Role Overview

Location: Homebased with National Travel

Salary: £80,000 per annum + Car allowance + Bonus + Private healthcare (after 6mths)

Working Hours: 0800 - 1700 Monday to Friday

About EMCOR UK

At EMCOR UK, we’re redefining what it means to manage and maintain the built environment. With a proud engineering heritage and a strong track record in innovation, we deliver intelligent, technology-led facilities management solutions tailored to our customers’ needs. Whether it’s the big picture or day-to-day operations, we work in close partnership with our clients to deliver consistently exceptional outcomes. Our purpose is simple but powerful: to create a better world at work. Powered by our unique insight platform, One Data World, we use data-driven intelligence to make informed decisions that adapt to the ever-evolving requirements of our customers. This enables us to deliver smarter, more efficient workplaces—optimising asset performance, reducing environmental impact, and ensuring full compliance, safety, and assurance at every step. We believe our employees are our greatest asset. That’s why we invest in wellbeing, employee engagement, and inclusion—ensuring every member of our team feels valued and empowered to thrive. EM COR UK is accelerating its growth in the data centre sector, and we’re looking for a dynamic, results-driven Bid Manager with estimating experience to help shape our future. Reporting directly to the Director of Data Centres, you will manage the bid lifecycle from pre-qualification through to tender submission — ensuring commercially robust, innovative, and client focused solutions to our Design – Build – Manage – Maintain service model are provided.

In this key role, your expertise will provide essential technical insight, enabling you to liaise confidently with clients, designers, and operational teams to develop value for money and compelling proposals for mission critical infrastructure solutions. You will help shape the future of EMCOR UK’s integrated offering by delivering proposals that reflect sector leading standards in safety, quality, and standards.

Role Responsibilities

• Bid Management - Lead and coordinate the full bid process from initial opportunity assessment through to submission, ensuring all client requirements are met and internal governance is followed.
• Estimating - Prepare and review cost estimates, budgets, and tender price submissions for data centre projects — leveraging market knowledge, supplier input, and historical data to ensure accuracy and competitiveness.
• Collaboration - Work closely with pre construction, design, operations, commercial, and procurement teams to produce cohesive, fully integrated bid proposals.
• Client Engagement - Build strong relationships with prospective and existing clients, understanding their needs and positioning EMCOR UK’s solutions as the best fit for their project and operational requirements.
• Solution Development - Support the evolution of our design – Build – Manage – Maintain proposition for the data centre sector, shaping technical solutions that meet both client expectations and EMCOR UK’s service capabilities.
• Documentation & Presentation - Create clear, concise, and persuasive bid documentation and presentations that communicate technical details and value propositions.
• Market Intelligence - Stay abreast of market trends, client drivers, and competitor strategies in the data centre and mission critical environments to inform bid strategy and pricing.
• Risk Management - Identify and assess commercial and technical risks in bids, proposing mitigation measures and ensuring alignment with corporate risk policies.
• Reporting - Provide regular updates on bid pipeline, win/loss analysis, and key market insights to the Director of Data Centres.
• Line management of the estimating team

Qualifications & Experience

• Significant demonstrable experience of leading Estimating & Bid Activity within a critical infrastructure environment that includes M&E, Civils, Fit Out, Asset Life Cycle replacement and Energy – ideally across the telecoms and Data centre sectors, within a value range of £0.5m - £15m.
• Exceptional ability to manage multiple bids to tight deadlines with precision.
• Strong interpersonal skills to work across disciplines and build relationships at all levels both external and internal.
• Deep understanding of commercial terms, risk management, and pricing strategies in a built environment.
• Strong communicator with outstanding written and verbal skills, able to present complex technical and commercial concepts clearly and persuasively, with high drive and energy levels.
• Attention to detail in cost models, tender documentation, and bid submissions.
• Ability to contribute to the continuous improvement of the Design – Build – Manage – Maintain model to meet evolving sector demands.
• Strong understanding of the full-service lifecycle—design, build, manage, and maintain—especially within data centre and telecoms; ideally degree qualified to degree level (or equivalent experience) with 5+ years of sector-specific experience and a strong performance history.
• Familiar with current estimating methods, commercial governance, and project management systems.
• Skilled in developing trusted relationships, with a customer-first mindset and consultative approach.
• Organised, tenacious, energetic, proactive, and solutions-focused—able to drive progress and deliver results.
• Technically qualified to a minimum of HNC.

Benefits

• 25 Days holidays + Bank holidays
• Holiday Buy Scheme - up to 5 days a year
• Industry leading Maternity & Paternity Policies
• Refer a Friend scheme – worth £500 per referral
• GEMS – Internal recognition scheme with vouchers for Amazon and retail/dining
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities, including opportunities for progression
• Access to Flex Benefits: Discount Shopping, Gym, Mobile, Family Activities, Insurance, Dining Experience, Car Leasing and Breakdown Cover
• Bike To Work Scheme
• Paid volunteering and charity days
• Medicash - Health cash plan - Benefits covered include dental, optical, physiotherapy and health & wellbeing

Employee Assistance Programme - Offering guidance and advice on Personal, Health, Legal and Financial queries

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing
• Industries: Facilities Services

Note: This description is adapted from the provided content and retains core job information while removing extraneous formatting and boilerplate. The role is for a Bid Manager with estimating experience focused on data centre and mission critical environments.