Sustainment Bid Lead

**Job title**:Sustainment Bid Lead

**Location**:Samlesbury. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements

**Salary**: £52,084+ depending on skills and experience

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Supporting bid activities, as well as offering support to other teams on bid activities
- Leading and supporting a team of UK bid resource to ensure appropriate delegation of bid workload in order to support development
- Working with internal BAE Systems cross functional team to ensure an integrated approach to proposal writing
- Managing stakeholders across multiple functions and disciplines, to drive effective outcomes in alignment with strategy
- Building and maintaining business lead relationships to ensure seamless clearance of bids and proposals through to contract mobilisation
- Supporting continuous improvement with the wider F-35 team to guarantee the challenges faced through Sustainment bids are met with a collaborative approach
- Supporting an effective transition from individual work stream focussed bid teams to a shared service model, by leveraging common and effective bid experiences across all delivery teams
- Developing the project management skills and capabilities of the team and through the project management function

**Your skills and experiences**:

- Prior experience in bid and proposal environment or position, while working to tight deadlines is essential
- Ability to adapt communication styles to suit the audience, and interface with people at different levels and skills within the organisation
- Ability to efficiently and effectively compile and present data, prepare reports and presentations
- Working knowledge and experience of project management and control principles and process reporting would be advantageous
- Self-starting capability and possess the skills to identify problems and resolve them unilaterally

**Benefits**:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

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**The Sustainment Growth and Strategy team**:
The team support the F-35 sustainment bid function in the launch, monitoring, and delivery of bids and proposals.

**Why BAE Systems?**

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.”

**Closing Date**:29th February 2024

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