Job Vacancy Bid Manager

United Kingdom

CGI

Job position Bid Manager

Permanent

As soon as possible

United Kingdom

Published on 21/05/2026

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At CGI, you’ll help shape and win complex, high-value opportunities that drive meaningful outcomes for our clients and business. As a Senior Bid Manager within our Leeds Business Unit, you’ll lead strategic bids, work with experts across CGI, and play a key role in delivering growth through high-quality, compelling proposals.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, strong pension, private healthcare, and a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching), making you a CGI Partner, not just an employee. Join a collaborative, inclusive community where you’ll be supported to grow your career.

Candidate profile

You’ll lead end-to-end bid activity for strategic opportunities, developing winning strategies and ensuring submissions are high quality, compliant, and commercially strong. Working closely with sales, capture, and technical teams, you’ll help improve win rates and deliver measurable business impact.

You’ll also support continuous improvement across the bid function by managing governance, stakeholder engagement, risk, and performance reporting while bringing fresh ideas and structure to every pursuit.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end bid management activities

• Develop winning bid strategies and responses

• Manage stakeholders across sales and delivery teams

• Review and refine proposal content and presentations

• Monitor bid budgets, risks, governance, and KPIs

• Support client presentations and clarification sessions

• Drive continuous improvement through post-bid reviews

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

You’ll bring strong bid management experience within complex environments, with the ability to influence stakeholders, manage priorities, and deliver high-quality outcomes under pressure.

Essential qualifications:

• Proven experience managing and winning bids

• Strong pre-sales and commercial awareness

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams

• Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills

• Experience working within fast-paced environments

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Working environment

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

Discover CGI

London, England, United Kingdom

> 1000 employees

IT services

We are a global business with 91,500 professionals across hundreds of locations worldwide, providing end-to-end IT and business process services that drive our clients’ businesses. In the UK alone, we have around 6,000 member-partners working across 19 towns and cities, doing everything from writing complex code to designing sophisticated software solutions. The work we do powers some of the most ambitious projects that touch the lives of many. Our approach sets us apart, characterised by our proximity model, international presence, expertise, and operational excellence. We organise our operations within metro markets where our clients have concentrated footprints, empowering our local teams to build trusted, in-person relationships. As you build your career here, you’ll develop your skills, share your insights, and work side-by-side with colleagues and clients on innovative solutions that address the most complex issues. Our commitment to ownership, flexibility, and being approachable makes us easy to do business with. Join us, and together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action to meet the needs and balance the interests of our clients, shareholders, communities, and each other. Benefits: - Insurance coverage - Medical benefits - Pension plan - Member Assistant Programme - Check4Cancer - Flexible time off - Share Purchase Plan - Member discounts - Dental benefits - Vision benefits - Profit Participation Plan - Health and Wellbeing Programme

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