Job Title: Bid & Compliance Lead

Location: Stockport

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 (Open to negotiation)

Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am–5:00pm

Employment Type: Permanent, On-Site

Role overview

An established UK-based specialist contractor is seeking a Bid & Compliance Lead to take ownership of the company’s compliance framework and bid coordination activities.

This is a hands-on role responsible for managing the Integrated Management System (IMS), maintaining audit readiness, and coordinating compliant, evidence-based tender submissions across public and private sector clients. The role works closely with operational teams and senior management to ensure systems, processes and documentation remain current, robust and effective.

Key responsibilities

Bids & Frameworks

• Monitor tender portals and identify relevant public and private sector opportunities

• Coordinate bid and framework submissions, including managing timelines, clarifications and portal uploads

• Draft, tailor and quality-check written tender responses against client requirements and scoring criteria

• Coordinate technical and evidential inputs from internal departments and senior management

• Maintain bid libraries including standard responses, CVs, case studies and project evidence

• Track framework renewals and upcoming tender opportunities

• Record bid outcomes, feedback and lessons learned to support continuous improvement

Compliance & Management Systems

• Own and maintain the company’s Integrated Management System, including:

  • ISO 9001 (Quality)

  • ISO 14001 (Environmental)

  • ISO 45001 (Health & Safety)

• Coordinate internal audits and manage corrective actions to completion

• Prepare evidence packs for external audits, accreditations and certification renewals

• Support and coordinate management review meetings, including reporting and actions

• Manage non-conformances, incidents and improvement actions, ensuring issues are investigated and closed out

• Maintain compliance documentation including training records, licences, insurances and statutory records

• Support environmental and waste compliance, including duty of care and sustainability evidence

• Ensure controlled documents remain current, approved and communicated

Experience and skills

• Previous experience in a Bid, Compliance, Quality, IMS or Governance role

• Practical working knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 (lead or internal auditor experience desirable)

• Experience coordinating or contributing to technical, evidence-led tender submissions

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines

• Confident working across departments to obtain information and evidence

• Clear written communication skills with attention to detail

• Comfortable operating at both operational and management level

Benefits

• Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Discretionary annual bonus based on company performance

• Death in service benefit (subject to underwriting and successful completion of probation)

• Inclusion in the company’s permanent health insurance scheme (subject to underwriting and successful completion of probation)