If you are looking to work for a growing business who truly value and care for their employees, then look no further!
Aureos are seeking a talented and experienced Proposals Manager to join our growing infrastructure team. This is a key role where you will lead the development of high-quality bids for complex infrastructure projects, helping us secure strategic work across our rail, highways, energy and nuclear business units. Managing the end-to-end bid process, you will craft compelling written content and collaborate closely with technical experts across multiple disciplines to produce exceptional submissions.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the full bid lifecycle across the infrastructure division, from inception to final submission, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality, competitive proposals.
- Write, edit, and proofread persuasive and technically accurate bid responses, tailored to client requirements.
- Collaborate with subject matter experts, commercial teams, and delivery leads to shape winning strategies and facilitate solution development workshops and reviews.
- Coordinate closely with Bid Coordinators to maintain timelines and uphold quality standards across all deliverables.
- Analyse tender documentation to extract key requirements, identify win themes, and ensure full compliance with client and internal governance.
- Support post-submission activities, including clarifications, presentations, and feedback reviews.
- Support internal knowledge sharing and coaching of more junior team members.
Skills, Knowledge and experience
- Proven experience as a Proposals Manager in infrastructure (minimum 3 years’ experience), ideally with exposure to the highways, energy, rail, or nuclear sectors.
- Exceptional writing, editing, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, compelling and original content.
- Strong project management and organisational skills, able to manage multiple bids simultaneously.
- Collaborative and proactive, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Knowledge of industry standards, procurement processes, and compliance requirements in infrastructure.
Desirable:
- APMP or similar bid/proposal management qualification.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe (Acrobat and InDesign).
In return you will receive
- Generous Salary
- 25 days Holiday with the option to buy more
- Pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Employee benefits portal.
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral Scheme
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Whether you are looking for progression in your new role or for your forever job, we will happily welcome your application.
Equal Opportunities
Aureos are an equal opportunities employer, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
Skills Required
- Minimum 3 years of experience as a Proposals Manager in infrastructure
- Exceptional writing, editing, and communication skills
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple bids simultaneously
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders at all levels
- Knowledge of infrastructure industry standards, procurement processes, and compliance requirements
- Experience in highways, energy, rail, or nuclear sectors
- APMP or similar bid or proposal management qualification
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Proficiency in Adobe Acrobat and InDesign
What We Do
Aureos is a UK-based, multi-disciplinary engineering services provider specializing in energy and transport networks. It designs, engineers, installs, maintains and provides crisis response for critical infrastructure across power, renewable energy, nuclear decommissioning, rail, highways and local government. The company also delivers standalone services and integrated, turn-key solutions, with a stated purpose of helping create a resilient, sustainable and secure future.
