Bid Manager
| Posting date: | 31 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £48,000 to £50,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Pension, Holiday |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2026 |
| Location: | Honiton, South West, EX14 1LX |
| Company: | Meridian Business Support |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 59585201 |
Summary
Bid Manager
The Opportunity:
Our successful Engineering client, with customers in the defence, public and charity sectors, are looking for an experienced Bid Manager to identify sales opportunities and submit suitable bids to increase revenue and business pipeline. The Bid Manager (who may have previously worked as a Proposals Engineer or Internal Sales Manager) will have a technical understanding of engineering projects to enable them to support the Head of Sales in the preparation and delivery of bids.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support all bid activities and be the focal point within the Sales Team for routine bid activity including monitoring the portals, creating comprehensive bids, communicating with the design, procurement and production teams to create the bids, and maintaining contact with potential customes.
- Completing associated project planning and obtaining job costings from colleauges.
- Collate reporting information on status (progress, performance, quality, cost, schedule etc) of major project bids for internal reviews.
- Provide the Head of Sales with regular reports of programme/project bid risks, issues, successes and failures.
- Maintaining, updating, communicating and ensuring compliance with Defence bid/capture processes.
- Daily scanning of Public Procurement portals for new business opportunities.
Skills Required:
- Experience of sales, bidding and project management processes.
- Good understanding of contracts and commercial awareness, ideally gained with the defence or public sectors.
- Excellent communication skills external and internally.
- The ability to manage multiple sales pipelines and projects, using MS Projects.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office suite of software (specifically Word, Powerpoint and Excel, Project.
Associated Benefits:
Pension
23 Days holiday pro rata + Bank holidays
Group Life Cover
Working Hours:
40 hour week, Mon-Thur 8-5, Fri 8-12
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
The Opportunity:
Our successful Engineering client, with customers in the defence, public and charity sectors, are looking for an experienced Bid Manager to identify sales opportunities and submit suitable bids to increase revenue and business pipeline. The Bid Manager (who may have previously worked as a Proposals Engineer or Internal Sales Manager) will have a technical understanding of engineering projects to enable them to support the Head of Sales in the preparation and delivery of bids.
Job Responsibilities:
- Support all bid activities and be the focal point within the Sales Team for routine bid activity including monitoring the portals, creating comprehensive bids, communicating with the design, procurement and production teams to create the bids, and maintaining contact with potential customes.
- Completing associated project planning and obtaining job costings from colleauges.
- Collate reporting information on status (progress, performance, quality, cost, schedule etc) of major project bids for internal reviews.
- Provide the Head of Sales with regular reports of programme/project bid risks, issues, successes and failures.
- Maintaining, updating, communicating and ensuring compliance with Defence bid/capture processes.
- Daily scanning of Public Procurement portals for new business opportunities.
Skills Required:
- Experience of sales, bidding and project management processes.
- Good understanding of contracts and commercial awareness, ideally gained with the defence or public sectors.
- Excellent communication skills external and internally.
- The ability to manage multiple sales pipelines and projects, using MS Projects.
- Competent user of Microsoft Office suite of software (specifically Word, Powerpoint and Excel, Project.
Associated Benefits:
Pension
23 Days holiday pro rata + Bank holidays
Group Life Cover
Working Hours:
40 hour week, Mon-Thur 8-5, Fri 8-12
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
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