Bid Manager

JR United Kingdom; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Business Capture Manager to join a dynamic Business Development team. This role focuses on managing the entire bid process, developing winning strategies, and ensuring high-quality submissions. Your engineering knowledge will enhance the team's capabilities, supporting key bids and fostering relationships with customers. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and collaboration, where your contributions will directly impact business growth. If you're ready to take on challenges and drive success in a vital role, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Bid / Capture role.
• Flexible and proactive approach to grow within an expanding team.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full bid process including technical solution development.
• Lead the Cost Estimation & Pricing processes and submit for approval.

Skills

Bid Management

Bid Strategy

Project Management

Commercial Experience

Microsoft Office

Engineering Principles

MoD Bids

Education

Degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

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An exciting opportunity has become available for a Business Capture Manager to join our client's Business Development & Proposals team.

This role will be prioritised as bid management first, followed by capture activity and finally supporting the development of our wider BD opportunities.

This role and expertise will provide additional engineering knowledge to complement the existing team, and to provide depth in our team’s knowledge to support key bids.

Key Tasks:

1. Manage the full bid process including work breakdown structure and technical solution development.
2. Instrumental in capturing new business for the company by creating winning bids.
3. Manage the requirements for the capture of new business opportunities:
4. Develop bid strategies and concepts of operation to support the proposal.
5. Production of the bid proposals & associated plans
6. Manage the relationship with the customer to ensure clear lines of communications are established and that their requirements are fully understood.
7. Lead the Cost Estimation & Pricing processes and submit for approval.
8. Bid review and general bid team management.
9. Ensure that the final bid submissions meet the highest quality standards.
10. Manage liaison with the Design & Engineering team during the bid lifecycle to coordinate inputs to the technical bid solution.
11. Support the sub-contractor and supplier selection process, in conjunction with Quality, Technical & Supply Chain personnel.
12. Liaison with the Supply Chain Manager to identify suppliers/sub-contractors and help produce the associated scopes of work in support of bids.
13. Liaison with the Commercial Manager to produce the commercial aspects of the proposals.
14. Support Marketing and Business Development by managing the preparation and supply of technical information.
15. Compliance with Company Business Operating Procedures.
16. Attend Gate Reviews and other related proposal reviews as required. This will include preparation and presentation of review documentation.
17. Responsible for the handover of complete bid packages to Deployable Infrastructure (DI) team following successful bid awards.
18. Responsible for the provision of accurate bid status & tracking information to maintain the pipeline tool.
19. Maintain communications and liaison with Deployable Infrastructure (DI), HR, Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, Design & Engineering and QHSE departments/functions.

Qualifications Required:

• Degree or equivalent in Mechanical Engineering, with proven experience in a Bid / Capture role.

Skills / Experience Required:

• Flexible and proactive approach to grow within an expanding team.
• Experienced in setting out the bid strategy, plans and proactively managing the bid and team as required.
• Experienced in developing bids and managing the process to bid submission.
• A proven track record for delivering small bids (£500K - £2M) and larger bids (£5M - £50M)
• Commercial and estimating experience.
• Good project management skills to manage key bids to service delivery.
• Experienced in working on MoD bids and understanding of the commercial processes in contracting with the UK MoD
• Good technical understanding or background of engineering principles.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office packages, especially Word and Excel.
• Ability to use Microsoft Project is desirable but not essential.

Overview

Location – Portland

Keywords: Bid Management, MOD Contracts, Bid Strategy, Service Delivery, Engineering Principles, Mechanical Engineering.

Only apply if you currently hold or are eligible for Government Security Clearance.

Due to the nature of work at our client's site, incumbents must meet specific nationality rules; these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants will also need to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already cleared to at least SC level.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to high technology industries. We thank you for your interest. If you don't hear within 7 working days, please consider your application unsuccessful. You may resubmit your CV/details in the future for assessment.