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🕒 January 7

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Boomering Inc

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

B2B • SaaS • Productivity

Boomering Inc. is a rapidly growing company that specializes in offshoring solutions, helping businesses achieve success through customizable services tailored to their unique needs. The company focuses on simplicity, transparency, and smart solutions, and is dedicated to ensuring the highest level of service and data security, evidenced by its ISO 27001 accreditation. With a team of over 500 skilled professionals serving more than 90 international clients, Boomering offers a cost-effective approach to scaling operations with no lock-in contracts.

📋 Description

• Lead the estimating function, taking ownership of tendering activities from initial enquiry through to successful contract award. • Identify, pursue, and secure new business opportunities in line with company growth objectives and commercial strategy. • Work closely with directors and senior management to provide commercial insight, pricing advice, and bid strategy recommendations. • Monitor planning portals, frameworks, and procurement platforms to identify suitable tender opportunities. • Review tender, contract, and pre-construction documentation to assess scope, risk, compliance, and commercial viability. • Lead the preparation and submission of PQQs, SQs, capability statements, and tender returns to a high professional standard. • Manage the full tender process, ensuring all submissions are accurate, competitive, compliant, and delivered within deadlines. • Prepare detailed quantity take-offs, cost plans, and robust estimates for structural repair, refurbishment, and associated works. • Build rates from first principles, including labour, plant, materials, subcontractor input, preliminaries, and risk allowances. • Issue and manage subcontractor and supplier enquiries, analyse quotations, and secure best-value procurement solutions. • Develop scopes of works, technical proposals, value engineering options, and detailed contractor submissions. • Lead bid adjudication reviews, presenting key assumptions, exclusions, risks, and recommendations to senior management prior to submission. • Attend client meetings to discuss project requirements, clarify scope, explain proposals, and strengthen client relationships. • Facilitate coordination meetings with operational and delivery teams to review live and tender-stage projects, monitor budgets, and align commercial objectives. • Liaise with clients, consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams throughout the pre-construction, bidding, and handover stages. • Review drawings, specifications, and contract conditions to identify cost risks, opportunities, and programme implications. • Oversee project handover to delivery teams, ensuring all commercial, technical, and contractual information is clearly communicated. • Review profit analysis reports, tender outcomes, and project feedback to improve estimating accuracy, cost planning, and margin performance. • Produce cost comparisons, benchmarking data, budget forecasts, and commercial reports to support decision-making. • Maintain and improve supplier, subcontractor, and pricing databases to support efficient and competitive estimating. • Drive continuous improvement in estimating systems, bid processes, templates, and reporting standards. • Manage, mentor, and support junior estimators, allocating workload and maintaining high standards of accuracy, quality, and performance across the team. • Promote commercial awareness, best practice, and a high-performance culture within the estimating and pre-construction function.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field (RICS accreditation is advantageous but not essential). • At least 10 years of proven experience in a similar estimating role. • Strong tendering experience, with the ability to manage the full bid lifecycle. • Demonstrated experience in preparing and submitting PQQs and tender documents. • Strong bid writing experience, ideally within the UK construction market; candidates with relevant US or Australian market experience will also be considered. • Good working knowledge of construction contracts within the Building and Civil Engineering sectors. • Experience in supervising or mentoring junior estimators • Strong analytical, commercial, and financial acumen. • Excellent organisational, time management, and communication skills. • A proactive and detail-oriented, capable of managing multiple tenders simultaneously. • Proficiency in Microsoft office, AutoCAD, build exact or price a job or similar • Positive attitude with a strong team player mindset. • Ability to align with and contribute to the company’s culture and values.

🏖️ Benefits

• Genuinely caring Leadership Team • Competitive salary package • Company-provided full set-up for desktop/laptop with a back-up internet • HMO on the first day of hire • 15 Vacation Leaves and 5 Sick Leaves • Annual Performance Reviews • Unlimited Employee Referral Incentives • Employee Loan Facilities • Social Clubs and Interest Workshops • Company events where you get a chance to win amazing prizes and be rewarded for your outstanding performance. • Statutory Benefits: Maternity, Paternity, and Solo Parent Leaves, Magna Carta for Women, and Premium Pays