Technical Bid Manager

Tata Electronics; Kolar; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Electronics Private Limited is assembling a high-caliber bid management team to drive end-to-end technical proposals. The role focuses on RFQ receipt through submission, with rigorous requirements tracing, compliance handling, and transparent governance across engineering, operations, sourcing, and finance.

You will craft solution narratives, manage reviews, and produce auditable bid artifacts. Applicants should bring expertise in RFQ decomposition, gated reviews, and cost/schedule

Qualifications

• Expertise in RFQ decomposition, bid governance, requirements traceability, compliance management, and proposal development.
• Knowledge of technical bid management methodologies, gated review processes, and proposal lifecycle management.
• Proficiency in developing compliance matrices, risk registers, action trackers, requirements traceability registers, and governance documentation.
• Experience creating technical proposals, executive presentations, customer-facing solution narratives, and management approval packages.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to evaluate cost, schedule, risk, contract deliverables, and business impacts.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical bid governance, ensuring bid readiness from RFQ receipt through final submission and management approval.
• Lead RFQ decomposition, requirements analysis, compliance matrix development, and requirements traceability to ensure customer requirements are fully captured and addressed.
• Establish proposal architecture, bid strategy, solution storytelling, and executive-level presentations to communicate compelling customer solutions.
• Drive go/no-go decisions, pricing gate reviews, approval milestones, and bid governance reviews, ensuring risks, assumptions, and deviations are visible to decision-makers.
• Manage proposal review cycles, including Red Team and Gold Team reviews, and ensure timely closure of all review actions.
• Coordinate and prioritize resources across multiple concurrent bid opportunities while maintaining bid quality and submission timelines.
• Review customer RFQs, drawings, specifications, BOMs, standards, and technical data packages to identify gaps, risks, assumptions, and clarification needs.
• Develop structured customer clarification logs and convert incomplete requirements into documented assumptions, dependencies, closure plans, and executable solutions.
• Define solution approaches, basis of estimate, implementation strategies, assumptions, exclusions, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Prepare auditable technical evidence, compliance documentation, proposal narratives, management approval packages, and supporting bid artifacts.
• Develop resource plans, cycle-time estimates, equipment and tooling requirements, NRE, capital expenditure estimates, implementation schedules, and milestone plans.

Skills

RFQ decomposition

Bid governance

Requirements traceability

Compliance management

Proposal development

Technical bid management

Governance documentation

Cost & scheduling assessment

Project leadership

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, ECE, Industrial or related engineering

PMP and/or MBA (preferred)

Tools

ERP

PLM

BOM management systems

Document management repositories

Controlled content environments

Job description

About the Business:

Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL) is a greenfield venture of the Tata Group with expertise in manufacturing precision components.

Tata Electronics (a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd.) is building India’s first AI-enabled state-of-the-art Semiconductor Foundry. This facility will produce chips for applications such as power management IC, display drivers, microcontrollers (MCU) and high-performance computing logic, addressing the growing demand in markets such as automotive, computing and data storage, wireless communications and artificial intelligence.

Tata Electronics is a subsidiary of the Tata group. The Tata Group operates in more than 100 countries across six continents, with the mission 'To improve the quality of life of the communities we serve globally, through long term stakeholder value creation based on leadership with Trust.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end technical bid governance, ensuring bid readiness from RFQ receipt through final submission and management approval.
• Lead RFQ decomposition, requirements analysis, compliance matrix development, and requirements traceability to ensure customer requirements are fully captured and addressed.
• Establish proposal architecture, bid strategy, solution storytelling, and executive-level presentations to communicate compelling customer solutions.
• Drive go/no-go decisions, pricing gate reviews, approval milestones, and bid governance reviews, ensuring risks, assumptions, and deviations are visible to decision-makers.
• Manage proposal review cycles, including Red Team and Gold Team reviews, and ensure timely closure of all review actions.
• Coordinate and prioritize resources across multiple concurrent bid opportunities while maintaining bid quality and submission timelines.
• Review customer RFQs, drawings, specifications, BOMs, standards, and technical data packages to identify gaps, risks, assumptions, and clarification needs.
• Develop structured customer clarification logs and convert incomplete requirements into documented assumptions, dependencies, closure plans, and executable solutions.
• Define solution approaches, basis of estimate, implementation strategies, assumptions, exclusions, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Prepare auditable technical evidence, compliance documentation, proposal narratives, management approval packages, and supporting bid artifacts.
• Develop resource plans, cycle-time estimates, equipment and tooling requirements, NRE, capital expenditure estimates, implementation schedules, and milestone plans.

Qualifications:

• B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, ECE, Industrial or a related engineering discipline. PMP and/or MBA is preferred.

Desired Experience Level:

• Expertise in RFQ decomposition, bid governance, requirements traceability, compliance management, and proposal development.
• Strong knowledge of technical bid management methodologies, gated review processes, and proposal lifecycle management.
• Proficiency in developing compliance matrices, risk registers, action trackers, requirements traceability registers, and governance documentation.
• Experience creating technical proposals, executive presentations, customer-facing solution narratives, and management approval packages.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to evaluate cost, schedule, risk, contract deliverables, and business impacts.
• Knowledge of manufacturing industrialization, NPI processes, EMS operations, process engineering, quality systems, test strategies, and supply chain considerations.
• Ability to develop resource loading models, cycle-time calculations, capacity assessments, equipment requirements, tooling estimates, implementation schedules, and capital investment evaluations.
• Experience with ERP, PLM, document management repositories, BOM management systems, and controlled content environments.
• Understanding of change control, configuration management, estimation methodologies, technical documentation, and proposal costing principles.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities with the ability to make evidence-based technical and commercial recommendations.
• Proven capability to lead multidisciplinary teams and collaborate effectively across engineering, operations, quality, sourcing, finance, and supplier organizations.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent bids, work under fixed deadlines, and maintain high levels of accuracy and attention to detail.