Bid Manager

Job Title: Bid Manager

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: £51,941 - £63,443 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract – 52 Weeks FTC

Role ID: SF67378

Shape the Future of Defence and Engineering

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 at Rosyth Business Park, near Dunfermline, Fife.

The role

As a Bid Manager, you’ll be at the heart of our business growth strategy—leading cross-functional teams to deliver winning proposals that support some of the UK’s most critical defence and engineering programmes. This is a dynamic and rewarding opportunity to influence major projects, drive innovation, and make a real impact on national security and global safety.

Day to day you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Leading and coordinating the development of competitive, compliant, and compelling proposals.
• Managing bid teams including coordinators, writers, graphic developers, apprentices, and graduates.
• Collaborating with Business Development to manage customer procurement portals.
• Driving cross-functional collaboration to meet client requirements.
• Developing bid plans, schedules, and stakeholder engagement strategies.
  
  
  

You’ll be based at Rosyth Royal Dockyard Limited (RRDL), working 36 hours per week. This role is a 52-week contract.

Essential experience of the Bid Manager:

• Proven experience in bid management within defence or complex procurement environments.
• Strong background in business growth, capture, or solution development.
• Skilled in leading cross-functional teams and building strategic relationships.
• Confident in managing senior-level customer and supplier engagements.
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Bid Manager:

• Ideally degree qualified, but not essential.
  
  
  

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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
  
  
  

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 [email protected] 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: 17/09/2025