Proposals Manager

Location: Kilburn

Job Type: Bid

Contract: Full Time/Flexible Working

Application Deadline: 05 Sep 2025

The Vacancy

We’re looking for a Proposals Manager to support our growing bid pipeline in London, with a particular emphasis on high-quality bid writing emphasis and bid coordination.

The role of Proposals Manager will write persuasive, creative, compelling, and focused responses for bid opportunities including presentations and other quality related activities, ensuring our submissions are compelling, compliant, and aligned with Wates’ brand and values.

As a Proposals Manager, you will:

  • Work with the Senior Proposal Manager and wider team in development responses that are attractive, concise and bring out the benefits of our offer
  • Facilitate quality question workshops and meetings with the wider bid team to share knowledge and develop a strategy to answer quality questions
  • Manage and communicate relevant market and competitor data
  • Check the quality and consistency of responses in terms of themes, messages, key phrases and key words
  • Effectively liaise with key stakeholders across the business to ensure access to accurate and up-to-date company information on structure, accounts, safety stats etc.
  • Produce Presentations, Brochures, Marketing Material to support pre/post bid work and business development

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Competitive salary & profit share scheme
  • Flexible working
  • Car Allowance / Company Car
  • Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
  • Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
  • One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
  • Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

  • Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
  • Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
  • Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.