Job Title: Bid Coordinator
Location: Devonport, Plymouth
Compensation: Up to £38,000
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65430
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Bid Coordinator at our Devonport site.
The role
As a Bid Coordinator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We're on the lookout for a passionate and ambitious Bid Coordinator to help us grow our business and elevate their career to new heights. If you're driven, innovative, and eager to make a real impact, we want to hear from you!
Day-to-day, as a Bid Coordinator, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving successful bid outcomes by orchestrating collaboration, precision, and strategic insight across the business. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Partnering closely with the Business Development team, you’ll take ownership of managing customer procurement portals—ensuring seamless navigation, timely updates, and full compliance with bid opportunity requirements. This includes overseeing document control, customer interactions, clarification processes, and submission protocols to ensure nothing is missed.
- You’ll be the central point of coordination across diverse teams—Commercial, Finance, Project Management, Security, HR, Business Solutions, Health & Safety, Supply Chain, and Engineering—ensuring every function contributes meaningfully to the bid. You’ll also support the development of robust technical, commercial, and financial solutions in collaboration with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).
- Managing multiple concurrent bids, you’ll lead the creation and execution of Bid Management Book Plans, including author assignments and response strategies. You’ll facilitate key meetings such as Kick-Offs, stakeholder reviews, customer engagements, and daily stand-ups, while producing clear and actionable bid management reports to keep progress on track.
This role is full time and provides hybrid working arrangements with a mix of working onsite and working from home.
Essential experience of the Bid Coordinator:
- Proven Experience in Bid Coordination A solid track record of managing and supporting bids, with the ability to navigate complex documentation and stakeholder engagement with confidence and precision.
- Prior experience coordinating bids particularly within a Prime Defence Contractor environment, is highly advantageous.
- Understanding of Defence Procurement (Desirable) Familiarity with MOD procurement frameworks, commercial contracting mechanisms, and industry-specific compliance requirements will be beneficial.
Qualifications for the Bid Coordinator:
- Educated to A-Level standard or equivalent, with a focus on analytical thinking, communication, and organisational skills.
- Membership with the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP), demonstrating a proactive approach to industry best practices and continuous learning.
- APMP Certifications
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) Security Check and (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 03/09/2025