Job Title: Bid Coordinator
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Excellent Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68539
Shape the future of defence and engineering – one bid at a time
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Bid Coordinator at any of our main UK locations, with flexible working arrangements.
The role
As a Bid Coordinator, you’ll be at the heart of our Business Winning function, helping to shape high-quality, compliant bids that directly support Babcock’s mission to deliver critical services across defence, aerospace, and engineering. This is a dynamic and rewarding opportunity to make a real impact, enhancing our ability to win new contracts and grow our influence in the industry.
You’ll be joining a team that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. This role offers excellent exposure to strategic projects and stakeholders across the business, making it a fantastic platform for career development and personal growth.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
• Monitoring tender portals and managing bid schedules and documentation
• Coordinating input from internal teams to build compelling, compliant submissions
• Supporting bid meetings, workshops, and review processes
• Tracking progress, budgets, and lessons learned to improve future bids
• Maintaining bid tools and contributing to continuous improvement across the Business Winning function
The role is based at any of our main UK locations, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37.5 hours per week. Flexible working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Bid Coordinator:
• Understanding of tendering and capture processes, with proven experience
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan, multi-task and meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills, able to motivate others towards a common goal
• High attention to detail and a positive, solution-focused attitude
Qualifications for the Bid Coordinator:
• Educated to A-Level or equivalent
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (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: 24/10/2025