Bid Manager
| Posting date: | 12 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | c£55,000 dependent upon experience, plus car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 April 2026 |
| Location: | Nuneaton |
| Company: | Unipart Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1972 |
Summary
Job Advert
Bid Manager
Blended / remote working
c£55,000 dependent upon experience, plus car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme,
wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Role
As a Bid Manager at Unipart you will spearhead the end-to-end bid management process, transforming customer requirements into
high-impact, winning tender responses across Unipart’s diverse sectors and capabilities.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
* Lead an extended team through the defined bid management process for each new business opportunity, ensuring all tenders adhere
to the established gateways and stakeholder RACI.
* Be accountable for the allocated response to public and private tenders and proposals, across any of our sectors and
capabilities.
* Write and design articulate, concise customer-centric proposals, presentations and other documentation as required.
* Manage the end-to end production of bid documents and ensure that all proposals are completed on time and comply fully with the
customer specification and requirements.
* Ensure a high-quality, aesthetically appealing look and feel of proposal documents.
* Facilitate ‘Value Proposition’ sessions, to ensure customer-centric and rationalised win strategies are developed and
integrated into submission documents.
* Lead ‘capture’ bidding activity across appropriate strategic opportunities to ensure Unipart is in an optimal position to win
ahead of tender receipt. This will include: win strategy and pricing position to win; market analysis; competitive intelligence
gathering; conceptual solution design; and value propositions.
* Track and manage key outputs, actions and clarifications throughout the bid process.
* Lead tender reviews meetings to drive collaborative sessions with the wider stakeholder team.
* Work with the wider bid management team on projects to improve bidding processes.
* Act as an ambassador for bid management practices across the wider Unipart Group.
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this
role!
* Strong bid management experience in both the public and private sector.
* The ability to confidently and persuasively write to a high level.
* Articulate, with strong verbal and presentation skills.
* A proficient user of Microsoft Office, in particular PowerPoint and Word.
* Experience operating at a senior level and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
* Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and manage resources/output timelines.
* Used to working under pressure and to challenging deadlines with energy and passion, and will have the flexibility to deal with
change.
* Experience in the field of supply chain logistics and external bid training (for instance, Shipley or APMP would be
advantageous).
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of
opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the
grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or
civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected
characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment
which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of
yourself and do your best work every day.
Bid Manager
Blended / remote working
c£55,000 dependent upon experience, plus car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme,
wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Role
As a Bid Manager at Unipart you will spearhead the end-to-end bid management process, transforming customer requirements into
high-impact, winning tender responses across Unipart’s diverse sectors and capabilities.
As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:
* Lead an extended team through the defined bid management process for each new business opportunity, ensuring all tenders adhere
to the established gateways and stakeholder RACI.
* Be accountable for the allocated response to public and private tenders and proposals, across any of our sectors and
capabilities.
* Write and design articulate, concise customer-centric proposals, presentations and other documentation as required.
* Manage the end-to end production of bid documents and ensure that all proposals are completed on time and comply fully with the
customer specification and requirements.
* Ensure a high-quality, aesthetically appealing look and feel of proposal documents.
* Facilitate ‘Value Proposition’ sessions, to ensure customer-centric and rationalised win strategies are developed and
integrated into submission documents.
* Lead ‘capture’ bidding activity across appropriate strategic opportunities to ensure Unipart is in an optimal position to win
ahead of tender receipt. This will include: win strategy and pricing position to win; market analysis; competitive intelligence
gathering; conceptual solution design; and value propositions.
* Track and manage key outputs, actions and clarifications throughout the bid process.
* Lead tender reviews meetings to drive collaborative sessions with the wider stakeholder team.
* Work with the wider bid management team on projects to improve bidding processes.
* Act as an ambassador for bid management practices across the wider Unipart Group.
About You
We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this
role!
* Strong bid management experience in both the public and private sector.
* The ability to confidently and persuasively write to a high level.
* Articulate, with strong verbal and presentation skills.
* A proficient user of Microsoft Office, in particular PowerPoint and Word.
* Experience operating at a senior level and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders.
* Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and manage resources/output timelines.
* Used to working under pressure and to challenging deadlines with energy and passion, and will have the flexibility to deal with
change.
* Experience in the field of supply chain logistics and external bid training (for instance, Shipley or APMP would be
advantageous).
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of
opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the
grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or
civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected
characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment
which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of
yourself and do your best work every day.