Bid Centre Manager

Saab; Linköpings kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Saab AB is seeking a driven Bid Centre Manager to lead the daily operations of Saab's Bid Centre and enable successful proposal development across campaigns. You will coordinate resources, align stakeholders, and drive security-compliant bid practices in a complex international setting.

The role focuses on operational excellence, business support to bid teams, and ongoing development of bid methods and tools. English and Swedish fluency is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating bids, proposals or complex campaigns.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to navigate across organizational boundaries with diverse stakeholders.
• Excellent organizational skills and proactive, structured work style.
• Enjoy improving processes and ways of working.
• Doer mindset with ownership from idea to execution.
• Fluent in English and Swedish.
• Curious about technology and AI-based tools and methods.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate resources, priorities and activities across bids and campaigns.
• Support development of bid capabilities, methods and tools.
• Provide guidance to bid teams and contribute to successful proposal delivery.
• Ensure security plans and environments comply with regulations.

Skills

Bid management

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Organizational skills

Process improvement

English & Swedish fluency

Job description

Want to influence the bigger picture? At Saab, you can realize amazing innovations that keep people and societies safe. Together, we can truly make an impact – and your part matters.

Your role

As Bid Centre Manager, you will play a central role in Saab's international Marketing & Sales activities. Working at the heart of major business opportunities, you will lead the daily operations of the Bid Centre and create the conditions for successful proposal development across multiple campaigns and customer opportunities.

The role is focused on coordinating and developing the overall bid capability and supporting bid teams throughout the organization.

You will work closely with Bid Managers, Proposal Managers, campaign teams and stakeholders across Saab, ensuring that resources, methods and tools are used effectively and that our bid teams are equipped to deliver high-quality proposals.

Your responsibility spans four main areas:

• Bid Centre Coordination – Coordinating resources, priorities and activities across ongoing bids and campaigns.
• Operational Excellence – Supporting the continuous development of methods, processes and tools that strengthen our bid capability.
• Business Support – Providing guidance and support to bid teams and contributing to successful proposal delivery across the organization.
• Security – Ensuring security plans, physical and digital environment are compliant with governing regulations.

Your profile

We are looking for a driven and structured professional who thrives in a complex international business environment. You enjoy creating clarity, bringing people together around a common objective and ensuring that activities move forward in an efficient and coordinated way.

To succeed in this role, we see that you:

• Have experience of coordinating projects, bids or other complex business activities.
• Have strong collaborative and communication skills.
• Are comfortable working across organizational boundaries and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Have excellent organizational skills and a structured, proactive way of working.
• Enjoy improving ways of working and creating efficient processes.
• Have a "doer" mindset and take ownership from idea to execution.
• Are fluent in English and Swedish.
• Have curiosity and openness to technological development, with an interest in AI-based tools and methods.

Additionally, the following skills are valued:

• Strong communicative skills with ability to convey complex information clearly.
• Understanding of risk management in complex business environments.
• Aspirational mindset with potential to grow into other roles in sales.
• Overall perspective with responsibility to coordinate bids and ensure all plans are up to date.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What you will be a part of

Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here

Regardless of whether you value cutting edge technology, creativity or an innovative environment, everyone at Saab contributes to keeping people and society safe.