Bid Manager

2 days ago

Bournemouth, Bournemouth, United Kingdom Draken Europe Full time


Draken Europe offers exciting careers that matter.

We believe that mission success does not start with the mission itself. It begins with our people.

Draken also believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.
 

The Role

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Bid Manager to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the Director of Bid Management & Support, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, compelling proposals that help us secure and retain work across a diverse client base.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys leading complex bids from qualification through to contract award.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end bid process, ensuring compliance with Draken's Business Win procedures and Shipley best practices.
  • Develop bid strategies, manage resources, and oversee proposal preparation to deliver winning submissions on time.
  • Assemble and guide multi-disciplinary bid teams, collaborating with stakeholders across sales, delivery, finance, legal, and external partners.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring exceptional quality and timely progress through reviews and approvals.
  • Implement and improve bid governance and processes, sharing best practices across the business.


Experience / skills / qualifications

  • Proven track record in bid and proposal management, ideally within Defence or Aerospace.
  • Minimum 5 years' experience in complex bid environments.
  • Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and commercial acumen.
  • Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal—with the ability to craft persuasive proposals.
  • Expert user of MS Office and exceptional organisational skills.

Our employee values

Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.

At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken Europe team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.

We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.

In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.



About You

About Us

Whether it is adversarial support, electronic attack or customised rotary-wing training, we offer the most accurate and advanced readiness training in the industry. Our vast, differentiated fleet, cutting edge hardware and experienced instructors are engaged to help your mission take off.
 
Being ready is not only a matter of when. But where. We provide services in the UK, US and across the NATO countries. Making sure that our allies can manoeuvre around defeat and prepare to prevail.

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