Solution Lead

NATS Ltd; Dubai; Presencial; AED 300 000 - 520 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

NATS Ltd. is seeking a senior bid leader to shape and win solutions for global customers. You will drive opportunity lifecycles, craft compelling offerings, and align them with Growth strategy across regions. This role blends ATM expertise with commercial acumen to accelerate growth in international markets.

The ideal candidate will coordinate across Sales, Bidding and Delivery teams, manage stakeholder expectations, and deliver high-quality responses within tight bid timelines.

Qualificações

• Air Traffic Management expertise with deep domain knowledge (ATC, Safety, Engineering, Analytics).
• Commercially and financially astute, balancing customer needs with NATS objectives.
• Able to design new solutions or adapt existing ones to meet customer needs.
• Disciplined prioritisation and planning to meet bid timescales.
• Excellent written English for clear scope description to diverse stakeholders.
• Understanding of global ATM market trends and emerging technologies.
• Proven track record delivering high quality solutions on time, cost, quality.

Responsabilidades

• Lead development of innovative, competitive and deliverable technical/operational solutions for Growth opportunities.
• Translate customer needs into clearly defined solutions aligned with Growth capabilities and strategy.
• Coordinate with bid team to ensure customer, P&L and commercial requirements are met.
• Prepare solution contributions for proposal documents.
• Work with Sales, Bidding and Delivery to craft persuasive proposal content.
• Ensure solutions comply with Growth processes.
• Provide expert support to delivery teams; lead or contribute to implementation.
• Identify and drive efficiencies in planning and delivery across the contract lifecycle.
• Act as Growth ambassador, engaging stakeholders across teams and regions.

Conhecimentos

ATM expertise

Commercial & financial acumen

Solution design & adaptation

Bid timing prioritisation

Excellent written English

Global ATM market understanding

Bidding & pricing awareness

Lead virtual cross-disciplinary teams

Ferramentas

Microsoft Office

Descrição da oferta de emprego

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2 million flights each year. It provides air traffic control services, as well as a wide range of commercial solutions in over 30 countries internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

Role Purpose

This is a key role within the NATS Growth business, focused on shaping winning bids & solutions, and delivering for global customers. This role will work across the opportunity lifecycle — supporting in early engagement; crafting compelling, customer-focused offerings that align with NATS Growth strategic goals. The role combines ATM expertise, strategic insight, and commercial acumen to drive growth in global markets.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the development of innovative, competitive and deliverable technical and operational solutions for all Growth opportunities, with a strong focus on shaping compelling customer value propositions.
• Translate customer needs and requirements into clearly defined solutions, ensuring alignment with NATS’ Growth capabilities, commercial strategy, and risk appetite.
• Coordinating with the wider bid team to ensure that customer, P&L and commercial requirements are clearly understood and met.
• Writing and/or coordinating the preparation of the required solution contributions to proposal documents.
• Work collaboratively with Sales, Bidding and Delivery teams to develop persuasive proposal content, including executive summaries, technical responses, and solution architectures.
• Ensure solutions are compliant with Growth processes.
• Provide expert support to delivery teams, and where appropriate, lead or contribute directly to solution implementation.
• Identify and drive financial and operational efficiencies in the planning and delivery of solutions throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Act as a Growth ambassador, leading stakeholder engagement to create and sustain alliances across teams, regions & customers that support strategic business objectives.

Qualifications, Skills and Personal Attributes

• A strong technical leader that can rapidly build, direct, motivate, and prioritise cross-disciplinary teams to collaborate on solutions.
• Air Traffic Management expertise with deep domain knowledge in one of more areas (such as ATC, Safety, Engineering, Analytics).
• A commercially and financially astute individual that can balance customer needs and budget with NATS commercial objectives.
• Ability to design a new solution or adapt an existing solution when the core solutions/products do not fulfil a customer’s needs.
• A disciplined approach to prioritisation and planning to ensure that bid timescales are fulfilled in a timely manner.
• Excellent written English with an ability to describe the scope of work clearly, succinctly, and unambiguously for a customer or stakeholder that may not be technically proficient
• Understanding of global ATM market trends, customer drivers, and emerging technologies including digital towers, UTM, and sustainability initiatives.
• Proven track record in delivering high quality solutions to time, cost, quality.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong commercial awareness, with experience in bidding, proposal development, and pricing strategies.
• Culturally aware and sensitive to different business practices, communication styles and customer expectations.
• Highly self-motivated, organised, and able to lead virtual teams to meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Additional Vacancy Information:

Please note, if invited to interview, a skills assessment will be set by the Hiring Manager.

This role requires flexibility across different time zones, with international stakeholders. International travel as required.

We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally.

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, lifeexperiencesand backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.

Please note: All staff at NATS are subject to UK Security Vetting and Clearance (SC) and must maintain valid clearance throughout employment. We are unable to progress applications where an applicant does not meet eligibility requirements for clearance. For international roles, all employees will need to provide address history, reference history and a police clearance certificate.