Bid Finance Manager role shaping business prospects for Thales UK. Collaborating with teams to deliver winning proposals through cost engineering and financial oversight.
Responsibilities
Part of the Thales Bid Finance Team, delivering cost engineering and turning estimates into prices for Thales UK businesses
Explore, support and influence prospects, working with bid team members and Subject Matter Experts
Help shape a business winning costed approach
Continuously improve the value of the output used in Project and Bid validation and governance
Support estimate collation, management and cost to price modelling of business opportunities
Use and develop commercial awareness and stakeholder management to deliver high quality proposals
Work with capture, bid and projects/programmes teams as they define their approach
Generate robust and defendable costed solutions
Requirements
Degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience in bids, projects, engineering or finance
Experience of finance and performance metrics
Business acumen, demonstrated by commercial and financial awareness
Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
Ability to work in multi-stakeholder environment and create clear and achievable goals
Excellent organisation skills, capable of delivering to agreed timescales in a pressurised bidding environment, capable of appropriate attention to detail
Security Clearance (SC) required, ideally currently held.
Benefits
Performance-related bonus
Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
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
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