Bid Manager
// Role Summary
Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of high-quality, compliant bid responses for a Bid Manager role, working across defence, national security, and space sectors.
// Key Responsibilities
- Manage bid activities from qualification through to submission, defining and implementing bid strategies.
- Coordinate cross-functional contributors and ensure governance, assurance, and review processes are followed.
- Drive consistency in proposal content, manage risks, budgets, timescales, and resources.
- Facilitate Shipley-based Colour Reviews and manage stakeholder engagement.
- Analyze customer requirements, support cost modelling, and coach colleagues in bid management best practice.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Bid Manager, you will lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of high-quality, compliant bid responses from qualification through to submission. You will operate as a core member of the opportunity team, defining and implementing bid strategies, developing and managing bid plans and schedules, and coordinating cross-functional contributors.
Your responsibilities will include ensuring governance, assurance, and review processes are followed, driving consistency across all proposal content, and managing risks, budgets, timescales, and resources. You will take ownership of proposal production, editing, and final submission to ensure compelling, customer-focused responses.
The role involves facilitating and leading Shipley-based Colour Reviews, managing stakeholder engagement across account, capture, and delivery teams, and ensuring bid activities remain on track through effective planning, reporting, and governance. You will also analyse customer requirements, support cost modelling activities, coach colleagues in bid management best practice, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Bid strategy implementation
- Bid planning and scheduling
- Governance and assurance management
- Proposal development
- Stakeholder coordination
- Risk management
- Compliance and quality reviews
- Resource and budget management
- Customer response ownership
- Continuous improvement and team coaching
Your Skills and Experiences:
We are looking for candidates with experience in Bid Management or a related business-winning environment, demonstrating the ability to manage bid activities through to successful delivery. A strong understanding of bid management processes, proposal development, and business-winning tools is essential, alongside knowledge of bid best practice and governance requirements.
You should have a proven ability to analyse requirements, solve problems proactively, manage stakeholder relationships, and work effectively within cross-functional teams. Excellent communication, organisation, and planning skills are crucial. An APMP qualification is desirable.
Benefits:
BAE Systems offers a competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, and an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans, and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Why BAE Systems?
Join an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity and merit, and empowers you to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and strive to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. Please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments if you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as your nationality, previous nationalities, and place of birth can affect your eligibility. All applicants must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Many roles require higher levels of National Security Vetting, typically requiring 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK.