Bid Manager in Bath

You will manage, coach, and mentor a team of bid co-ordinators, ensuring they have the right skillset to successfully coordinate bids led by our key UK-based working winning community.

As a crucial element of this role, you will take ownership of the entire bid process. Leveraging best practice sources such as APMP, you’ll enhance efficiency and streamline procedures.

The role comes with the flexibility to be based in either our Bath or London office and offers a hybrid working schedule, requiring - days in the office per week.

This role will form part of a wider Business Development team based across the Bath, London, Leeds, Manchester, and Edinburgh offices, therefore willingness and ability to travel to these offices occasionally is required.

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.

Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything – from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to our fantastic Bid & Business Development team.

We are looking for a passionate candidate who can inspire and motivate at every level.

Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, excellent learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive.

You’ll be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that’s the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make impact - and leave real legacy. 

Prioritise your time on strategic bid pursuits whenever possible, recognising the impact on bid spending when more senior resources are allocated to lower-value bids.

Ensure that all bids adhere to the Bid-No-Bid process before committing support, providing input, and conducting necessary research.

As part of your responsibilities, you will chair the Bid-No-Bid Board meeting alongside the Director of UK Bid Management. Additionally, oversee the entire bid process, including informed Bid-No-Bid discussions, structured Bid Kick-Off meetings, timely Bid Reviews pre-submission, and post-submission Lessons Learned feedback gathering.

Regularly liaise with the Commercial and Legal Team (CLT) to keep them informed of our bidding activity and potential contractual, legislative, or risk-related aspects.

Interview technical team members to create bespoke content for submissions, ensuring alignment with client requirements, agreed themes, and the Buro Happold brand.

Lastly, rigorously assess all content to meet the expected standard and score.

Provide coaching and mentoring support to your direct reports and junior members of the wider bid team as needed.

Recognise the team’s skillset and leverage it to benefit the business by allocating relevant resources to specific bids based on requirements.

Extend your impact beyond the bid team by educating both technical and non-technical staff on effective bid management and guiding them through the process.

As the CRM champion, your responsibilities include:

Accurately recording bid progress and details in the system.

Leading bid touchdown meetings to gain early insights into potential opportunities and strategic positioning.

Collaborating with project operations and finance teams to ensure consistent fee information across systems and consider broader business factors, such as resource capacity, during Bid-No-Bid reviews

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.   

Apply today and be a part of our legacy.

LI-CO LI-Hybrid

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. 

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.