Bid Manager
RJ McLeod is one of Scotland's leading civil engineering contractors, with extensive experience in renewable energy, highways, and marine infrastructure projects.
Your main purpose as a Bid Manager will be producing and submitting winning bids that capture and address the clients’ needs. You will do this with passion and flair to support an upward trending tender scoring and success rate.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Management and completion of quality bidding activities from start to finish.
- Working with any bid writers to produce exceptionally written bid and proposals.
- Using effective project planning to manage deadlines including production planning and question allocation.
- Attending client bid sessions and workshops where required.
- Develop value engineering and cost effective solutions
- Managing the quality element of the bid, providing a clear brief to any supporting writers
- Communicating effectively at all levels to get the information you need.
- Ensuring bid folders are up to date and managed appropriately.
- Completion of Invitation to Tenders (ITT).
Skills and Experience
- A passion for working in bid and proposals
- Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills with meticulous attention to detail
- Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to work under pressure and adhere to strict deadlines
- Excellent organisational skills are essential
Company Information:
OCU leads the way in end-to-end infrastructure engineering in the utilities, digital, and energy markets, specialising in safely and efficiently delivering complex client requirements. Our breadth of capabilities and depth of operational capacity, paired with our cutting-edge technology, ensure that we are not just part of the market; we are leading it.
Working directly with many of the country’s leading power, energy transition, water, telecoms and digital clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team.
- Division
- RJ McLeod
- Locations
- Glasgow
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment Status
- PAYE/Staff
Glasgow
Our People, our Culture, our Values
As a business, we pride ourselves on operating a ‘People First’ culture, striving to constantly deliver on our 5 core company values.
1. We Care about Safety - It is our goal for everyone working on our behalf to go home healthy and safe at the end of each and every day.
2. We lead with Integrity - Integrity is central to everything we do. Without it, we wouldn’t have the relationships with our clients, nor would we have built an enviable reputation within the industry.
3. We strive to be Better everyday - We take pride in everything we do. This involves a meticulous approach to our work, endeavouring to make each day better than the last.
4. We make a Positive Impact - We want to make the places we work in better; leaving a lasting infrastructure and social legacy. We believe in proactivity to maximise impact.
5. We Deliver to Grow - The successful delivery of frameworks and contracts feeds our ability to grow strategically and strengthen OCU to expand the business and capabilities even further.
About OCU
Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering customer-focused civil engineering solutions.
Working directly with many of the country’s leading blue-chip power, water, telecoms and rail clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team.
We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment.
We believe that being successful is a choice.
We choose to be successful.
We are OCU, ‘One Company United’.
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