Bid Manager

1 Month ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Bid Manager will be responsible for managing specific bid activities to ensure the successful delivery of bids. This includes applying professional bid management capabilities, providing rigor to change control, demonstrating commercial awareness, and managing stakeholders. The role involves bringing structure, clarity, and governance to the bid management process, managing relationships with internal and external customers, and effectively managing multi-disciplinary bid teams to deliver high-quality proposals. The candidate will be involved in a fast-growing sector with opportunities for innovation and career growth.
Must have:
  • Project/Bid Management background.
  • Strong client and stakeholder management skills.
  • Understanding of the full bid lifecycle is preferable.
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and negotiation skills.
Perks:
  • Performance-related bonus
  • Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
  • 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 (grade dependent)
  • Pension scheme
  • Life cover
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
  • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
  • Gym membership discounts

Job Details

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Bid Manager

Glasgow - (hybrid working arrangement – 3 days per week on site)

Are you a skilled Project Manager interested in transitioning into the world of Bids? Are you ready to lead winning proposals and drive business growth? If so, we may just have the role for you!

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Bid Manager to join our Optronics and Missile Electronics (OME) UK team in Glasgow.

What the role has to offer:

  • You will be working in one of the UK’s fastest growing sectors, offering exciting opportunities, innovation and career growth.

  • Hybrid working (3 days in the office / 2 days from home)

Core Benefits:

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

  • Performance-related bonus

  • Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm

  • 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 (grade dependent)

  • Pension scheme

  • Life cover

  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

  • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

  • Gym membership discounts

Key responsibilities:

The purpose of this role is to be the person in charge of specific bid-management activities to ensure the successful delivery of a bid or several bids.

It requires professional bid management capabilities to be applied - giving rigour to change control, commercial awareness and stakeholder management.

This individual will be required to bring structure, clarity and governance to the process and discipline relating to bid management activities. It will require the successful management of the relationship with internal and external key UK and international customers and the effective management of multi-disciplinary bid teams to deliver high quality business winning proposal.

About you:

We are seeking a proactive and adaptable professional with a background in project/bid management, ideally within complex, multidisciplinary organisations.

The ideal candidate will have strong client and stakeholder management skills and preferably, an understanding of the full bid lifecycle.

The ideal candidate must possess strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to be a UK National and achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. If approved by the MOD, a dual national from a Non-ITAR country may be considered. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

Great journeys start here, apply now!

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