Pre-Contract Administrator

Role Title: Pre-Contract Administrator

Business Unit: Asset Intelligence

Location: Warrington

Role Purpose

The Pre-Contract Administrator plays a key role in supporting our pre construction team by coordinating opportunity tracking, governance, and bid activity. Reporting to the Senior Bid Manager, you'll help ensure opportunities are identified, managed, and progressed effectively through the work winning lifecycle. This is a proactive, detail focused role suited to someone who enjoys working in a fast paced environment, bringing structure, clarity, and consistency to multiple priorities while supporting high quality bid submissions.

What you'll be doing

• Maintain an accurate, up to date pipeline of opportunities
• Capture and track new enquiries, ensuring visibility across teams
• Produce regular reports and support pipeline prioritisation
• Coordinate governance processes (e.g. approvals, risk registers, bid packs)
• Ensure documentation is accurate, complete, and compliant
• Maintain clear audit trails and version control
• Manage tender documentation and file structures
• Track deadlines and coordinate inputs from stakeholders
• Support the preparation of compliant submissions and bid reviews
• Maintain central libraries of key documents and standard content
• Ensure effective use of CRM and bid management systems
• Support reporting and continuous improvement of processes and tools

About you

• Experience in administration, coordination, or document control
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Confidence working with data, systems, and structured processes
• Experience with CRM or bid management systems (desirable)
• Construction, engineering, or similar sector experience is helpful but not essential

What we can offer in return

With an impressive order book of over £4.1 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we're poised for further growth and success.

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Competitive family leave policy
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options for all salaried employees, and free 24/7 employee assistance programme support
• Paid yearly membership to a recognised professional association relevant to your role

Additional information

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.

We encourage you to confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.

At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will offer an interview to any candidate with a long term health condition or disability that meets the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also discuss any adjustments required for your interview.