Bid Director
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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Job details
- Experience
- 10+ years of progressive experience in construction estimating, pre-construction, or bid leadership roles.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
We are supporting a leading Real Estate Developer seeking an experienced Bid Director / Chief Estimator to lead our pursuit, estimating, and bid strategy for large-scale publicly funded construction projects. The Bid Director will oversee end-to-end bid development - ensuring proposals are accurate, competitive, compliant, aligned with the company’s strategic growth into public funded projects and most importantly ….successfully awarded.
The ideal candidate has deep experience in municipal, provincial, and broader public sector procurement environments and understands the complexity, compliance, and rigour these projects demand.
This is a huge opportunity to build out this Construction Management division of the larger company, with your expertise on how to navigate the bidding process to win project in the Residential and ICI sectors. Key Responsibilities
Bid Leadership & Strategy
The ideal candidate has deep experience in municipal, provincial, and broader public sector procurement environments and understands the complexity, compliance, and rigour these projects demand.
This is a huge opportunity to build out this Construction Management division of the larger company, with your expertise on how to navigate the bidding process to win project in the Residential and ICI sectors. Key Responsibilities
Bid Leadership & Strategy
- Lead the full bid cycle for projects ranging from $30M to $100M, ensuring high-quality, compliant, and competitive submissions.
- Develop and execute the organization’s public-sector bidding strategy, identifying opportunities that align with business goals.
- Oversee bid/no-bid analysis, risk assessments, value-engineering options, and commercial strategy.
- Direct all estimating efforts, including conceptual, schematic, and detailed estimates for large ca projects.
- Review and approve final estimates, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with market pricing.
- Analyze subcontractor and supplier pricing and negotiate optimal terms.
- Implement and maintain estimating best practices, cost databases, and standard templates.
- Manage the full RFP/RFQ/RFT response process, ensuring strict compliance with public-sector procurement rules and documentation requirements.
- Coordinate with legal and finance departments to review contract terms and associated risk.
- Lead debriefs, scoring analysis, and continuous improvement for future bids.
- Collaborate closely with pre-construction, design, operations, and executive teams to ensure cohesive bid packages.
- Maintain strong relationships with subcontractors, consultants, and industry partners.
- Track public-sector capital plans, infrastructure priorities, and procurement pipelines.
- Monitor cost trends, escalation factors, and competitive landscape in the GTA and Ontario markets.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in construction estimating, pre-construction, or bid leadership roles.
- Proven track record bidding and winning publicly funded construction projects in the $30M–$100M range.
- Strong expertise in construction management, lump-sum, and design-build procurement models.
- Deep understanding of public procurement processes, including evaluation criteria, compliance requirements, and contract structures.
- Ability to interpret drawings, specifications, addenda, and contract language.
- Exceptional leadership, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Proficiency with estimating software, cost databases, and proposal management tools.
- Leadership role with measurable impact on company growth.
- Opportunity to build and shape the division during a period of expansion.
- Collaborative, people-focused culture.
- Competitive compensation package.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Bid Director at MHB Group will lead the full bid process for large public construction projects, from finding opportunities to submitting winning proposals. They will direct estimates, manage subcontractor pricing and work with legal, finance and design teams to build the company's public-sector construction division.
Requirements
Candidates need 10 or more years in construction estimating, pre-construction or bid leadership, with a proven record of winning public projects worth $30M to $100M. They must know public procurement rules, construction management, lump-sum and design-build models, and estimating software.
Skills
- Construction estimating
- Bid strategy
- Bid/no-bid analysis
- Public procurement compliance
- RFP/RFQ/RFT response
- Construction management
- Lump-sum contracting
- Design-build procurement
- Cost databases
- Estimating software
- Proposal management tools
- Drawing and specification interpretation
- Contract review
- Subcontractor pricing negotiation
- Value engineering
- Risk assessment
- Negotiation
- Leadership
- Market intelligence
- Bid debriefs and scoring analysis
Categories
- Construction
- Real Estate
- Management & Leadership
- Consulting
- Government & Public Sector
Keywords
- bid director
- chief estimator
- construction estimating
- public sector procurement
- RFP
- RFQ
- RFT
- bid management
- pre-construction
- construction management
- design-build
- lump-sum
- cost estimating
- proposal management
- Ontario construction
- GTA construction
- municipal procurement
- infrastructure bidding
- value engineering
- subcontractor management
Seniority
Lead
Tools
- estimating software
- cost databases
- proposal management tools
Languages
- English