Bid Manager

Bid Manager

Position Description
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.

This is a hybrid position.

Your future duties and responsibilities
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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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.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

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