Randstad CPE
Location
Slough, Berkshire | United Kingdom
Job description
We are recruiting a Precon/Bid manager to join a national contractor based near Slough. They have exceeded all their targets and budgets for 2024 and have secured pipelines of work for 2025/26 and due to the volume of opportunities are looking to increase their preconstruction team.
They target framework opportunities and are secured on the DFE, Pagabo, SCF and P23 and local authority frameworks and work on bids in the education, health, care, and defence marketplaces but will look at 2 stage or negotiated work for key clients but do not do single stage high risk developments and projects are valued between £20 and £90 million.
They have an excellent preconstruction team consisting of bid managers, estimators, design team, building services and commercial experts who form a team for each bid and work as a team to achieve the best possible result.
Duties will include:
Develop strategy and decide if compliant tender is feasible If desirable, produce non-compliant tender or alternative proposal in parallel. Produce & monitor Bid Programme, Response Tracker and Budget-Communicate requirements to bid team, Ensure timely submission in required format, Provide technical and operational input to the proposed technical solution. Identify all project risks and mitigate as appropriate.Write, contribute to or review technical and SHESQ responses. Ensure the submission complies with the tender requirements.Agree estimating strategy with the Estimator or Estimating Manager.
Lead procurement of designers, subcontractors and suppliers Chair meetings and interviews with prospective partners on critical packages. Agree Project Programme Strategy with the Planning Manager. Providing technical support to the Project Planner. Review the Project Programme.
Ensure tender response review gateways are achieved. Implement mitigation measures when there is programme slip, to ensure subsequent milestones are met. Issue, Manage and respond to Technical Queries to and from Client and suppliers
Where an alternative or non-compliant proposal is desirable and there is sufficient time, Devise a strategy and ensure that it is produced in parallel with the proposal. contribute to and manage the production of all documents, programmes, drawings, plans, proposed methods and risk assessments for the alternative submission.
You will be responsible for managing the bid process from PQQ and initial enquiries through the bid, 2nd stage and contact awards phases and be working with all the relevant external and internal stakeholders to acheive the best bid possible each and every time.
Opportunities like this are rare and would suit someone with experience of working within a preconstruction team on framework bids so if you are looking to move up to a national brand or are frustrated at a Tier 1 now is the time to make the move to a growing business so apply today.
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
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£75k - £90k per annum
