Tendering Manager

Tendering Manager

Location: Sidcup, Bexley, Greater London

Employment type: Full time

Working Hours: 40 Hours per week - Monday to Friday

What’s in it for you…

We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job you’re starting a career with real support behind it.​

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Option to buy up to 5 additional holidays
• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Career development & progression with the opportunity to earn professional qualifications
• 24/7 access to a virtual GP​ and Mental health support & counselling services​
• Cycle to Work scheme​
• Discount club - supermarkets, phone bills, gyms & more​!
• Life assurance cover​
• Long service recognition​
• Enhanced Maternity Pay
• Paid volunteering opportunities in your community​

About the role…

The Tendering Manager will lead, manage and control the end-to-end bid function for RJ Power Networks Division within Ipsum Group, ensuring that tenders are strategically positioned, technically robust, commercially competitive and fully compliant. The role has responsibility for line management of the estimating team, ownership of bid governance and process control, coordination of cross-functional contributors, and continuous improvement of bid quality, win themes, risk management and submission standards across HV/LV and related infrastructure opportunities.

As a Tendering Manager you will…

• Lead and manage the full bid lifecycle from opportunity qualification and bid/no-bid review through to submission, clarification, interview, negotiation support and handover.
• Line manage the estimating team, setting priorities, allocating workload, supporting development, reviewing outputs and ensuring estimating deadlines, quality and commercial accuracy are achieved.
• Own, maintain and improve bid processes, governance, templates, trackers, approvals and document control to ensure a consistent, auditable and efficient approach to tendering.
• Develop bid strategies, win themes, compliance matrices and submission plans that reflect client requirements, and commercial objectives of the business.
• Interpret tender documentation, specifications, drawings, pricing schedules and contractual requirements, ensuring deliverables are clearly understood and assigned.
• Coordinate estimators, engineers, SHEQ, commercial, procurement and operational stakeholders to produce accurate, compliant and compelling submissions.
• Review and challenge estimate assumptions, exclusions, qualifications, programme inputs and technical solutions to support competitive and deliverable bids.
• Lead bid programme planning, chair progress meetings, manage action logs and drive accountability so all internal and client deadlines are met.
• Prepare, review and approve quality responses, method statements, delivery strategies, case studies, CVs and supporting evidence to a high written and visual standard.
• Identify, assess and escalate technical, commercial, contractual, programme and resource risks at bid stage, ensuring appropriate mitigations and approvals are recorded.
• Act as the primary point of contact for bid queries, client clarifications, presentation preparation and post-submission feedback.
• Maintain bid performance data, lessons learned, content libraries and continuous improvement actions to improve win rates, efficiency and quality across future submissions.
• Ensure successful handover of secured work to delivery teams, including scope, pricing basis, risks, assumptions, client commitments and key tender information.

About you…

Experience managing and producing technical/commercial bids, including end-to-end bid leadership and an understanding of HV/LV networks, electrical engineering and infrastructure tendering

Ability to interpret specifications, drawings, and tender documents with strong writing skills for method statements and technical narratives

Excellent planning, organisation, time management and process control, commercial awareness, risk management and familiarity with NEC/JCT forms of contract

People management experience, including line management of estimators or bid contributors and the ability to develop bid governance, reporting, performance measures and continuous improvement processes

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Next steps...

If you’re interested in this opportunity, please apply or reach out to the Talent Team for more info!