Manager overseeing assessment and improvement of Welfare and Self - Reliance products and services. Ensures impactful delivery of humanitarian efforts worldwide with an emphasis on strategic evaluation and reporting.
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
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