National Pre-Contracts Manager

We have an exceptional opportunity for a strategic, people-focused leader to join our Infrastructure Delivery team within T&I as a National Pre-Contracts Manager, reporting to the EGM Infrastructure Delivery. This is a career-defining, senior national leadership role and a new, elevated position that expands the scope and influence of the current function, recognising the growth potential in major infrastructure projects and positioning the business to lead in this sector.

The role provides national strategic direction across work winning, bid strategy, market engagement and tender governance, ensuring alignment between pipeline growth, delivery capability and organisational capacity. It plays a strategically critical role in securing the projects that underpin both current and future success of the ID business. The role sets standards, embeds governance and champions continuous improvement, while providing authoritative challenge to bid strategy, delivery methodology, estimating, programming and risk.

• Provide national strategic direction across work winning, bid strategy, market engagement and tender governance.
• Lead Bid & Tender, Submissions, Estimating and Capture teams to build a high-performing national capability.
• Set and embed standards and governance for bid and tender processes.
• Deliver authoritative challenge to bid strategy, delivery methodology, estimating, programming and risk.
• Build and lead a high-performing national team, driving accountability and national consistency.
• Challenge assumptions, improve bid quality and competitiveness across all disciplines.
• Show strong influencing, decision-making and stakeholder management skills, including challenging senior leaders and project teams.

• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in engineering, construction management, quantity surveying, commercial management, project management or business management.
• Strong leadership qualities and extensive senior-level experience leading complex work-winning, bid, tender or pre-contract functions within civil infrastructure, construction or allied sectors.
• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams across bid and tender, estimating, submissions and/or capture functions in a complex national environment.
• Strong experience in tender governance, pursuit strategy, estimating oversight, commercial challenge and resource prioritisation for major infrastructure opportunities.
• Experience operating at a strategic level across multiple sectors or regions, balancing growth ambition with delivery capability and risk discipline.
• Experience in the New Zealand infrastructure market, including exposure to Roads, Energy, Water and/or Rail.
• Strong strategic and commercial acumen, with a deep understanding of work-winning disciplines and the ability to challenge assumptions and improve bid quality.
• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams, set standards, drive accountability, and deliver national consistency.
• High levels of judgement, resilience and pace in deadline-driven environments.
• Strong commitment to Zero Harm, ethical conduct and continuous improvement.