents to understand project and requirements.
• Identify an approach to defining bid strategy and win themes.
• Clear communications with the operations team.
• Manage the delivery of bids or parts of bids
• Lead answer planning sessions and develop bid answer structures to define the most compelling and engaging response to client.
• Write impactful, tailored, technically differentiated bids.
• Identify and re-work existing pre-written content where relevant.
• Deliver completed written bid responses against agreed deadlines.
• Re-write / edit proposal responses from a variety of stakeholders with the business.
• Communicate and influence at a senior level.

You will bring

• Experience of designing and implementing work winning initiatives and/or expert knowledge and in-depth understanding of customer and bid management.
• Extensive experience of developing bid strategies and win themes; writing bids, marketing materials and other customer facing collateral in line with agreed deadlines; and producing high quality, visual impactful collateral.
• Skilled in related disciplines such as leading answer planning sessions with bid team members, drafting compelling prose, and editing written content provided by others.
• Demonstrable capabilities in the interpretation of public sector scoring/marking criteria in tenders to structure answers that are clear and fully answer the question.
• Problem solving, technical and analytical skills with the ability to work through complex issues and guide and coach others in the resolution of problems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills to influence and build relationships with key stakeholders.
   

What we provide

• Car allowance
• Flexible and hybrid work options
• Industry leading pension scheme
• Private medical health benefit and dental plan options
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• Wellbeing leave
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
• 24/7 confidential Employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nation wide

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Belong at Lendlease

We offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equal treatment and equal opportunity are just the norm.

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Lendlease is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in our industry including those who self-identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/ or disabled.