Assistant Manager, Bid Advisor

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Location Belfast, Bristol, London Business Line Technology & Transformation Job Type Permanent / FTC Date published 25-Sep-2026 Req # 25194

Job description

Connect to your Industry Deloitte LLP is a leading professional services firm employing over 20,000 partners and staff across 23 locations in the UK. The firm has a large Government and Public Services (G&PS) practice with over 2,500 dedicated partners and staff working across all parts of the public sector including central government, health, education, defence, security and justice, local and regional government and transport.

Deloitte's G&PS practice is one of the largest and most experienced providers of professional services to public sector clients in the UK and we are a Strategic Supplier to Government. Purpose and impact are pivotal to our work.

Due to the regulated nature of procurement in the public sector, the firm has established a specialist, business critical team, the Public Sector Bid Team (PSBT). Tasked with managing and supporting the firm's public sector bidding activity, the PSBT drives quality and operational improvements on public sector bids and helps the business to win work in a highly competitive marketplace.

As a bid manager, you will oversee and manage some of our most significant bids to help drive our ambitious future growth plans. If you have a passion for making things happen in an environment that matters, then this role could be for you.

Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way , serve with integrity , take care of each other , foster inclusion , and collaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity We are looking for a bid manager to join our Public Sector Bid Team, a business-critical function at the core of Deloitte's public sector growth ambitions. Working closely with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts and bid teams from across the firm, you will help to lead the planning, coordination and delivery of high-profile and complex public sector bids.

This is a varied and rewarding role, focused on helping to develop high-quality proposals and win business.

To be effective in this role, you will be an organised and proactive professional with excellent project management skills, confident building relationships with stakeholders at all levels and be flexible in your ability to work on bids for different clients and with different bid teams.

As a strong team player your responsibilities will include: Providing planning and bid management support from capture through to contract award, delivering on time and to high-quality standards. This will include:

• Preparing the team for, and helping to facilitate in-person and virtual bid meetings (e.g. bid kick-off, strategy, reviews, lessons learned), consolidating the outputs and actions
• Making sure that bid teams have a clear understanding of their roles, actions, timescales and expectations
• Running bid stand-up calls, managing the action tracker and clarification questions
• Sourcing and coordinating bid collateral, evidence and supporting information
• Developing compliant proposal templates aligned to client requirements and evaluation criteria
• Collaborating with key support functions including Quality & Risk, Commercial Support and other specialist teams
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with subject matter experts and third parties who are contributing to the bid
• Coordinating internal governance, risk assessments and compliance requirements
• Organising and facilitating bid reviews and consolidating feedback to make sure that responses are high quality and aligned with the client's needs
• Coordinating and finalising documents ready for submission
• Facilitating and collating lessons learned
• Championing our bidding best practice
• Contributing to continuous improvement projects and supporting our training programmes through facilitation and/or content development.

Connect to your skills and professional experience You are an bid professional who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and is motivated by delivering high-quality, winning proposals. You enjoy bringing people together around a common objective, building strong relationships and helping teams perform at their best.

You combine exceptional organisation and project management skills with a proactive, solution-focused mindset. You are comfortable challenging thinking, influencing senior stakeholders and navigating ambiguity to achieve the best outcomes. Above all, you have a passion for quality and take pride in producing compliant, compelling proposals that make a measurable impact.

Essential:

• Proven experience as a Bid-Coordinator or Bid Manager, working on public sector opportunities
• Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to demanding deadlines
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage, influence and advise senior stakeholders
• Ability to challenge constructively and ask insightful questions
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality and accuracy
• Strong interpersonal skills and use of initiative
• A flexible and adaptable approach, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic and evolving environment
• Excellent relationship building/relationship management skills to establish rapport, build trust and confidence, and manage expectations
• Positive attitude and enthusiasm for working on public sector bids and delivering high-quality work
• A collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for working as part of high-performing bid teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a commitment to continuous improvement.
• SC clearance (or a willingness to obtain SC clearance)

Desirable:

• Understanding of public sector procurement, public sector frameworks and the...