Senior Bid Manager
2 months ago
Thales is seeking a highly skilled Senior Bid Manager to join our team in Glasgow or Reading. As a Senior Bid Manager, you will be responsible for leading specific bid-management activities to ensure the successful delivery of bids or a number of bids.
Key Responsibilities:- Participate in Bid Kick-Off meetings, providing bid management direction and engagement with the Bid Team.
- Manage the creation of bid deliverables and ensure review and governance, leading to the creation of a high-quality proposal.
- Work effectively with Capture Leaders to generate win themes that link customer needs with defined benefits of the Thales offering.
- Ensure that cost estimates/target budgets are provided with support of Systems Engineering/Product Management.
- Ensure that cost estimates are effectively reviewed to ensure competitive and winning pricing.
- Ensure that effective Gate Business Cases are prepared for specific opportunities.
- Support the Sales/Capture Lead in any customer negotiations and presentations.
- A proven track record of delivering successful project bids in contexts relevant to Thales – defence, heavy engineering, or construction sectors.
- Experience delivering bids to the value of £5-60 million minimum.
- Ideally experience of single-source government bidding (for repeat business).
- Strong negotiation skills with the ability to deal with customers, partners, suppliers, and other parts of the business (stakeholder management skills).
- Comprehensive experience and understanding of the Bid Management process (including Change Control, Risk Management, and Information Management).
- A minimum working knowledge of industry-standard approaches to bid management (such as Shipley Capture Bench).
- A competitive salary and benefits package, including 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), 24 hours volunteering paid for, private healthcare (grade dependent), pension scheme, life cover, 24/7 Employee Assistance Program, and access to mental wellbeing app.
Thales is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process.
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