Job Title: Bid Manager
Location: Devonport, Plymouth
Compensation: £45,400- £53,400
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65431
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 Manager at our Devonport site.
The role
As a Bid Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The Bid Manager role involves coordinating and managing cross-functional teams to develop winning bids/ proposals that meet client requirements of Compliance, Cost and Credibility.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- The Bid Manager role involves coordinating and managing cross-functional teams to develop winning bids/ proposals that meet client requirements of Compliance, Cost and Credibility.
- The Bid Manager will develop Bid Management Book Plans (response and author allocations) and Bid Management Plans (Schedules and Resource Estimates) to develop and manage authors and stakeholders Kick-Off meetings, Stand-Up meetings, and weekly bid management reports.
- The role also requires the use of Microsoft Dynamics for pipeline reporting and the extensive use Microsoft SharePoint for bid management document control.
- The Bid Manager role will support the development and delivery of the Shipley aligned Babcock Proposal Management Business Growth Lifecycle activities including Black Hat reviews (Competitor, Market, Customer Analysis), Blue Team reviews (Strategy analysis), Pink Team reviews (Storyboarding), Red Team reviews (Draft reviews), Green Team reviews (Finance / Commercial review), Gold Team reviews (pre-submission approvals) and White Team reviews (Learning from Experience) activities.
This role is full time and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3-5 days working from home.
Essential experience of the Bid Manager:
- Experience in business growth activities with demonstrable success on major programmes in defence related roles.
- Business growth professional with experience in leading the application of recognised Business Growth methodologies such as Shipley and Associates on major bids.
- Demonstrable experience is building relationships and leading pan-business cross functional teams.
- Able to manage/lead internal meetings at senior level with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Qualifications for the Bid Manager:
- Degree Qualified
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