Proposals Manager
Building a sustainable tomorrow
We are looking for an enthusiastic proposals manager to join our successful Energy team. This is an exciting opportunity to work in one of the UK’s major infrastructure companies. As a work-winning specialist, you will work within a team that is helping to deliver resilient, low-carbon energy infrastructure.
You will be a key member of bid teams, facilitating bid win strategies and leading the writing team to produce high-scoring proposals and presentations. You will be equally happy managing proposals or working as part of a larger bid team, writing high-scoring tender responses for energy clients.
The purpose of this position is to:
- Lead the production of high-scoring, compliant PQQ and tender proposals for energy infrastructure projects and framework bids, or act as a senior writer in energy bids led by others.
- Complete high-scoring PQQ and tender proposal responses.
- Line manage other proposals professionals within the Energy sector.
- In collaboration with the Infrastructure Proposals team, champion a high standard of proposal management and writing in the energy sector and consistently deliver this.
Your team
- This is a predominantly home-based role, with 1–2 days spent in Central London or Wellingborough during key stages of the tender process.
Making Possible
Manage the development of bid proposals and other work-winning submissions for energy sector clients, following BAM guidelines and APMP principles:
- Lead the writing team to deliver high-scoring, compliant responses on time while developing and delivering tender responses allocated to you.
- Support the bid team in pre-bid preparation. Facilitate the development of a bid/proposal win strategy.
- Organise, facilitate and/or present at collaborative bid meetings and workshops needed to develop the proposal.
- Manage the shared workspace used for proposal development and finalisation.
- Define proposal deliverables and create the proposals development process and programme, including any pre-bid stage.
- Advise the Sector Preconstruction Lead for Energy on writing resource demands, progress and barriers to successful completion.
- Lead the proposal review programme and brief writers on review comments.
- Liaise with graphic designers on graphics and format requirements.
- Finalise tender responses by bid programme deadlines and collaborate with the bid team on upload.
- Lead any post-bid lessons learned exercise, focusing on the proposals element.
Act as senior writer on bids led by others
- Comply with the proposal development process and programme defined by the lead writer/proposals manager, including any pre-bid stage.
Line management
- Line manage, coach and allocate work to proposals professionals within the Energy team as required. Ensure that writing work is delivered to the right quality and on time.
- In collaboration with the Infrastructure Proposals team, identify development opportunities for the people you line manage.
Understand BAM’s offer
- Understand what differentiates BAM. Keep up-to-date with developments and innovations across the company and integrate the latest thinking into tender responses.
Contribute to knowledge management
- Promote the importance of knowledge management within the Energy function, liaising with the central knowledge management team as needed.
- Complete project, framework or business/ function case studies as requested. This may require site visits and visits to other offices.
Other duties
- Brief the Head of Infrastructure Proposals on lessons learned post-bid and from client feedback.
- Attend meetings and workshops led by the Infrastructure Proposals team as requested. This may include regular writing resource planning meetings.
- Complete other ad hoc requests from within the Energy team.
- This could include writing award submissions, value propositions and supporting client presentations.
What do you bring to the role?
- We would like to recruit a proposals manager writer who can step straight into complex bid environments.
- You will have demonstrated your ability to successfully manage complex, multidisciplinary proposals and produce high-scoring tender responses for major infrastructure clients.
- The role requires an open and adaptable approach to developing solutions, together with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- We need people who can distil the most complex engineering concepts into plain English in a logical way with our customers in mind.
- You must be happy to travel.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary
- A wide range of family-friendly policies
- Company car/car allowance/travel allowance
- 8 % matched pension contributions
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
- 26 days holiday
- 2 wellbeing days
- 1 volunteering day
- Personal and professional development
About BAM
Building a sustainable tomorrow. That’s our mission and our promise at BAM. It’s how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.
We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We’re on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.
The application process
For more information about the vacancy and our projects, please contact Monica Curl, Recruiter, BAM Infrastructure, Email: monica.curl@bam.com
BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.
