Bid Coordinator

Bid Coordinator

Location: Bristol, UK - Hybrid Working Patterns Available

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72723

The role

As a Bid Coordinator, you'll play a vital role in shaping high quality, competitive bids that help Babcock grow sustainably across defence, aerospace and engineering markets. You'll support the end to end bid management process, working collaboratively with bid managers, writers, designers and technical experts to deliver compelling customer responses.

This is an exciting opportunity to build your career within a FTSE 100 organisation, gaining valuable exposure to complex defence procurement, senior stakeholders and high profile programmes. You'll deepen your expertise in bid management, develop your professional capability and grow your career in a collaborative, supportive and high performing environment.

Day to day responsibilities

• Coordinating bid activities in line with Babcock's Business Management System and Business Growth policies
• Managing bid schedules, kick off meetings, reviews and stakeholder workshops to ensure timely, high quality submissions
• Supporting multiple bids simultaneously, tracking actions, inputs and approvals across diverse teams
• Maintaining customer procurement portals and ensuring accurate, compliant documentation
• Producing bid reports and updates that inform progress, risks and decision making

Work hours: 37 hours per week, based at our Bristol site. Hybrid working patterns are available. Travel to other Babcock and customer sites will be expected to support bid activity.

Essential experience

• Proven experience in a Bid Coordinator role, ideally with 1-2 years' experience
• Experience supporting United Kingdom Ministry of Defence bids within a prime defence contractor environment
• Knowledge of defence procurement processes and contracting mechanisms
• Confidence working with multiple stakeholders across business development and technical teams
• Willingness and ability to travel within the United Kingdom and internationally, including occasional periods away from base location

Qualifications

• Essential: Educated to A level or equivalent
• Desirable: Membership of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals
• Desirable: Bid or Proposal Foundation or Practitioner Certification

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK ().

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading benefit: allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Equal Opportunities

Babcock is a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.