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 civil and power projects across Lebanon and the region. You will drive bid strategy, pricing, and technical proposals to win complex infrastructure contracts.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the full tender cycle from pre‑qualification through bid/no‑bid decisions, clarifications, submission, and post‑tender negotiations.
• Direct estimation teams on quantity take‑offs, unit‑rate building, 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 for technical offers.
• Review FIDIC and bespoke contract conditions, flag commercial risks and prepare qualifications and deviations.
• Coordinate with operations, procurement, finance and plant/equipment teams to validate cost assumptions.
• Manage bid bonds, guarantees, insurances and tender logistics.
• Maintain a rates database from executed projects and handle JV/consortium bid structures.

Required profile

• 20+ years of tendering/estimation experience with EPC or civil contractors.
• Proven 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, equipment costs and site overheads.
• Strong command of FIDIC contract forms from the contractor’s perspective.
• Experience managing subcontractor/supplier pricing and negotiations.
• Bachelor’s in Civil or Electrical Engineering; MBA or QS certification 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

• FIDIC contract expertise
• Cost estimation and pricing
• Quantity take‑off
• Subcontractor negotiation
• Construction methodology development