Senior Bid Manager

Our Southern Water Framework is seeking an experienced Senior Bid Manager to lead complex, high-value and strategically important opportunities across the framework on securing Stage 2 Instructions. You will bring multidisciplinary teams together and develop differentiated, deliverable solutions that support sustainable and profitable growth. Working alongside the Framework Manager and Head of Estimating, you'll lead opportunities across the full work-winning lifecycle, from early positioning through to contract award and handover to delivery.

As a Senior Bid Manager, you'll be working within the Southern Water Framework team, supporting them in securing work that aligns with our strategic priorities and delivery capability.

Your day to day will include:

Leading the portfolio of LOT 1 Water and LOT 2 Waste projects through Stage 1 ECI to successful Stage 2 Notice to Proceed, setting clear direction and pace throughout

Owning the Infrastructure Opportunity Roadmap, setting milestones, leading key meetings and maintaining momentum as requirements evolve

Integrating design, operational, programme, commercial and estimating workstreams to deliver compliant, client-focused and evidence-led tender submissions

Leading post-tender activity through to contract award, including clarifications, competitive dialogue, presentations and negotiations

Conducting structured handovers to delivery teams, ensuring tender commitments, risks and client expectations are clearly transferred and understood

This role of Senior Bid Manager is great for you if you hold:

A strong track record of leading complex, high-value infrastructure bids through the full lifecycle

Experience within a Tier 1 contractor or comparable major-project environment, leading multidisciplinary teams across technical, operational, estimating, commercial, design, procurement and proposals functions

Evidence of developing and delivering successful win strategies for competitive tenders, frameworks or strategic partnerships

Experience of bid governance, assurance and senior stakeholder approvals, with the confidence to challenge, influence and make clear recommendations

Strong understanding of infrastructure procurement and delivery models, NEC forms of contract and commercial risk, including how contract strategy, programme, risk allocation and delivery assumptions influence tender evaluation, commercial performance and successful project delivery

Visible and collaborative leadership, with the ability to bring together, motivate and hold multidisciplinary teams to account

Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with the confidence and influence to engage effectively with senior internal & external stakeholders

Commercially astute, with a clear understanding of contract, programme, cost, risk and delivery drivers

Strategic and creative thinking, with the ability to analyse evidence, challenge convention and turn ideas into differentiated and deliverable solutions

Highly organised and decisive, able to maintain pace, manage competing priorities and lead teams through demanding deadlines and change

Confident using digital and AI-enable tools responsibly to support research, collaboration, planning, analysis and production, and proactive in helping the business adopt new approaches that improve how we work

Full driving licence

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here . As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

Senior Bid Manager Job Description - Southern Water.pdf