Lead Bid Manager in hybrid role focused on delivering bids for Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics team. Responsible for managing deadlines, costs, and stakeholder engagement.
Responsibilities
Build, lead, and manage an integrated bid team, scaling resources to deliver on the Master Bid Schedule and resolving resource or priority conflicts.
Lead and oversee end-to-end bid activities (OME/ISR/UWS), ensuring efficient and effective bid processes, clear strategies, timely proposal delivery, and maintained governance.
Champion a pragmatic, commercial, and programme-focused bid culture, promoting continuous improvement, collaboration, and practical best practices across the team.
Requirements
A proven track record of delivering successful bids in contexts relevant to Thales, working in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site organisation.
Full business lifecycle management, including capture, qualification and developing capture plans and winning strategies
Extensive client and stakeholder management
Comprehensive understanding of generic processes and techniques used to schedule bid management activities.
Comprehensive experience and understanding of the Bid Management process (including Change Control, Risk Management and Information Management).
Comprehensive experience and knowledge of the bid life cycle
Experience of working across boundaries, including knowledge of commercial management, finance functions.
Has as a minimum a working knowledge of industry standard approaches to bid management (such as Shipley Capture Bench).
Benefits
Performance-related bonus
Car cash allowance
Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
24 hours volunteering paid for
Private healthcare
Pension scheme
Life cover
24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
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