Senior Bid Manager

Thales; Tubeke; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Thales in Belgium is seeking a Senior Bid Manager for Tubize to lead bid processes, analyse requirements, and craft compelling responses in coordination with stakeholders across the business. You will drive pricing, risk assessment, and project baselining while ensuring a smooth transition to the project team.

The role requires strong bid management expertise in a high-tech environment, cross-functional leadership, and a customer-focused approach, with fluency in French, Dutch and English.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in bid management in a high-tech and complex environment.
• Transverse leadership, highly organised and quick learner.
• Customer-driven and quality oriented.
• Financial literacy and business acumen.

Responsabilités

• Lead the bid, following the internal process.
• Analyse the bid and prepare the Bid Plan.
• Provide the best winning response to customer requirements.
• Contribute to negotiations with customers, main partners and suppliers.
• Build, challenge and validate bid contents based on stakeholders’ inputs.
• Assess risks and opportunities and define mitigation approaches.
• Be accountable for bid pricing and costs to secure the deal.
• Define the initial project baseline, milestones and consolidate costs.
• Manage a network of partners and maintain customer request database.
• Ensure successful transition to the project team and launch.

Connaissances

Bid management

Leadership

Financial literacy

Stakeholder management

Multilingual

Formation

Civil/Industrial engineering

MBA or equivalent

Description du poste

Senior Bid Manager – Tubize Site

Location: Tubize, Belgium

Thales in Belgium is part of an internationally leading technology group in the defence, security, aerospace, and digital identity & security markets. The group employs more than 1,000 people across nine sites in Belgium and is recognised for its expertise in RF products, C4ISR, cryptography, aeronautical intercom systems, and more.

Your mission

• Lead the bid, following the internal process.
• Analyse the bid, prepare the Bid Plan and implement it.
• Provide the best winning response to the customer requirements, consistent with the business segment strategy.
• Contribute to negotiations with customers, main partners and suppliers.
• Build, challenge and validate bid contents based on stakeholders’ inputs and commitments.
• Assess risks and opportunities of the future project and define mitigation or accounting approaches.
• Be accountable for bid pricing and costs to secure the deal.
• Define the initial project baseline, major milestones, consolidate costs and other financial parameters, and validate the full project baseline.
• Manage a network of partners, contribute to market intelligence and maintain customer request database.
• Ensure successful transition to the project team: prepare, organise and validate the project launch.

We are looking forward to you

• Strong experience in bid management in a high‑tech and complex environment.
• Transverse leadership, highly organised and quick learner.
• Customer‑driven and quality oriented.
• Financial literacy, business acumen.
• Experience in public markets is a plus.
• Experience within international groups is a plus.
• Knowledge of one or several target markets of the company is a strong asset.
• Educational background: Civil or industrial engineering, Business School Master Degree, MBA or equivalent by experience.
• Languages: French, Dutch and English (professional use required for the 3 languages).
• Stress‑resistant, autonomous, with a sense of initiative.
• Ability to manage multiple resources and meet deadlines.
• Versatility and flexibility.
• Interdisciplinary, creative, end‑to‑end commitment, focused and persistent.
• Team player, strong listening and communication skills.