About the role
Our Client has an exciting opportunity for a Pre-Construction Manager to join their Regional team.
Role purpose
- To manage and co-ordinate all elements of a bid, ensuring that high quality, competitive proposals is delivered to the customer in a manner consistent with the company’s Management System;
- To deliver technical support during the bid process and share knowledge across Centres of Excellence and CSUK to deliver high quality technical and commercial services;
- To manage and coordinate all requirements of the Gated Business Lifecycle in line with delegated levels of authority;
- To prepare and approve responses to technical questions as part of bid submissions.;
- To prepare and manage bid expenditure in line with approved bid budgets.
What you'll be doing
As, Pre-Construction Manager, you will be responsible for the following: -
- Ensuring that tender deliverables are produced in a timely and effective manner;
- Assisting with collating commercial data from across the wider UKCS and incorporate this into Regional South bid submissions;
- Completing requirement for the Gated Business Lifecycle approvals;
- Incorporating commercial qualifications and pricing into the bid submission;
- Implementing the bid strategy as directed by the Bid Director;
- Supervising junior members of bid staff when required;
- Completing written responses to relevant tender questions submitted as part of a bid.
- Considering the commercial attractiveness of project and report conclusions early to management
- Assisting in setting process key objectives and timescales, including managing bid cost budget;
- Identifying significant development/project risks and opportunities and report these using the IRIS system;
- Assisting in checking the design work and cost plan is developing to meet:
- Statutory obligations - Customers’ requirements
- Best value or lowest cost, depending on the objective of the customer
- Appealing scheme
- Consider alternatives and incorporate any worthy of consideration;
- Working with the estimators to generate a Cost Plan to allow pricing;
- Preparing tender forms and management papers in line with Gated Business Lifecycle;
- Meeting or speak in detail with key specialists to optimise:
- Design – Specification – Programme – Value – Logistics - Economy
- Considering preliminaries and project team requirements in line with programme requirements;
- Setting and implementing the Bid Strategy with the Bid Director;
- Value manage/value engineer and progress alternatives accordingly;
- Bringing together the tender sum, based on accurate net cots, with a strategy for winning the project and delivering the required margin;
- Liaising with customer’s professionals and attend meetings and interviews with customers and their consultants as necessary;
- Preparing considered written responses to queries raised;
- Managing and planning resources to enable submission of two or more tenders;
- Supporting the development and implementation of the appropriate digital toolsets to execute cost take-off and other estimating activities, such as 5D cost planning;
- Ensuring that cost planning and estimating are accurate and reflect the project requirements and risk profile;
Who we're looking for
The following experience and qualifications are essential: -
- Bid Management skills;
- Ability to manage large scale volumes of bids across multiple contract forms;
- Ability to lead and manage teams effectively, delivering commercial and tender expertise to large scale tender projects;
- A desire to be innovative and seek to continuously improve knowledge and services is required;
The following experience and qualifications are desirable: -
- A relevant qualification, such as a BSc in Quantity Surveying and/or MRICS or equivalent;
- A valid CSCS card.
