Strategic Project & Bid Lead for Contract Manufacturing

Careers at Truvant USA; Haslet (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Truvant is seeking a Project & Bid Manager to lead development, quotation, approval, and implementation of new contract manufacturing and packaging opportunities in the United States, while supporting growth with existing customers and collaboration across North America and Europe.

This role converts customer requirements into practical, compliant, and profitable operating solutions by integrating commercial, technical, operational, financial, and project-management inputs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in engineering, operations, supply chain, business, project management, or related field preferred.
• At least 5 years experience in contract manufacturing and/or contract packaging preferred.
• At least 5 years experience in CPG/FMCG, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, medical device, or another relevant regulated manufacturing or packaging environment preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of RFQ/RFP, quotation, solution-costing, or business-case development processes.
• Hands-on translating customer requirements into process, labor, layout, equipment/tooling, capacity, investment, risk, cost, and profitability assumptions.
• Proven end-to-end delivery of new products, customers, lines, technologies, facilities, or manufacturing-transfer/startup programs.
• Strong project-management experience, including budgets, schedules, cross-functional teams, risk mitigation, governance, and escalation.
• Customer-facing experience developing solutions, presenting recommendations, and supporting business wins, growth, retention, or expansion.

Responsibilities

• Own the quotation process for new-business opportunities in the United States, ensuring inputs are complete, consistent, traceable, and ready for commercial and P&L review.
• Develop P&L-ready proposals supported by labor, space, resource, material, startup, investment, risk, pricing, margin, and payback assumptions.
• Translate customer requirements into executable process flows, operating concepts, layouts, capacity models, equipment and tooling scopes, technical requirements, and CAPEX estimates.
• Lead new-business projects involving new customers, items, machines, technologies, lines, operating models, or sites from approval through stable launch.
• Develop and manage project charters, scope, deliverables, budgets, milestones, critical paths, resource plans, governance cadence, implementation plans, risk logs, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate procurement, installation, commissioning, qualification or validation, trials, training, readiness reviews, production ramp-up, and controlled handoff to Operations.
• Lead or support customer discovery, technical reviews, solution workshops, plant tours, proposal presentations, and startup governance meetings.
• Partner with Sales/BD, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Quality, R&D/NPD, Planning, Engineering, IT, Supply Chain, customers, and suppliers.
• Ensure solutions and project execution meet applicable company, customer, quality, food-safety, food-defense, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide structured status reporting covering progress, costs, risks, decisions, actions, escalations, and outlook.
• Promote standardized RFQ, costing, project-governance, reporting, and startup practices across the region.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

RFQ/RFP ownership

Cost modeling

Pricing recommendations

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Customer discovery

Executive communication

Process flow design

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in engineering/ops/supply chain/PM

Job description

Truvant is seeking a Project & Bid Manager to lead development, quotation, approval, and implementation of new contract manufacturing and packaging opportunities in the United States, while supporting growth with existing customers and collaboration across North America and Europe.

This role converts customer requirements into practical, compliant, and profitable operating solutions by integrating commercial, technical, operational, financial, and project-management inputs.