Job Introduction
Job Title: Tender Bid Manager
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm
Location: Hessle (hybrid)
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced and highly organised Tender Bid Manager to guide and manage the end-to-end bid process for public sector opportunities within the healthcare and social care sectors. This role will be responsible for producing high-quality tender submissions, coordinating internal stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with UK public sector procurement regulations.
The successful candidate will have strong commercial awareness, exceptional written communication skills, and a proven ability to manage complex bids within regulated environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the full bid lifecycle from opportunity identification through to submission.
- Prepare and write high-quality tender responses for healthcare and social care contracts.
- Ensure all submissions comply with UK public sector procurement requirements and CQC regulatory expectations.
- Coordinate with subject matter experts and internal stakeholders to gather required information.
- Maintain bid timelines and ensure all deadlines are met.
- Review tender documentation and identify risks, opportunities, and win strategies.
- Guide bid reviews and ensure submissions meet quality and compliance standards.
Essential Requirements
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in a tender/bid management role within UK healthcare or social care.
- Strong understanding of CQC standards and UK public sector procurement regulations.
- Exceptional written communication and proposal writing skills.
- High level of organisation with the ability to manage multiple bids simultaneously.
- Strong commercial awareness and strategic thinking.
- Ability to work collaboratively with various teams
Desirable
- APMP (Association of Proposal Management Professionals) qualification.
- Experience leading bids for multi-million-pound public sector contracts.
- Experience working within a regulated healthcare or social care provider.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
As you would expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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