Bid & Project Manager

Thales; Belfast; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Thales as a Bid and Project Manager in Belfast, where you'll coordinate resources across functionalities in the defense sector. This role entails working closely with stakeholders to develop competitive bids, lead project management tasks, and ensure optimal supply chain architecture. With a focus on flexible work arrangements and a commitment to career development, Thales offers an exciting opportunity within a leading global security company.

Benefits

Performance Related Bonus

Pension Scheme

28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Life Cover

Employee Assistance Program

Discount shopping schemes

Gym membership discounts

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Bid and Project Management.
• Experience in procurement within defense or similar business.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate resources to optimize contributions from internal Thales sites.
• Develop an acquisition strategy for projects and bids.
• Lead activities in the intra-group supply chain to identify innovation opportunities.

Skills

Supply chain architecture development

Commercially astute

Needs Analysis

Negotiation skills

Risk Management

Job description

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Location: Belfast, United Kingdom

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Bid and Project Manager

Based in Belfast

Are you interested in an opportunity to work in an exciting, dynamic and fast moving environment and be part of a multi-functional team, meeting demanding customer requirements and deadlines? Would you like to work for a world-renowned company that researches, develops, and supplies technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better and keep us safer?

What the role has to offer:

• Great opportunity to gain experience and develop a career in Bid and Project Management
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, exciting and dynamic environment
• Variety of work within high-tech military and civil projects and get visibility across our world-leading systems and products

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• Performance Related Bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
• Pension Scheme
• 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
• Life Cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts

Our opportunity

Thales Integrated Airspace-protection Systems (IAS) who provide Air Defence Systems (ADS) and Surface attack Systems (SAS) for UK and Export Customers have fantastic opportunities for a Bid and Project Manager to join the team.

You will be responsible for coordinating the resources across all functions in order to optimize the contribution from other Thales internal sites (i.e., those other than IAS UK) to produce competitive campaigns, bids, and products, and delivering profitable projects. You will represent IAS UK in discussions for the supply of products and services provided by other internal Thales sites, in support of potential sales and bids opportunities.

You will work closely with internal stakeholders to ensure an acquisition strategy for a campaign, bid, or product or project is aligned to the needs of the business in the short, medium, and long term durations and work closely with the bid and product development teams to ascertain the work package needs, competitiveness objectives, and target costs. Develop a supply chain architecture; clarify and confirm with the internal supply sites, under these mandates, to obtain a complete and competitive supply chain architecture (including sub-tier supply), which delivers the full requirement of the bid/product.

Some of the key responsibilities:

• Be seen as the architect for intra-group suppliers for the assigned campaign, bid or project
• As a result, create, agree, maintain all governance requirements and Acquisition Strategy and Plan with the bid/project team
• Work with multiple stakeholders to design the intra-group supply architecture to meet needs of the bid or product
• Assuring coherence of the prime and intra-group subcontract programme, technical, commercial, and financial aspects, to align where necessary and/or inform of any variances material to bid risk management, decision making, and contract acceptance
• Generate/review RFQs for intra-group suppliers, ensuring bid and program requirements are accurately captured
• Lead the activities in the intra-group supply chain to identify supply market innovation opportunities, involving suppliers in upstream design and optimizing risk-sharing
• Identify and mitigate risks and maximize opportunities in the role of intra-group supply chain Risk Manager for the bid.

About you

You will have proven experience in Bid and Project Management, along with experience in procurement and a successful track record in a similar role, ideally within defence or similar business, with the following:

• Supply chain architecture development and implementation
• Commercially astute with advanced commercial skills and experience including differing contracting models
• Broad skills focused on: Needs Analysis, Design to Cost, Make-Team-Buy, Technical Interface Management, Acquisition Strategy definition, Supplier Management (including intra-group if possible), Risk and Opportunity Management, Subcontract Management, Relationship Management
• Leadership, presentation, and communication skills
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to optimize cross-functional and cross-organizational working, engage key stakeholders, and work effectively with intra-group suppliers
• Negotiation skills in a complex systems environment
• Able to analyze complex and sometimes incomplete information to create clear short, medium, and long-term solutions addressing Thales requirements

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance, which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details, refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales, we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries, our mobility policy enables employees to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching into new fields. We believe embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neurodiverse applicants or those with disabilities or long-term conditions can perform their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment or for questions about the process, contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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