Deputy Framework Manager- Highways

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Job Description

Start here. Grow Here.

The Deputy Framework Manager supports the Framework Manager in the successful operation of the SPaTS3 Framework, alongside delivery and close-out of existing SPaTS2 legacy projects. The role covers bid and tender management, framework reporting and governance, delivery of contractual commitments, project mobilisation support, and the effective management of client and supplier relationships.

Here's what you'll do:

• Manage the coordination of tenders, including allocation to bid teams, schedule management, and ensuring submissions are delivered on time and to a high standard, with a clear focus on safety and quality.
• Lead the preparation and management of tender queries/clarifications, ensuring responses are accurate, compliant, and submitted within client deadlines.
• Provide commercial support throughout the tender process, including rate development, responding to commercial queries, and sharing best-practice examples to support competitiveness and win performance.
• Maintain oversight of the opportunity pipeline, including tracking, forecasting, and proactive opportunity management in collaboration with the Framework Manager and bid teams.
• Prepare and support internal bid governance activity, including coordination of inputs and occasional attendance at governance meetings.
• Contribute to bid lessons learned and performance improvement activity, including analysis of win/loss outcomes and trends.
• Support the Framework Manager in overall framework management, including leadership reporting, Tender Commitment reporting, and supplier and client engagement.
• Support supplier interactions as part of the wider framework team, including contract set-up, administration, and management of general queries.
• Provide guidance to project teams to ensure effective and compliant project set-up, including mobilisation requirements and framework processes.
• Manage internal framework cost and performance reporting, including budget tracking, allocation, and reporting.
• Maintain and provide framework rates/rate cards, ensuring appropriate control, accuracy, and timely updates.
• Lead or support customer initiatives within the framework to enhance service delivery, collaboration, and client satisfaction.
• Contribute to wider Advisory, Consultancy & Research project delivery activities, depending on business need and individual capability.
• Ensure the on-time, high-quality delivery of Tender Commitments, including tracking progress, supporting commitment leads, and escalating risks where required.
• Maintain and improve framework documentation, including updating and creating templates, best-practice guides, and proposal materials (including drafting content for quality submissions).
• Support onboarding and training of new Project Managers to the framework, and provide refresher training for existing team members as required providing clear and consistent advice.

Come grow with us.

We develop projects from concept through operation providing engineering and construction services for multiyear, multimillion-dollar projects for major rail and transit agencies. Our specialists provide analytical and strategic expertise for every stage of a project.

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Knowledge of NH/ Highways industry
• Independent worker, organised, proactive, flexible
• Continuous improvement focussed
• Problem solver
• Good collaborative communication skills
• Methodical, with excellent attention to detail

Desirable

• Knowledge of NEC4 PSC contracts
• Experience of Framework Management
• Knowledge of bid best practice, or bid writing/ reviewing skills
• PMO experience
• APM

  qualifications

At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. 

If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously.  To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address  View email address on jobs.smartrecruiters.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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