Aerospace Bid & PMO Planner (Hybrid)

Aalto; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Dental and optical cash back

Personal pension plan

Income protection

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

Perkbox discounts

25 days holiday

Job summary

AALTO in Farnborough is seeking a proactive PMO professional to coordinate end-to-end bid activity and support governance, cost reporting, and risk management across the programme portfolio. You will liaise with Commercial, Finance, Engineering and Legal teams to ensure submission readiness and accurate tracking.

The role involves maintenance of plans, schedules, and dashboards, as well as preparing integrated reports for governance reviews.

Qualifications

• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent experience in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Programme Management or a related discipline.
• Extensive aerospace, aviation or defence, preferably in PMO, programme controls, project controls, scheduling or project coordination.
• Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to manage priorities, present data clearly and follow up across cross-functional teams.
• High attention to detail, problem-solving capability and ability to maintain accurate records under pressure.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint.
• Additional experience supporting customer bids, proposals, governance reviews, project cost accounting or programme risk management.
• Experience using PMO, planning, reporting or ERP tools, such as Power BI, SharePoint, Planisware, Planview, Microsoft Project or equivalent systems.
• Project, programme, risk or PMO qualification, such as APM, PRINCE2, MSP, PMI or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end bid activity in line with the Lead-to-Order process, including inputs from Commercial, Contracts, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Legal and Compliance teams.
• Maintain bid plans, schedules, compliance matrices, action trackers and submission readiness reviews.
• Support proposal, presentation and governance document preparation.
• Track bid actions, deadlines, assumptions, dependencies, approvals and decisions.
• Support governance reviews, proposal approvals and accepted-bid handover into Programme delivery planning.
• Act as the PMO interface with Finance for cost accounting, budgets, forecasts and financial reporting.
• Track actuals, commitments, variances, Estimate at Completion updates and cost dashboards.
• Support bid risk and opportunity management, including identification, assessment, owners, mitigation actions, exposure values, escalation and reporting.
• Prepare programme review packs, status reports, dashboards and governance records.

Skills

PMO

Bid management

Excel

PowerPoint

MS Office

Communication

Analytics

Education

Degree/HNC/HND

Tools

Power BI

SharePoint

Planisware

Planview

Microsoft Project

Job description

AALTO in Farnborough is seeking a proactive PMO professional to coordinate end-to-end bid activity and support governance, cost reporting, and risk management across the programme portfolio. You will liaise with Commercial, Finance, Engineering and Legal teams to ensure submission readiness and accurate tracking.

The role involves maintenance of plans, schedules, and dashboards, as well as preparing integrated reports for governance reviews.