Senior Bid Manager – EPC & Infrastructure (Lebanon)

About the role

ICC Contractors, a leading EPC and infrastructure contractor in the Middle East, is looking for a senior Bid Manager to own the end‑to‑end tendering process for local and regional projects. You will drive bid strategy, pricing, and technical proposals, ensuring competitive and profitable submissions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the full tender cycle: pre‑qualification, analysis, bid/no‑bid recommendation, clarifications, submission, and post‑tender negotiations.
• Direct estimation teams on quantity take‑offs, unit‑rate build‑up, and pricing of civil, electromechanical and EPC scopes, including direct costs, indirects, preliminaries, risk and margin.
• Solicit, evaluate and negotiate subcontractor and supplier quotations; integrate procurement‑backed pricing.
• Develop construction methodology, execution programmes, and resource/equipment plans as part of the technical offer.
• Review FIDIC and bespoke contract conditions, flag commercial risks and prepare qualifications/deviations.
• Coordinate with operations, plant/equipment, procurement and finance to validate cost assumptions against site performance data.
• Manage bid bonds, guarantees, insurances and tender submission logistics.
• Maintain a rates database from executed projects and handle JV/consortium bid structures where applicable.

Required profile

• 20+ years of tendering/estimation experience with EPC or civil contractors.
• Proven track record of pricing and winning bids in roads, bridges, underground works, PV plants, substations, power plants or transmission lines.
• Deep knowledge of contractor cost structures, crew productivity rates, equipment costs and site overheads.
• Strong command of FIDIC contract forms from the contractor’s perspective.
• Experience managing subcontractor/supplier pricing and negotiations.
• Degree in Civil or Electrical Engineering; MBA or contract/QS certification is a plus.
• Fluent in English and Arabic; French a plus.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Lebanon and available for regional travel.

Required skills

• Cost estimation and pricing
• Quantity take‑off
• FIDIC contract knowledge
• Subcontractor and supplier negotiation