Building a sustainable tomorrow
What if your next step led further than you thought?
With a reputation built over 150 years, BAM has the depth, scale and momentum to offer you more than just a job. We offer a path. One that can take you across sectors, into specialism, leadership, or beyond. We invest in development because we want our people to stay, grow and progress with us.
BAM UK & Ireland are recruiting a Bid Coordinator to join our frameworks team. The Bid Coordinator plays a key role in managing the structure, process and timely delivery of bid submissions, ensuring information is well‑organised, high quality and compliant.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys ownership, coordination and working at the centre of fast‑paced, deadline‑driven activity.
Making Possible
- Support completion of written submissions and marketing information, such as expressions of interest, pre‑qualification questionnaires, tenders, case studies and presentations
- Format documents in a clear, compelling and consistent way, whilst maintaining compliance with BAM UK & Ireland brand requirements
- Work with other members of the proposals team to coordinate and collate responses for proposals
- Create simple but impactful graphics to include within proposals
- Ensure that all Client requirements are reflected within each proposal
- Develop presentation slides and materials
- Plan workload to ensure that all submission deadlines are met
- Attend kick‑off and progress meetings as required
- Self‑check work and undertake reviews of proposals developed by other team members, providing constructive criticism to drive improvement
- Proof read responses to ensure a high‑quality written submission, checking for readability, clarity, grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure and formatting
- Coordinate and produce any hard‑copy proposals required
- Update and support ongoing development of the knowledge management system to capture bid text, evidence and other relevant information in a structured and usable way
- Review feedback and lessons learned on both successful and unsuccessful proposals to promote continuous improvement
- Participate in internal post‑submission feedback reviews to drive improvement
- Use Dynamics 365 to create, capture, update and share project and framework opportunity information to support business development and the governance process
- Develop and maintain a portals spreadsheet to control login details for all client portals
- Undertake portal management, including downloading client documents, uploading submissions and coordinating client correspondence in a timely manner and to meet deadlines
Your team
Based from any UK BAM office on a hybrid basis
What’s in it for you?
We are committed to our employees and offer competitive salaries along with benefits such as:
8% pension contribution
Private Health Insurance
Dental Plan
26 days annual leave (increasing with length of service)
2 wellbeing days per year
Paid maternity and paternity leave
Learning & Development opportunities – internal progression is actively encouraged
A supportive team environment within an established work winning function
…and many more great perks
What do you bring to the role?
Essential:
- Educated to at least GCSE standard in English and Maths
- Proficient user of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe and graphical software such as InDesign, Visio and Illustrator
- Proposals training, such as Shipley or the Winning Bids Masterclass
- Previous proposals experience in infrastructure / construction environments
Preferable:
- Proficient user of graphical software such as InDesign, Visio and Illustrator
- Experience using knowledge management systems
- Experience using customer relationship management tools such as Dynamics or Salesforce
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
BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at any time 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. "Join us in Making Possible"
For more information or an informal conversation about this opportunity, please contact Paul Howes, Recruitment Manager: paul.howes@bam.com
Closing date 30th May
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