Senior Business Development Manager

MUA Group is an independent electricity and gas distribution network operator, connecting homes and businesses to essential energy infrastructure. We’re also a regulated water and wastewater company, adopting water and wastewater networks across Britain.

Our mission at MUA is to help build better and more sustainable places to live and work, by adopting and operating multi-utility networks nationwide.

Business Development Manager – mua

What You Will Be Doing

• Build long lasting relationships with clients and relevant individuals to process and establish tender enquires and tender submissions.
• Follow the submission of bids to attend meetings, negotiate and record all changes to the bid, involving the construction phase team as appropriate and finally hand the preconstruction phase of the project over to the construction phase leadership and delivery team.
• Liaise with Commercial Manager and Business Unit Heads on resources and business processes, to ensure that the preconstruction resource pool is an appropriate size, with suitable blend of skill-sets, for the projected workload.
• Manage the bid process from PQQ to Client Submission
• To drive the direction to new markets inline with the Murphy Values
• Ensure disciplines work interactively and communicate effectively and specific outputs are produced consistently and to appropriate standards.
• Reviews, challenges and approves project estimates at the appropriate level; giving due consideration to level of design and available information, risks, planning, support services, SHES and 3rd parties.
• Works with site commercial teams to ensure estimating budgets & programmes are reflective of actual delivery experience.
• Represents the preconstruction team at management meetings and interfaces with other departments / teams.
• Promote interaction with the appropriate functional leaders for to facilitate successful development of solutions to problems and estimates.
• Ensure the preconstruction team proactively manages knowledge to facilitate continuous improvement & innovation.
• Upkeep resource databases in estimating software packages with latest available resource cost information.

• Multi Utility Sector experience preferred but not essential
• Working in the Industrial and Commercial Markets
• Knowledge of iDNO/DNO Networks
• Forward thinking, mature attitude, with the ability to build long term commercial relationships
• Great track record as a Business Development professional
• Experience of bid-writing/tendering
• Valid UK driving licence

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £3.3b and £39m Invested in environmentally friendly plant there really is #MoretoMurphy

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Lorna Rhodes on 07801 960464 to discuss in more detail.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK