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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading multi-disciplinary bid teams and managing complex engineering or defence projects, with a strong focus on stakeholder relationship management and bid lifecycle understanding. Proven ability to produce high-quality bids while ensuring compliance and commercial alignment.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Bid ManagementStakeholder Relationship ManagementLeadership and CoordinationCommercial AwarenessSecurity Clearance (SC)
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Hard Skills
Bid Process ManagementProposal DevelopmentRisk ManagementAnalytical SkillsBid Lifecycle Understanding
Soft Skills
Effective CommunicationResilienceChange Management
Certifications & Qualifications
Security Clearance (SC)
Industry Keywords
Complex EngineeringDefence EnvironmentsCross-Functional AlignmentPQQ ResponsesResource Planning
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary bid teams
- Ensure a structured, well-governed and timely bid process
- Create and control bid schedules, requirements baselines and resource plans
- Build relationships with internal stakeholders, partners, suppliers and customer representatives
- Ensure cross-functional alignment across estimates, compliance, commercial terms and the initial project baseline
- Lead preparation of PQQ responses, proposal development and governance reviews
- Produce high-quality, strategically important and competitive bids for the Underwater Systems domain
- Support transformational programmes and Thales UK's long-term success
Requirements
What you’ll need- Proven experience supporting or leading successful bids and/or projects in complex engineering or defence environments
- Strong leadership and coordination skills, with the ability to work across multi-disciplinary and multi-site teams
- Excellent stakeholder, customer and supplier relationship management capability
- Strong commercial awareness, analytical skills and understanding of bid lifecycles, assumptions and risk management
- Highly effective written and verbal communication skills
- Resilience and ability to manage change
- Security Clearance (SC) required before commencing employment; must undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance if not already held
- Generally, eligibility for full SC requires residence in the UK for the last 5 years; in some circumstances, at least 3 years’ UK residence over the last 5 years may be accepted with additional overseas checks
Benefits
Comp & perks- Performance-related bonus
- Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
- 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
- 24 hours volunteering paid for
- Private healthcare (grade dependent)
- Pension scheme
- 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
- Private medical insurance
- Buying or selling annual leave
- Cycle to work schemes
- Employee discounts
- Paid volunteering day
- Stocks and shares
- Annual bonus
- Employee networks and wellbeing policies