Associate Bid Manager
As our Associate Bid Manager, you’ll collaborate with senior leaders, keep bids moving with clarity, structure, and confidence in a fast‑paced, high‑performing team.
Role Overview
Due to an internal move across our global network, we’re now looking for a strong Associate Bid Manager to support the delivery of high quality bids and proposals across our private and public sector teams. We need someone who enjoys shaping win themes, value propositions, and competitive positioning in collaboration with our senior bids team.
The purpose of this role is to support the end‑to‑end bid process by coordinating inputs, facilitating key meetings, and ensuring proposals are clear, aligned, and compliant. It exists to enhance the quality and consistency of bid submissions through effective writing support, rigorous content reviews, and structured document control. The role also drives continuous improvement by maintaining bid resources, managing multiple projects efficiently, and contributing to lessons‑learned activities across the function.
We work in a fast moving, collaborative environment where clarity, creativity, and accountability are essential.
Responsibilities
Facilitate bid kick‑offs, storyboarding sessions, and review meetings to drive alignment and clarity
Assist with writing and editing sections of proposals under guidance from team members and stakeholders
Coordinate cross‑functional inputs and ensure compliance with bid processes
Conduct content reviews, quality checks, and document control for larger bids
Manage multiple projects at a time, prioritise and deliver timely outcomes
Support the development and maintenance of bid libraries, case studies, and evidence packs
Contribute to lessons‑learned reviews and continuous improvement initiatives across the bids function
Experience:
This is an Associate level role and requires 2-3 years experience working within a Bids function.
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What we offer you:
Career and Professional Development
25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade
Life Assurance
Private Medical Scheme
Virtual GP
Global Mobility Scheme
Rewards Platform
Company Pension Scheme
Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave
Find out more about Savills offer
Team Overview
This is no ordinary team, and this is no ordinary role. We’re driven, passionate thought leaders, positioned as strategic advisers alongside the internal clients we collaborate with. We are unified by a common goal: to pursue and win the most profitable new business with Savills clients through our strategic bid leadership, in order to protect Savills growth and market position.
Recruitment agencies
Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
- Business area
- Business Operations
- Role
- Operations
- Locations
- Margaret Street, London
- Contract Type
- Permanent, Full time
- Remote Status
- This role offers some working from home
- Salary
- Competitive
Margaret Street, London
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
Values
No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:
We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.
We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
About Savills
Over 42,000 people work for us in more than 70 countries all over the world. This breadth of global coverage, combined with specialist services and market insight, means we'll always have an expert who is local to you.
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