Bid Programme Director - ICRWT

Babcock International; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence contractor is seeking a Bid Programme Director to guide a complex bid for rotary wing training. The role offers flexibility in location, requires extensive experience in business winning methodologies, and demands exceptional project management skills. Key benefits include generous holidays, pension schemes, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Paid volunteering day

Professional fees payment

Qualifications

• Proven track record in applying recognised business winning methodologies across the full bid lifecycle.
• Strong project management skills to lead multi-functional teams in complex environments.
• Demonstrates strong financial and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage Babcock’s bidding process using established best practices.
• Integrate Babcock’s bid activities with the consortium Prime’s programme.
• Collaborate across functions to ensure high-quality business winning outputs.

Skills

Business Winning Expertise

Leadership & Project Management

Commercial Acumen

Flexibility & Collaboration

Education

Educated to degree level

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Bid Programme Director

Location: UK, Flexible + Regular EU travel

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: 12 months Fixed Term Contract

Role ID: SF66215

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Bid Programme Director working as part of our Land Future Business Team. In this role, you’ll drive the quality application of the end-to-end Business Winning Methodology as part of Babcock’s contribution to the consortium bidding for the Integrated Combat Rotary Wing Training (ICRWT) opportunity.

The Bid Programme Director will play a pivotal leadership role in steering this large and complex bid, ensuring the seamless integration and high quality of all business winning outputs to maximise the probability of success.

The role

As a Bid Programme Director, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role will directly shape the success of a strategically vital defence bid, helping to deliver cutting-edge rotary wing training capabilities to international partners.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead the ICRWT bid as Bid Lead, working in close partnership with the Opportunity Lead and subject matter experts across the business to design and deliver a robust, strategically aligned bid programme. From pre-qualification through to post-submission, you’ll ensure the bid is effectively resourced and executed to maximise our chances of success.

• Lead and manage Babcock’s bidding process using established best practices—planning timelines, setting key milestones, coordinating critical meetings, and ensuring all deliverables are met through effective stakeholder engagement and accountability.
• Integrate Babcock’s bid activities with the consortium Prime’s programme, fostering cultural and procedural alignment to enhance collective win probability (PWin).
• Collaborate across functions to bring together diverse expertise, ensuring high-quality business winning outputs with a clear ‘golden thread’ linking value proposition, solution, pricing, and deal structure.
• Act as the primary escalation point for the bid team on matters related to the Business Winning Methodology and programme delivery, providing guidance and resolution.
• Establish and oversee the bid management organisation, including matrix management, to ensure efficient programme delivery and resource coordination.
• Drive strategic bid development, including win strategies, competitive and capability assessments, and differentiated value propositions that strengthen the consortium’s overall offering.

This role is full time 40 hours per week across a 12-month fixed term contract. We are flexible on location however will require frequent UK and EU travel to internal and external sites.

Essential experience of the Bid Programme Director

• Business Winning Expertise: Proven track record in applying recognised business winning methodologies across the full bid lifecycle, with the ability to shape strategy during early capture phases. Significant experience leading major bid programmes (CAT B or above), ideally within the defence sector and in a consortium environment.
• Leadership & Project Management: Strong project management skills with the ability to lead, motivate, and coordinate large, multi-functional teams in complex, high-pressure environments.
• Commercial Acumen: Demonstrates strong financial and commercial awareness, with a clear understanding of how to align value propositions with customer needs and competitive positioning.
• Flexibility & Collaboration: Comfortable working internationally and across partner locations, with a collaborative mindset and the ability to integrate diverse inputs into cohesive bid outputs.

Qualifications for the Bid Programme Director

• Educated to degree level

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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