Bid Manager

Role Overview

• Manage bids across Business Units in accordance with the company procedures.
• Participation in the early Bid Phase, this could involve customer liaison and supporting initial requirement / scope capture and definition.
• Tracking, monitoring progress, management and delivering allocated bids and projects in terms of: Time, Cost and Quality.
• Leading engineering and operational bid teams as required in creating compelling and competitive technical, commercial and financial proposals in support of offers to customers.
• Management of risk in accordance with company procedures to ensure all technical, commercial and financial risks are considered and included in bids.
• Preparation of al Bid Process Documentation, including: Bid Initiation; Bid Approval and Contract Acceptance.
• Ensure a seamless transition from the Bid to the Project Delivery Teams, assisting with Project Start-up and Initiation Documentation and attending Project Kick Off meetings.
• With SME support, to generate robust costings (WBS, Hours, Purchased Items), and facilitating stakeholder cost reviews in support of Bid Approval.
• Continuous improvement: development of standardised bid libraries: proposal content; standardised costs & pricing; management of bid lessons learned.
• Stakeholder communication and management (both internal and external to customers and suppliers).
• Early and clear reporting, raising and escalation of bid issues, risks, and potential problems.
• Support the implementation of Best Practice bid management across the company and identify opportunities for improving processes and efficiency.
• Support the project management team in process streamlining and improvement.

Requirements

• Degree qualified in an engineering, science, technology, mathematics or related discipline
• Recognised Project Management training and qualification
• Desirable
• Ability to lead teams and drive deliverables in challenging technical environments
• Able to work with a wide experience level from junior engineers to well-regarded technical consultants
• Financially astute, able to define and manage bid budgets
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Confident in prioritisation and managing concurrent workstreams
• Ability to manage own workload and work to deadlines
• Be an effective communicator, both written and verbal
• A proactive and assertive nature with the motivation to succeed
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• General experience within the aerospace, marine and defence engineering environment
• Experience of bid and project management in engineering technical services provision and / or full life cycle development programmes
• Experience of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as Epicor
• Desirable

Tech Stack

• ERP

Benefits

• Competitive package
• Regular events held throughout the year for social mixing