VolkerHighways is a market leader in the delivery of highways and street lighting term maintenance contracts. We build strong collaborative relationships with our clients to drive improvements and efficiency in all our activities.
We have the capability to deliver major surfacing and public realm infrastructure projects. Our specialist in-house traffic management division provides expert advice and support across the industry, whilst assisting with our own, in-house contracts.
Join VolkerHighways as a Bid Manager at our Hoddesdon head office and lead the successful delivery of high-profile highways and street lighting bids. You’ll manage the full bid lifecycle from strategy and win themes to high-quality, compliant submissions, working closely with operational, commercial and specialist teams. This role requires strong leadership, stakeholder engagement and attention to detail, with a focus on continuous improvement and seamless handover to delivery. Ideal for a collaborative professional who thrives under pressure and is driven to win.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end bid delivery from go/no-go to submission and post-submission, ensuring full compliance and governance.
- Plan and manage bid programmes, milestones, dependencies, deliverables and resources across multiple bids.
- Run kick-offs and progress meetings, coordinate review stages, and ensure actions are completed to quality standards.
- Maintain clear records of decisions, approvals, assumptions and submission sign-off.
- Develop bid strategies, win themes and response plans aligned to client priorities and scoring criteria.
- Shape clear, evidence-based and outcome-focused responses with SMEs and writers, including executive summaries where required.
- Ensure consistent messaging, tone and terminology across all workstreams.
- Coordinate inputs from internal teams and specialists to ensure timely, complete submissions.
- Manage external writers, designers and consultants with clear briefs, deadlines and expectations.
- Oversee clarification processes, ensuring aligned, approved and risk-managed responses.
- Align bid narrative with commercial strategy, pricing, risks and contract requirements.
- Maintain the Risk & Opportunity Register and embed mitigation measures into submissions.
- Lead handovers to delivery teams, ensuring complete transfer of commitments, risks, assumptions and key information.
- Capture lessons learned and continuously improve bid processes, tools and content.
About you
- Strong bid or project management experience, including planning, governance and review processes
- Proven leadership and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and deliver to tight deadlines
- Proficient in Microsoft 365 and bid management systems (e.g. SharePoint, Asite portals, CRM tools)
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all levels
- Advanced writing ability with strong focus on reviewing and shaping high-quality responses
- High attention to detail with a strong sense of ownership, accountability and commitment to compliance
If your past experience doesn’t match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.
Why work with us?
VolkerHighways is under the umbrella of VolkerWessels UK which is a multidisciplinary contractor that delivers innovative engineering solutions across the civil engineering and construction sectors including rail, highways, airport, marine, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.
By utilising the specialist skills of each business unit within VolkerWessels UK, VolkerHighways are able to ensure our staff provide unrivalled resources and expertise to our clients.
We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.
We offer a range of benefits, including:
- Competitive salary
- Company car or car allowance
- Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
- Option to buy additional annual leave
- Private medical care
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
- Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
- Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefit
- Flexible working opportunities
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mental health, physical health, and financial support
- 24/7 Virtual GP service
Fairness, inclusion and respect
We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.
If you need support with your application, please contact us at careers@volkerwessels.co.uk
Additional information
Note for Recruitment Agencies:
Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.
We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed to careers@volkerwessels.co.uk
VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.
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