Senior Bid Manager

Expleo is a global engineering, technology and consulting service provider that partners with leading organisations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses.

Expleo boasts an extensive global footprint, powered by 19,000 highly skilled experts delivering value in 50 countries and generating more than €1.4 billion in revenue.

As a Senior Bid Manager, you will lead and manage complex bid and proposal activities, working closely with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality, competitive submissions across a range of projects. You will ensure that all bid deliverables are fully compliant with client requirements, contractual terms, industry standards, and internal governance processes, while driving value, risk management, and commercial excellence throughout the bid lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end bid management across multiple concurrent opportunities, ensuring delivery to cost, quality, and schedule
• Ability to manage multiple bids simultaneously (volume of bids is more important than scale of bids)
• Apply Shipley best-practice methodology, including planning, governance, reviews, and compliance management
• Rapidly adapt to and operate within the client Lifecycle bid process, maintaining strong governance and audit trails
• Plan and manage bid schedules, resources, and review cycles
• Coordinate inputs from engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and supply chain teams
• Ensure full compliance with customer requirements and internal governance standards
• Identify and manage bid risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating where appropriate

Essential Skills

• Proven track record of delivering complex proposals under short timescales and delivering complex and challenging projects; ‘lead by example’
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills in communication, delegation and motivation.
• To have good analytical skills to be able to challenge the core team constantly, achieving best value for the customer.
• Good communication skills to enable discussion and presentation of complex issues and solutions
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Stakeholder Management

Experience

• Proven experience as a Senior Bid Manager delivering multiple concurrent bids in a Shipley-based environment

What Do I Need Before I Apply

• Comfortable working on-site in Bristol two days per week
• SC clearance and available at short notice

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges

• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects

• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses

• Competitive company benefits

• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:

• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible

• Communicating and promoting vacancies

• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job

• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required

• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”.

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive