Principle Bid Manager
CompanySiemens Energy
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At6/3/2026
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Occupation TypeSales accounts and business development managers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£55,200
(£28.31 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Snapshot of Your Day
You will lead and support a growing team of Bid Managers responding to complex, high‑value customer tenders across the HVDC, GLS, and Synchronous Condenser portfolios. Your day involves shaping bid strategies, reviewing proposal documentation, coordinating with cross‑functional experts, and providing guidance to ensure compliant, high‑quality submissions. You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, engage with customers, and ensure each bid aligns with commercial, technical, and strategic objectives. Every day brings opportunities to influence major projects and contribute to the success of the UK & Ireland organisation.
How You’ll Make An Impact
You will lead and support a growing team of Bid Managers responding to complex, high‑value customer tenders across the HVDC, GLS, and Synchronous Condenser portfolios. Your day involves shaping bid strategies, reviewing proposal documentation, coordinating with cross‑functional experts, and providing guidance to ensure compliant, high‑quality submissions. You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, engage with customers, and ensure each bid aligns with commercial, technical, and strategic objectives. Every day brings opportunities to influence major projects and contribute to the success of the UK & Ireland organisation.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Provide leadership, coaching, and development to a team of Bid Managers, ensuring high performance and continuous improvement.
- Allocate bid resources effectively across multiple portfolios to meet growing business needs.
- Lead the end‑to‑end management of complex tenders, ensuring submissions are compliant, compelling, and strategically positioned.
- Develop winning bid strategies, including value propositions, competitive positioning, and commercial approaches.
- Drive cross‑functional collaboration with Sales, Engineering, Legal, and Finance to ensure cohesive proposal development.
- Analyse bid outcomes, gather insights, and implement improvements to strengthen future proposal success.
- Extensive experience in bid or proposal management, ideally within high‑voltage energy, power generation, or related industrial sectors.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop a team, with proven experience managing direct reports.
- Strong commercial and strategic acumen, with the ability to shape competitive, customer‑focused proposal strategies.
- Proven ability to manage large, complex tenders from strategy through submission, ensuring quality and compliance.
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- Opportunities to work with a global team
- Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects
- Medical benefits
- Remote/Flexible work
- Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave
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