Hybrid Lead Bid Manager

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About the role

  • Lead Bid Manager in hybrid role focused on delivering bids for Thales Optronics and Missile Electronics team. Responsible for managing deadlines, costs, and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Build, lead, and manage an integrated bid team, scaling resources to deliver on the Master Bid Schedule and resolving resource or priority conflicts.
  • Lead and oversee end-to-end bid activities (OME/ISR/UWS), ensuring efficient and effective bid processes, clear strategies, timely proposal delivery, and maintained governance.
  • Champion a pragmatic, commercial, and programme-focused bid culture, promoting continuous improvement, collaboration, and practical best practices across the team.

Requirements

  • A proven track record of delivering successful bids in contexts relevant to Thales, working in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site organisation.
  • Full business lifecycle management, including capture, qualification and developing capture plans and winning strategies
  • Extensive client and stakeholder management
  • Comprehensive understanding of generic processes and techniques used to schedule bid management activities.
  • Comprehensive experience and understanding of the Bid Management process (including Change Control, Risk Management and Information Management).
  • Comprehensive experience and knowledge of the bid life cycle
  • Experience of working across boundaries, including knowledge of commercial management, finance functions.
  • Has as a minimum a working knowledge of industry standard approaches to bid management (such as Shipley Capture Bench).

Benefits

  • Performance-related bonus
  • Car cash allowance
  • Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
  • 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
  • Pension scheme
  • Life cover
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
  • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
  • Gym membership discounts

Job title

Lead Bid Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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