An opportunity is available for an experienced Bid Manager with relevant experience within the Rail Environment, working on SISS and Operational Telecom bids to join a leading global provider of communications and security solutions to businesses, industries and governments.

With commitment, understanding and passion at the heart of all they do, the company is a communications and security systems integrator, providing design through to site commissioning and support solutions to their customers around the world.

The company was founded in 1990 by a group of friends and remains privately owned so it’s no surprise that talented and enthusiastic people remain the core element of their business. They are proud that the culture is a mixture of passion, hard work, determination and a positive team ethos striving to achieve optimum results for their customers.

The Bid Manager will report to the Director of Sales Support and responsibilities include;

• Producing sales handover packs given to projects;
• Commercial compliancy and responsibility for bid construction;
• Ongoing technical review of supplier's responses;
• Ensuring that the Divisional Sales Managers project bid strategy is met
• Technical compliance of supplier's bids and companies proposal;
• Verification of overall technical design philosophy produced by bid engineers
• Supplier negotiation;
• Bid resource planning;
• Bid / No bid completion;
• Standardisation of Part numbering used within quotation.

The Bid Manager will have a high standard of writing for Technical Submissions with excellent grammar and language skills. They will perform well in a team environment and be able to work autonomously when required and have excellent organisational skills, the ability to prioritise and ability to work to strict deadlines. Due to the nature of the business, a sound technical and commercial knowledge is essential.

The Bid Manager will have a proven and successful track record of winning work in the infrastructure sector and ideally has excellent technical knowledge of multiple communication systems, technical knowledge of Network Rail specifications, experience of writing complex PQQ's and bid responses for Network Rail tenders.

Candidates will ideally have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline with ideally a number of years of Bid management experience.

If you feel that you are right for this role technically, but the rate, location or seniority does not suit you specifically then please still feel free to send us you CV. We are always keen to chat with you discreetly about your employment situation

Even if you are happy in your current role for now, we always welcome calls from Infrastructure professionals keen to make their introductions for future months or years. Please call Richard at Carrington West on <phone number removed> for more information