What you'll be doing

• Develop relationships with customers and their representatives to understand project requirements.


• Assist in the preparation, coordination, and delivery of presentations to successfully secure contracts.


• Support the bid process, including:
  
  
  
  • Governance papers and tender settlement documentation
  
  
  • Bid management plans and bid programmes
  
  
  • Liaising with supply chain partners and consultants to shape bid content
  
  
  • Ensuring compliance with all tender requirements
  
  
  • Contributing written technical, legal, and financial content to bids
  
  
  • Maintaining document control and clarification registers
  
  
  • Conducting customer intelligence gathering and competitor SWOT analysis
  
  
  
  


• Represent the business at key customer meetings and industry events, such as bidder open days.


• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including bid steering committees and sponsors, to prepare and present tender settlement meetings.


• Support the transition of secured contracts to operational teams.


• Contribute to the development of digital toolsets, including BIM and 5D cost planning, to enhance bid submissions.


• Maintain a Project Risk Register to identify and mitigate potential risks.


• Uphold Balfour Beatty’s Values, ensuring a focus on Zero Harm and sustainability initiatives.

Who we're looking for

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships under time pressure.


• A customer-centric approach, identifying opportunities in invitations to tender.


• A passion for innovation and continuous improvement within the bid-writing process.


• Strong IT skills, mathematical ability, and excellent bid-writing proficiency.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.

Our extensive benefits package includes:

• Competitive salary


• 37.5-hour workweek (Monday to Friday)


• Pension scheme: Up to 5% employee & 7% employer contributions


• Family-friendly policies:


• 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave


• 4 weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave


• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays


• Professional development: Access to a broad range of learning opportunities, including qualifications


• Employee Assistance Programme for support and well-being


• Volunteering opportunities: Up to 2 days per year

About us

Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beattys Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full on the Balfour Beatty website.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. 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.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found on Balfour Beatty website.