Bid Manager

5 days ago

Southampton, United Kingdom BAE Systems Full time €42,000

Job Title: Bid Manager

Location: Broad Oak. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £42,000 dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing:

Your main responsibilities as a Bid Manager will involve:

  • Leading all aspects of the planning and execution of the overall bid cycle/governance plan (for assigned bids)
  • Managing the bid development in a timely and efficient manner, schedules and oversees key reviews
  • Defining, tailoring and implementing a suitable Bid process to fit the Opportunity
  • Generating and gaining approval for implementing a realistic Bid Plan and Bid Schedule (including resources, budgets, responsibilities and task allocation)
  • Managing the business approval process at all required delegated authority levels, supports any security and export approvals
  • Leading the multi-disciplined Bid team and ensures the entire team is kept appraised of developments in requirements and bid status, on a day to day basis
  • Interacting with bid stakeholders at all appropriate levels across multiple organisations and keeps the Business Leadership Team informed and engaged, including timely escalation of issues needing resolution
  • Coordinating the Costing and Pricing activity, including acting as an independent challenger to keep the team focused on meeting the Price to Win

Your skills and experiences:

  • Qualified to Degree standard or equivalent
  • Has practical and relevant work experience
  • Proven bid management and project management skills, ideally within a complex procurement environment
  • Proven experience of supporting RFIs, ITT/ITN/RFP/RFQ or Framework bids in a competitive environment

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Maritime and Land BD Operations team:

The role sits in the Maritime and Land BD Operations team that resides in Maritime Services but provides business winning support across the Maritime and Land sector providing a variety of campaigns and bids to support.

The BD Operations team has a number of bid management, proposal management and proposal coordination roles that this role will sit alongside as part of the wider team. You will support bids across the sector, providing you the opportunity to support long-term strategic campaigns and shorter turn around bids.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks

Closing Date: 6th January 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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