Senior Bid Manager

Overview

As an Senior Bid Manager at Linesight, you will lead highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will build on your vast industry experience which will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve.

Responsible for managing and coordinating bids and proposals across the EMEA, guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, compelling and compliant submissions that meet the client’s technical and commercial expectations. The role combines bid and project management with content development, stakeholder coordination and quality assurance, and reports to the Group Bidding Manager, based in Dublin or London.

For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Manage the full bid lifecycle, from capture planning, tender review and win strategy development to PQQ/proposal submission, interview preparation, and debrief sessions. Review procurement documentation to identify requirements, evaluation criteria and deadlines, and develop bid plans, submission programmes, responsibility matrices and content plans.
• Ensure all bids meet client requirements and internal governance standards.
• Coordinate with legal, commercial, and technical teams to align on content, pricing, and compliance.
• Maintain consistency and quality throughout the bid process. Develop, review and refine proposal content with technical teams and subject matter experts, translating technical expertise into clear, differentiated and client-focused responses aligned with evaluation criteria.
• Identify and apply AI-enabled tools and practices to improve bid research, content development, review and quality assurance, maintaining accuracy, confidentiality and appropriate human oversight.
• Champion innovation across the bidding process, testing new approaches, templates and digital tools to improve efficiency, consistency and submission quality.
• Lead pricing discussions and utilize automated tools to support fee development.
• Facilitate lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support opportunity pipeline coordination and work with regional and global teams to prioritise and allocate bidding support according to opportunity requirements and strategic importance.
• Support junior bidding colleagues and contributors, working with the wider global bidding function to maintain consistent standards and ways of working.
• Act as the central point of communication between internal stakeholders and support teams.
• Maintain and improve reusable proposal content, case studies, CVs and credentials; use previous submissions and organisational knowledge effectively, and maintain accurate bid and opportunity information in relevant systems and repositories.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Relevant degree or equivalent - APMP Qualifications an advantage
• Proven experience managing bids or proposals in a complex, deadline-driven professional services, consultancy, construction or technical environment.
• Strong understanding of bid governance, pricing, and compliance processes.
• Ability to interpret complex tender documentation and translate requirements into clear actions and deliverables.
• Excellent written communication, editing and proofreading skills, alongside strong stakeholder coordination and project management skills.
• Proficiency with CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce) and proposal tools.
• Ability to work collaboratively across global teams and time zones.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign is essential, with the ability to independently design and format high-impact proposals and capability statements
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
• Ability to work independently under pressure, prioritise competing requirements and manage multiple deadlines and contributors.
• Organised, commercially aware and comfortable taking ownership, with the judgement to focus effort between detailed proposal delivery and higher-level bid strategy.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills; confidence working with senior and technical colleagues, building trusted relationships and challenging content constructively.
• Desirable: experience within construction consultancy, including project management, cost management or project controls.

Essential: experience supporting complex, multidisciplinary or international bids, and experience within data centres, life sciences, advanced manufacturing, infrastructure or other technically complex sectors

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!