Bid Manager

1 week ago

Reading, Reading, United Kingdom Thales Full time

Location : Crawley, Reading or Bristol - hybrid working arrangement (3 days per week in the office vs. 2 days from home)

The Opportunity:

Are you an experienced Bid Manager who enjoys team collaboration and problem solving? Are you looking for your next opportunity with excellent learning and exposure prospects, working on a wide range of bids across the company? At Thales we offer a great opportunity to use your talents and experience to lead and deliver high value, varied bids within a high performing bid organisation.

What the role has to offer:

  • The opportunity to work within one of Thales UK's fastest growing and highest profile organisations, with excellent opportunities to raise your profile and broaden your network.
  • The opportunity to work across multiple Thales National Entities, gain experience of a wide variety of product lines and their integration to support the capability development of Navies around the world.
  • Full representation and accountability for leading large, complex bids
  • An opportunity to develop and promote Thales bid competitiveness internally as well as externally (customers and consortia)
  • Allows you to be instrumental in driving the transformational change that will lead Thales into an exciting future.
  • Working with a high performing team who will support your learning and development
  • 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
  • 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
  • Life cover
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
  • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

Key responsibilities:

  • Embedding a strong sense of delivery accountability and a proactive risk and opportunity management culture (for both 'winability' and 'deliverability') at all levels of the Bid team
  • Creating and controlling the Bid schedule and resource plan; leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to achieve key milestones and on time proposal submissions while adhering to Thales processes.
  • Coordination of proposal development, including the use of colour reviews as appropriate
  • Establishing and controlling the requirements baseline (technical and non-technical), including compliance traceability, allocation to Work Packages and the end to end estimating process
  • Ensuring the creation of robust Initial Project Baselines for delivery post-contract award
  • Tailoring and application of Bid Governance, including Bid Stage Gates, Bid Reviews and Project Characterisation
  • Coordination and control of the Master Assumptions, Dependencies and Exclusions List (MADEL),
  • Ensuring appropriate focus on cash management and achieving a positive net cash profile associated with the Initial Project baseline
  • Promoting and enabling left-shifting E.g. solutions options and selection, Make/Team/Buy decisions, Project execution strategies
  • Leading and coordinating PQQ responses, including reviews, governance and final sign-off

About you:

  • A proven track record of leading successful multi-entity high value and strategic bids
  • Familiarity with best practice including Shipley process.
  • Experience in leading, motivating and influencing multi-disciplinary and international teams
  • Experience managing internal stakeholders and customer/supplier/partner relationships
  • A proactive, can-do attitude to seek out solutions and maximise customer value
  • Experience constructing compelling proposals and/or solutions that meet customer needs
  • Efficiently applying formal bid gate reviews, ensuring that business risk is appropriately managed
  • Experience working in a complex, multi-site and international organisation
  • A willingness to travel to customer sites, both in the UK and abroad.
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1115711

Date Posted:

Posted 4 days ago

Expiration Date:

03/06/2024

Location:

Reading

Competitive

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