Senior Bid Manager

1 Month ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Bid Manager at Thales in Tubize, Belgium, you will lead and conduct internal processes related to the bid phase. This includes preparing bid plans, defining project baselines, contributing to customer negotiations, assessing risks, and managing bid pricing. You will also be responsible for defining project milestones, managing partners, and ensuring a successful transition to the project team. The role requires a customer-focused approach and excellent customer service skills. The ideal candidate should be organized, have strong leadership skills, be finance literate, and have experience in a high-tech environment.
Must have:
  • Lead and conduct internal bid phase processes.
  • Prepare Bid/Proposal and negotiate with the customer.
  • Define initial project baseline.
  • Assess risks and opportunities.
  • Manage bid pricing/costs.
Good to have:
  • Experience in public market.
  • Experience within international groups.
  • Knowledge of target markets.

Job Details

Location: Tubize, Belgium

We say HI*

*Human Intelligence – Welcome among Thales Team!

Thales in Belgium is part of an internationally leading technology group in the defence and security, aerospace as well as digital identity and security markets. In a world characterised by uncertainties, we ensure that our customers, partners and employees can pursue new paths with confidence. For a future we can all trust.

Say HI* – to your career as

Senior Bid Manager

At the Tubize site

In Tubize, you will join more than 250 colleagues recognized by domestic and international partners for expertise on products such as Radio Frequency (RF) Products, C4ISR, Crypto Global Solution, MACS (Aeronautical Intercom) and many others.

Today the Group employs more than 1,000 people across nine sites in Belgium. Discover all Thales activities in Belgium here.

Your mission

  • In general, lead and conduct internal processes related to the bid phase.
  • In particular, prepare the Bid/Proposal and contribute to the negotiation with the customer:
  • Prepare the Bid Plan, implement it,
  • Define the initial project baseline based on a viable solution and a clear project structure, providing the best winning response to the customer requirements, consistent with the business segment strategy,
  • Contribute to the negotiations with the Customers and the Main partners and Suppliers
  • Build, challenge and validate the bid contents based on the stakeholders’ inputs and commitments
  • Assess the risks and opportunities of the future project based on the stakeholders’ inputs , challenge and validate the way these risks will be mitigated and/or accounted for
  • Be accountable for bid pricing / costs in order to secure the deal
  • Based on the initial project baseline, define major milestones for delivery and acceptance, consolidate the costs and other financial parameters, and validate the whole project baseline for the bid.
  • Manage a network of partners, contribute to market intelligence and maintain customer request database.
  • Ensure successful transition to the project team : contribute to prepare, organise and validate the project launch.
  • In all contacts with potential customer, present an excellent Customer Service attitude.

We are looking forward to

  • Civil or industrial engineer, Business School Master Degree, MBA or equivalent by experience
  • Languages: French, Dutch and English (professional use required for the 3 languages)
  • Strong experience in bid management in a high-tech and complex environment
  • Transverse leadership, extremely organised, Learn quickly
  • Customer driven and quality oriented
  • Finance literate, business acumen
  • Experience in public market is a plus
  • Experience within international groups is a plus
  • Knowledge one or several target markets of the company is a strong asset
  • Stress resistant, autonomy, sense of initiative
  • Ability to manage multiple resources and yet meet the deadlines
  • Versatility and flexibility
  • Interdisciplinary and creative, end-to-end commitment, focused and persistent
  • Team player, listening and communication skills

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 81,000 employees on five continents. The Group is investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – Big Data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust.

For more than 20 years, Thales has pursued a robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy based on the highest international standards. The principles behind this policy are now captured in the company’s purpose of “building a future we can all trust”, which was adopted in 2020.

Say HI* – Your journey to us

At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? We are looking forward to your online application. Great journeys start here, apply now!

*Human Intelligence

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