Bid Coordinator

Job Title:                     Bid Coordinator

Location:                     Bristol, UK – Hybrid Working Patterns Available

Compensation:           £39,607 - £48,046

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF72723

Shape winning bids that protect the nation

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together.

If you join us, you can play your part as a Bid Coordinator at our Bristol site, near Bristol, Bristol.

A career at Babcock means contributing to something that truly matters. From naval capability to complex defence engineering, our work supports national security, protects critical infrastructure and enables frontline services. Joining our Business Growth team places you at the heart of this mission — helping to secure projects that make a real difference, today and for generations to come.

The role

As a Bid Coordinator, you’ll play a vital role in shaping high‑quality, competitive bids that help Babcock grow sustainably across defence, aerospace and engineering markets. You’ll support the end-to-end bid management process, working collaboratively with bid managers, writers, designers and technical experts to deliver compelling customer responses.

This is an exciting opportunity to build your career within a FTSE 100 organisation, gaining valuable exposure to complex defence procurement, senior stakeholders and high-profile programmes. You’ll deepen your expertise in bid management, develop your professional capability and grow your career in a collaborative, supportive and high‑performing environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Coordinating bid activities in line with Babcock’s Business Management System and Business Growth policies
• Managing bid schedules, kick-off meetings, reviews and stakeholder workshops to ensure timely, high-quality submissions
• Supporting multiple bids simultaneously, tracking actions, inputs and approvals across diverse teams
• Maintaining customer procurement portals and ensuring accurate, compliant documentation
• Producing bid reports and updates that inform progress, risks and decision-making

The role is 37 hours per week, based at our Bristol site. Hybrid working patterns are available, balancing flexibility with business and team needs. Travel to other Babcock and customer sites will be expected to support bid activity.

Essential experience of the Bid Coordinator:

• Proven experience in a Bid Coordinator role, ideally with 1–2 years’ experience
• Experience supporting United Kingdom Ministry of Defence bids within a prime defence contractor environment
• Knowledge of defence procurement processes and contracting mechanisms
• Confidence working with multiple stakeholders across business development and technical teams
• Willingness and ability to travel within the United Kingdom and internationally, including occasional periods away from base location

Qualifications for the Bid Coordinator:

• Essential: Educated to A level or equivalent
• Desirable: Membership of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals
• Desirable: Bid or Proposal Foundation or Practitioner Certification

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 30/04/2026