Manager jobs in United Kingdom

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Purpose of the Job

The ISR (Integrated Service Readiness) have mission to design and deliver a set of technics and methods that will ensure a maximum availability of the railway asset (Rolling Stock & infrastructure) with a minimum maintenance cost.

As an ISR Bid manager, you will:

• Manage bids by integrating and quoting activities on system & Infra or Rolling stock.
• Support other Alstom entities (Rolling stock, Sig & Comm) to obtain a consistent ISR quotation.
• Be the ISR interface with customers (internal and external), suppliers, and tendering team (turkey, RS).
• Build and deliver robust tenders based on reference libraries.
• Develop and improve ISR reference libraries with REX from both tenders & projects for scope and cost optimization.

Main Missions & objectives:

The position holder will be accountable for:

• Applying the tender process (launch meeting, QCD review, financial validation, tender gate reviews).
• The preparation of competitive ISR WP offers by gap costing from Reference Library.
• Providing the Tender team with the ISR proposal tailored according to Customer requirements.
• The analysis of ISR requirements in tenders.
• The identification of the ISR response to be elaborated as a result of this analysis (strategy as PIO, share of work).
• The obtaining of required budgets for ISR tender preparation.
• The production of the ISR Elements and supporting documentation needed during Tenders, particularly:
• Costing and QCD commitments.
• Clause by Clause.
• The coordination of maintenance experts contributing to the preparation of specific tender deliverables.
• Preliminary Maintenance Plans.
• Preliminary Training Plans.
• Manage coordination with other Métier or Function (Train Design / Engineering, RAMS) for the design of the ISR elements during tenders.
• Manage interfaces with the tender team during the whole tender process: BTM (Bid Technical Manager), BM (Bid Manager), and TSM (Tender Sourcing Manager).
• Produce ISR IFQs (Instruction for Quotations).
• Manage coordination of internal stakeholders (Participating Units) contributing to the Tender.
• Manage the interface with Sourcing to retrieve ISR quotations from external suppliers.
• Support Rolling teams on ISR discussions during offer negotiation with Customer.
• Drive the tender process for the ISR part up to the Tender Transfer Meeting (TTM) with a focus on tender validation process on QCD scope.
• Implement and ensure an efficient process and references to prepare ISR offers in a secure, fast, and cost-effective manner.
• Capitalize data to improve QCD on future tenders & contribute to the REX process with tender and project teams for ISR Reference Library update.

Educational requirements:

• Mandatory: “French baccalauréat +5 years” (or equivalent) or Bachelor’s degree from an engineering institute or university with technical dominant.

Technical Knowledge / Experience:

• Work Package Management.
• Mandatory: First experience in ISR in the Railway business with railroad technical knowledge on the reliability and maintainability aspects.
• First experience, or academic knowledge, in the fields of Railway maintenance or Logistics Support in an industrial domain.
• Desirable: Experience in Railway maintenance execution would be a plus.

Behavioural and Technical Skills / Competencies / Languages:

• English Fluent – Mandatory (second foreign language would be a plus).
• Capability to run technical meetings in English.
• Strong team player.
• Leadership, solid decision making, and critical thinking.
• Good communication and writing skills.
• Self-motivated.
• Resilience and assertiveness.
• Synthesis and reporting skills.

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note:

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.