Job Title: Bid Manager
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Excellent Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67696
Shape the Future of Defence and Engineering Excellence
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Bid Manager.
The role
As a Bid Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of our business-winning strategy—leading high-impact bids that secure vital contracts across defence, aerospace and engineering. This is a dynamic and strategic role where your leadership will directly influence Babcock’s growth and market position. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape compelling proposals that make a real difference to our customers and communities.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Developing bid strategies, win themes, and value propositions that set us apart
- Leading bid teams through capture and proposal phases to deliver winning submissions
- Coordinating inputs from diverse teams and managing bid budgets effectively
- Facilitating workshops, reviews, and customer presentations
- Driving continuous improvement and promoting wellbeing across bid teams
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week with flexible working patterns available. Your hub will be determined based on your location.
Essential experience of the Bid Manager:
- Proven experience in bid management and business winning methodologies
- Strong understanding of capture phase activities and strategic planning
- Demonstrated project management expertise
- Ability to lead and motivate multi-functional teams
- Experience in service-based industries
Qualifications for the Bid Manager:
- Degree-level education is desirable
- APMP qualification is desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Flexible locations
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 21/05/2026
