Senior Programme and Bid Manager
| Posting date: | 08 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | £65,000 to £70,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 June 2026 |
| Location: | Enfield, London, EN3 7XQ |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Carbon60 |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BBBH177460_1778231079 |
Summary
Senior Programme & Bid Manager
Location: UK (with occasional UK & overseas travel)
We're seeking an experienced Senior Programme & Bid Manager to lead and govern a portfolio of complex programmes and bids within a technically demanding environment.
This is a high‑impact leadership role, accountable for bid strategy, programme execution, governance, and performance - from opportunity capture through contract award and into in‑life delivery.
What You'll Be Doing- Leading and inspiring a team of Programme Managers and Bid Managers, creating a high‑performance, accountable delivery culture
- Owning the overall health of the programme and bid portfolio, ensuring alignment with business strategy and customer priorities
- Providing senior leadership and governance across complex, multi‑stakeholder programmes and bids
- Establishing and maintaining robust programme management processes, proportionate to business size and risk
- Overseeing bid strategy, governance, resourcing, approvals, and handover into delivery
- Ensuring strong control of schedule, cost, risk, change, and benefits
- Balancing resources and priorities across live programmes and concurrent bids
- Identifying, managing, and escalating risks, issues, and opportunities
- Preparing and presenting monthly programme status reports to senior leadership
- Supporting commercial activities including cost estimates, budgets, and revenue forecasting
- Driving lessons learned, continuous improvement, and capability development
- Acting as a senior interface with customers, suppliers, and partners
- Leading performance management, succession planning, and talent development
- Proven leadership experience in programme and bid management within complex, multi‑disciplinary environments
- Strong track record of delivering major bids and programmes end‑to‑end
- Deep understanding of matrix organisations and cross‑functional leadership
- Excellent commercial, contractual, governance, and risk management capability
- Confident stakeholder management at senior customer and executive level
- Able to remain credible, decisive, and calm under pressure
- Customer‑focused, commercially aware, collaborative, and influential
- Strong background in project / programme management, ideally in a defence or regulated engineering environment
- Experience running bids and programmes from conception to delivery
- Exposure to international customers or export contracts
- Ability to manage budgets, forecasts, and financial performance
- Professional qualifications such as APM, MSP, PMP, PRINCE2 (or equivalent)
- Degree or HND in Project Management or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- APM accreditation an advantage
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.