Senior Tender Planner

Senior Tender Planner

Bouygues UK have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Tender Planner to work at our central London offices. You will be part our London / South East Residential team. Great opportunity to work with a fantastic and dynamic team with excellent opportunities to develop and grow within the business.

Job Purpose and Scope:
Manage the pre-construction stage of project planning contributing positively to winning new work for Business.

Accountabilities and key tasks (not complete list):

• Manage the planning process in line with the BYUK Management System
• Provide planning support to the Preconstruction team ensuring all programme, logistics and delivery aspects are compliant with relevant legislation, tender brief, and contract requirement
• Engage with the Planning manager, Construction Director/Manager to discuss options, sequence, and methodology
• Analyse Tender documents and identify required planning responses
• Investigate and recommend alternative and innovative solutions with change impact assessment
• Chair and minute programme, logistic and delivery workshops
• Assess programme and delivery risks and recommend mitigation
• Engage with the supply chain to verify programme issues.
• Support and contribute to the tender quality submission with written responses to
• Provide planning input to the tender submission primarily a whole life programme, logistics plan and method statement
• Support 4D digital aspects of tender evaluation and submission
• Provide a planning handover pack for the delivery team

Essential criteria:

Essential

• Proven Technical knowledge/experience relevant to job role
• Good commercial knowledge of the sector
• Contractual awareness
• Full understanding of Planning principles
• Understanding and demonstrable skills in the use of Asta Programme software
• Planning skills and ability to prioritise tasks and monitors progress against plan, making alterations where necessary
• Effective communications skills with colleagues and clients in a warm and persuasive way both formally and informally.

Desirable:

• 4D planning experience

Why Bouygues UK

Day in day out our teams deliver some of the most technically innovative and challenging projects across the UK and the world. With a strong corporate culture our values reflect how we operate with Respect, Excellence, Courage, Integrity and Passion. 

We offer competitive basic salaries coupled with generous company benefits including:

• 26 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days
• 2 paid volunteering days a year
• pension scheme
• life insurance
• private medical insurance
• BY Extra – opt into lifestyle benefits

Bouygues Construction UK was awarded the Top Employers United Kingdom and Top Employers Europe certification. Together with our partners and clients, Bouygues UK delivers award-winning construction, development and regeneration projects to the most exacting standards across public and commercial private sectors.

Bouygues UK is part of the Bouygues Group, a diverse global business which operates in the construction, engineering, energy, media and telecommunications markets. With annual sales of over €32 billion and operations in over 100 countries, the financial strength of our group is a key differentiator in these challenging economic times. 

Be Yourself!

Here at Bouygues we value the creativity and innovation that our diverse workforce brings, encouraging people from all backgrounds, particularly those from underrepresented communities to apply. By joining us, you will be inspired to bring your full self to the workplace, speak up and share your unique ideas. You will also have an opportunity to join our employee led diversity & inclusion communities such as WeLink (women network), Encompass (LGBTQ+), Kaleidoscope (BAME), Disability and Wellness peer support network, Parents and Carers network.