Pre-Construction/Bid Manager
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Sales accounts and business development managers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£55,200
(£28.31 per hour)
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Description
About The Role
Balfour Beatty’s Regional Build team is growing, and we’re looking for an experienced Pre-Construction/Bid Manager to join us in Warrington. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and securing some of the North West’s most impactful building projects.
As a Pre-Construction Manager, you’ll lead the early phases of our projects—working closely with estimators, planners, designers, commercial teams, and clients to develop robust, innovative, and deliverable proposals. You’ll be central to driving strategic bid responses, managing pre-construction programmes, and ensuring that our solutions reflect the highest standards of safety, sustainability, buildability, and value.
What you'll be doing
As a Pre-Construction/Bid Manager You Will
Balfour Beatty’s Regional Build team is growing, and we’re looking for an experienced Pre-Construction/Bid Manager to join us in Warrington. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and securing some of the North West’s most impactful building projects.
As a Pre-Construction Manager, you’ll lead the early phases of our projects—working closely with estimators, planners, designers, commercial teams, and clients to develop robust, innovative, and deliverable proposals. You’ll be central to driving strategic bid responses, managing pre-construction programmes, and ensuring that our solutions reflect the highest standards of safety, sustainability, buildability, and value.
What you'll be doing
As a Pre-Construction/Bid Manager You Will
- Leading multidisciplinary bid teams to produce high-quality, competitive submissions for regional build projects.
- Developing clear bid strategies and win themes that respond to client needs and market insights.
- Managing timelines, governance, and deliverables to ensure seamless bid coordination and compliance.
You Will Have The Following
- Poven experience in bid or pre-construction management within the construction or built environment sectors.
- A successful track record of leading bids for regional building projects (education, healthcare, commercial, or mixed-use).
- Strong understanding of design development, construction planning, and cost management.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and influencing skills.
- The ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail.
- A collaborative approach and commitment to high standards, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeat
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeat
ty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com