Job Title: Bid Manager
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: GG7 £56,570 - £66,229
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67378
Shape the Future of Defence and Engineering
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 Manager at Rosyth Business Park, near Dunfermline, Fife.
The role
As a Bid Manager, you’ll be at the heart of our business growth strategy—leading cross-functional teams to deliver winning proposals that support some of the UK’s most critical defence and engineering programmes. This is a dynamic and rewarding opportunity to influence major projects, drive innovation, and make a real impact on national security and global safety.
Day to day you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Leading and coordinating bid teams to develop compliant, cost-effective, and credible proposals.
- Creating and managing Bid Management Plans, schedules, and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Using Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint for pipeline reporting and document control.
- Driving Shipley-aligned proposal lifecycle activities including strategy and review sessions.
- Managing governance processes across Babcock’s Business Growth Lifecycle, including Gate reviews and approvals.
You’ll be based at Rosyth Royal Dockyard Limited (RRDL), working 36 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available, with 2–3 days onsite and 1–2 days from home. Occasional travel to other Babcock sites such as Devonport and Bristol may be required.
Essential experience of the Bid Manager:
- Proven success in business growth activities within defence or related sectors.
- Experience applying recognised methodologies such as Shipley on major bids.
- Ability to lead internal meetings at senior levels.
- Experience as a Bid Manager.
Qualifications for the Bid Manager:
- Ideally degree qualified, but not essential.
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: 22/09/2025