Bid Manager

Brisbane - Australia

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Construction

Job Summary

About the Role

As a Bid Manager at McNab youll be the driving force behind the tender process. Youll set the strategy coordinate multidisciplinary teams and ensure each submission is delivered on time on budget and on brand.

Youll manage a wide variety of tenders - EOI ECI negotiated and competitive while keeping processes efficient and outcomes aligned with client expectations and business goals.

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end bid management: Chair start-up mid-review and finalisation meetings drive the win strategy and ensure smooth handover to delivery teams.
Plan and track bids: Develop detailed bid programs outlining milestones such as site visits consultant selection value-engineering workshops pricing deadlines and submission dates.
Client liaison: Act as the primary point of contact test client drivers raise RFIs communicate risks and maintain momentum throughout the tender process.
Documentation management: Oversee all drawings specifications approvals specialist reports and addenda ensuring timely and accurate distribution to consultants and subcontractors.
Cross-team coordination: Work closely with Estimating and Operations to align trade packages take-offs preliminaries and value-management options ensuring accuracy and mitigating risk.
Design collaboration: Partner with Design Managers to challenge concepts develop commercially viable solutions manage BIM/3D requirements and prepare clarification and exclusion schedules.
Construction alignment: Collaborate with Project and Construction Managers on site establishment and build methodologies to improve efficiency.
Commercial governance: Ensure adherence to the win strategy identify and escalate deviations early and support contract reviews and contingency planning.
Post-tender review: Lead clarifications debriefs and lessons-learned sessions applying client feedback to improve future bids.

What Youll Bring

Proven experience managing complex construction bids ($20M$150M).
Strong understanding of NCC Australian Standards and WHS legislation.
Exceptional written visual and verbal communication skills - able to simplify technical information and influence stakeholders at all levels.
Commercial acumen in contracts risk and value management.
Collaborative leadership style that energises teams and drives accountability.

About McNab

McNab is one of the largest Construction Development and Property groups in Australia with turnover now exceeding $1bn each year. Despite our growth and size weve never lost our small company DNA - which centres around genuine care for our staff customers and all our stakeholders.

We genuinely care. We make it easy. We deliver certainty.

This is our promise - to our clients and everyone we deal with. Delivering on these three things is what drives us at McNab. Everything we do from recruiting and training to performance and promotion centres around this promise.

We leverage the entire McNab Group to deliver certainty for our clients at a time of unprecedented uncertainty in the industry. And our approach works. From delivering our own property developments to manufacturing our own building products and a plethora of aligned businesses your career at McNab goes well beyond traditional construction roles.

McNab benefits:

Birthday leave Celebrate your special day on us!
Social Club and team events Work hard play hard with regular team events.
Annual health and fitness subsidy Stay fit and healthy with our health benefits.
Fitness passport - affordable unlimited access to a wide network of fitness facilities.
Parental leave program Supporting you through lifes important milestones.
Employee Assistance Program Weve got your back with support whenever you need it.
Tailored development opportunities We invest in your growth with tailored training programs.

This is a great opportunity to build a strong career with a reputable construction company that genuinely cares about the development of all staff. If youre ready to join a team that invests in your futureplease apply now.

Please note: we are not engaging recruitment agencies for this role. Any applications submitted via agencies will not be considered.

Required Experience:

Manager

About the Role As a Bid Manager at McNab youll be the driving force behind the tender process. Youll set the strategy coordinate multidisciplinary teams and ensure each submission is delivered on time on budget and on brand.Youll manage a wide variety of tenders - EOI ECI negotiated and competitive ...