Senior Bid Manager – EPC & Infrastructure Projects

About the role

ICC Contractors, a leading EPC and infrastructure contractor in the Middle East, is seeking 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 for complex civil, power, and renewable‑energy works.

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 development, 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 contract conditions (FIDIC and bespoke), flag commercial and contractual risks, and prepare qualifications and 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.
• Build and 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 rates, equipment costs, temporary works, 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 (or equivalent); MBA or QS certification a plus.
• Fluent in English and Arabic; French a plus.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Lebanon; available for regional travel.

Required skills

• Tender analysis
• Cost estimation
• FIDIC contract knowledge
• Subcontractor negotiation
• Construction methodology planning
• Quantity take‑offs
• Unit‑rate calculation
• Pricing of civil and electromechanical scopes