Bid Manager

Department: Communications

Location: London

Description As a Bid Manager at Foster + Partners , you will play a key role in helping win exciting new projects across the globe. Working closely with partners, architects, engineers and the wider communications team, you will lead the development of compelling bids, proposals and presentations that showcase the practice's world-class portfolio. This is an opportunity to combine strategic thinking, persuasive writing and stakeholder management in a fast-paced, creative environment.

This role is ideal if you want to:

• Lead high-profile bids and proposals that help secure landmark projects.
• Shape winning strategies and develop compelling submission narratives.
• Collaborate with senior architects, engineers, project managers and partners across the practice.
• Prepare and print accurate and high quality bid documents using Adobe InDesign, Templates or MS Word, in a deadline driven environment.
• Coordinate architects, engineers and project teams to deliver compelling OJEU responses, RFPs, RFQs and tenders.

What you will bring to the team:

• Experience in a bid management role within a design, architectural, or professional services environment.
• Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills, with the ability to develop clear, compelling, and persuasive content.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple deadlines effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• A proactive, self-motivated approach, with the confidence to build and maintain relationships at all levels.
• Exceptional attention to detail, proficiency in Adobe InDesign, and a commitment to producing consistently high-quality bid materials.
• Ability to analyse complex information from diverse sources and develop clear, coherent, and persuasive arguments.
• An interest in architecture, design, and the built environment; fluency in one or more foreign languages would be an advantage.

What we offer: We offer a benefits package designed to help you thrive professionally and personally. This includes: private medical insurance for you and your family; life assurance; personal travel insurance; access to a range of wellbeing support, comprising virtual GP services, mental health support and lifestyle coaching; as well as discount programmes for various retailers. On our London campus, we have subsidised catering facilities and host regular social events, and sports activities, for everyone to enjoy.

To support you in building a meaningful career, the practice offers opportunities to develop both your technical and non-technical skills through continuous learning, professional development support, and knowledge sharing and insights from experienced colleagues.

If our designs spark your curiosity and you would like to contribute to solving complex challenges with local and global impact, we invite you to join our team. You’ll be challenged and inspired, collaborating on extraordinary projects in an environment designed to cultivate excellence. Details on how we process and retain applicant data are set out in our PreHire Privacy Notice.