Bid Manager - Leisure
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 20 Awst 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £50000-55000 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 05 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Home Based with Travel, Home Based |
| Cwmni: | Serco Limited |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 304132-43599194 |
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Serco Limited
Bid Manager
- LeisureLocation: Home Based with frequent UK-wide travel
Salary: Circa £55,000 plus company car, bonus and company benefits
Serco Leisure works in partnership with public sector bodies across the UK to deliver high-quality, customer-focused leisure services that improve health, wellbeing, and community engagement. We are looking for a Bid Manager with proven experience in leading and supporting bids of significant complexity and scale, specifically within the leisure sector.
As the Bid Manager you will play a pivotal role in securing new contracts and retaining existing ones across our UK leisure portfolio. You will ensure that bids progressed within the business are well understood, qualified and aligned to the business strategy to ensure high quality outcomes for our customers and strong win rates across our target markets.
Reporting to the Bid Director, you will possess both technical management skills in the bidding arena s, recognising the importance of sustaining bid teams with the capability and capacity to produce winning results.
Your main responsibilities
· Oversee and deliver compelling and coherent bid submissions.
· Deliver allocated bids in line with allocation from Business Unit Bid Director
· Develop and maintain effective Bid Plans that leverage the Business Development activity set out within the Capture Plan
· Identify and resource team requirements from within Serco; set out requirement for external resourcing and participate in sourcing process.
· Lead (where appropriate for scale of deal) and support customer engagement including Clarification Questions, dialogue and negotiation and where appropriate presentations.
· Lead or support hand over to operations from the Bid Team once bid is won, ensuring that a full and robust understanding of all aspects of the deal is embedded within the Contract Team, maximising probability of successful execution.
· Understand Serco’s solutions and assesses them against customer requirements / needs, identifying gaps and implementing individual strategies to address these for each specific opportunity.
What you’ll need to do the role
- Sustained bid experience within the leisure industry as a Bid Manager or in another key role within a Bid Team or process, or significant senior management experience within the sector with the aptitude and interest to develop bidding expertise.
- Ability to create and monitor bid budgets, identifying opportunities and risks and taking appropriate action as a result.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – active listening, ability to articulate customer’s environment and bid requirements to all management levels.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Word at an intermediate/advanced level.
- Ability to operate successfully in a challenging, changeable role, balancing autonomy and accountability.
· Experience in structured methodologies such as Prince2, Shipley, Miller Heiman are not essential but advantageous.
· Driving License is essential.
Why Serco
Meaningful and vital work: The nature of our business means you will do interesting work that matters – delivering essential services that touch people’s live.
A world of opportunity: Our diverse UK-wide operations offer unrivalled opportunities to learn and develop. You’ll be able to broaden your experience and apply your skills in new ways.
Great people: We are a motivated team who will encourage you and help you to succeed. You’ll have the resources you need to do your job in a diverse and supportive environment.
What we offer
- Holidays: Up to 25 days plus bank holidays
- Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Bonus: A performance-based bonus scheme up to 10%
- Company car: A company car
- Private medical insurance
- Training and development: A wide range of learning opportunities with over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
- Health and wellbeing: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, Simplyhealth cash plans to claim back money towards healthcare costs, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres.
- Discounts: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel.
- ShareSave scheme: Helps you save regularly with the choice to buy Serco shares at a discount at the end of your savings period.
- Employee networks: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network and be part of a community.
Bid Manager
- LeisureLocation: Home Based with frequent UK-wide travel
Salary: Circa £55,000 plus company car, bonus and company benefits
Serco Leisure works in partnership with public sector bodies across the UK to deliver high-quality, customer-focused leisure services that improve health, wellbeing, and community engagement. We are looking for a Bid Manager with proven experience in leading and supporting bids of significant complexity and scale, specifically within the leisure sector.
As the Bid Manager you will play a pivotal role in securing new contracts and retaining existing ones across our UK leisure portfolio. You will ensure that bids progressed within the business are well understood, qualified and aligned to the business strategy to ensure high quality outcomes for our customers and strong win rates across our target markets.
Reporting to the Bid Director, you will possess both technical management skills in the bidding arena s, recognising the importance of sustaining bid teams with the capability and capacity to produce winning results.
Your main responsibilities
· Oversee and deliver compelling and coherent bid submissions.
· Deliver allocated bids in line with allocation from Business Unit Bid Director
· Develop and maintain effective Bid Plans that leverage the Business Development activity set out within the Capture Plan
· Identify and resource team requirements from within Serco; set out requirement for external resourcing and participate in sourcing process.
· Lead (where appropriate for scale of deal) and support customer engagement including Clarification Questions, dialogue and negotiation and where appropriate presentations.
· Lead or support hand over to operations from the Bid Team once bid is won, ensuring that a full and robust understanding of all aspects of the deal is embedded within the Contract Team, maximising probability of successful execution.
· Understand Serco’s solutions and assesses them against customer requirements / needs, identifying gaps and implementing individual strategies to address these for each specific opportunity.
What you’ll need to do the role
- Sustained bid experience within the leisure industry as a Bid Manager or in another key role within a Bid Team or process, or significant senior management experience within the sector with the aptitude and interest to develop bidding expertise.
- Ability to create and monitor bid budgets, identifying opportunities and risks and taking appropriate action as a result.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills – active listening, ability to articulate customer’s environment and bid requirements to all management levels.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Word at an intermediate/advanced level.
- Ability to operate successfully in a challenging, changeable role, balancing autonomy and accountability.
· Experience in structured methodologies such as Prince2, Shipley, Miller Heiman are not essential but advantageous.
· Driving License is essential.
Why Serco
Meaningful and vital work: The nature of our business means you will do interesting work that matters – delivering essential services that touch people’s live.
A world of opportunity: Our diverse UK-wide operations offer unrivalled opportunities to learn and develop. You’ll be able to broaden your experience and apply your skills in new ways.
Great people: We are a motivated team who will encourage you and help you to succeed. You’ll have the resources you need to do your job in a diverse and supportive environment.
What we offer
- Holidays: Up to 25 days plus bank holidays
- Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Bonus: A performance-based bonus scheme up to 10%
- Company car: A company car
- Private medical insurance
- Training and development: A wide range of learning opportunities with over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
- Health and wellbeing: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, Simplyhealth cash plans to claim back money towards healthcare costs, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres.
- Discounts: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel.
- ShareSave scheme: Helps you save regularly with the choice to buy Serco shares at a discount at the end of your savings period.
- Employee networks: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network and be part of a community.
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