Murphy Group Looking for Senior Bid Manager at York Full Time

J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; water; power; natural resources; and construction & property.Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities.
Senior Bid Manager – York – TRU Alliance

Are you a Bid Manager looking for your next opportunity on a billion+ pound project where you can instantly add value with your expertise? If so we are keen to hear from you regarding a new role that has been created to join the team at TRU Alliance. As the Senior Bid Manager you will professionally write proposal content that clearly articulates Murphy’s value proposition, this is a networked role that will require you to act quickly and effectively to short deadlines but will give the right candidate a fantastic balance  of challenge and reward.

What you will be doing
* Take a lead role in the qualification of potential Bids, ensuring resources are focused on the appropriate priority opportunities, both prior to and during the formal Bid process.
* Work with the Business Development Managers to devise the relationship development action plan that will ensure appropriate contact is made with all decision makers and influencers.
* Lead the development of the Bid strategy by ensuring the tendering team fully understand the client needs and can clearly articulate the benefits of the solution and value proposition.
* Conduct one to one and team coaching sessions to ensure the team fully understand the client needs, the solution and can clearly articulate their role, experience and credentials in a convincing, winning manner.
* Lead storyboarding sessions, participating in key review meetings / final document review, management of contributory authors, and document production.
* Write technical responses covering all aspects of Civil Engineering
* Compilation of Supplier Questionnaire Documents
* Weekly updates of Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Pre- Qualifications, Tenders and Leads.
* Liaise with all Estimators any action any deliverables required

Who we are looking for
* Experience of leading high value opportunities (£50m+)
* Experience of coordinating and updating a knowledgebase system is essential.
* Full knowledge of the bid lifecycle from tracking of OJEU notices to PQQ, Tender and Post Tender Interviews
* Man-management / leadership of large teams in complex, cross border, high value opportunities

About the project
The Transpennine Route Upgrade aims to deliver faster, longer, more frequent and more reliable services across the north of England, from Newcastle, Hull and York towards Manchester and Liverpool via Leeds. The East of Leeds part of the Transpennine Route between York and Leeds was awarded in October 2014 to an Alliance including Murphy