Bid Manager

Bid Manager

The Role
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Bid Manager to join our client’s dynamic team. Reporting to the Director of Bid Management & Support, you’ll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, compelling proposals that help secure and retain work across a diverse client base. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys leading complex bids from qualification through to contract award.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end bid process, ensuring compliance with the Business Win procedures and Shipley best practices.
• Develop bid strategies, manage resources, and oversee proposal preparation to deliver winning submissions on time.
• Assemble and guide multi-disciplinary bid teams, collaborating with stakeholders across sales, delivery, finance, legal, and external partners.
• Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring exceptional quality and timely progress through reviews and approvals.
• Implement and improve bid governance and processes, sharing best practices across the business.

Experience / skills / qualifications

• Proven track record in bid and proposal management, in a highly regulated environment, ideally within Defence or Aerospace.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in complex bid environments.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and commercial acumen.
• Excellent communication skills—both written and verbal—with the ability to craft persuasive proposals.
• Expert user of MS Office and exceptional organisational skills.

Overview
Position – Bid Manager – Permanent
Location – Bournemouth
Salary - £50k - £60k

Keywords: Bid, Bid Management, proposals, stakeholder management, Aviation, Defence, Aerospace, Bid Governance, Bid Strategies.

Only apply for this role if you currently hold the specific Government Security Clearance or are eligible for Government Security Clearance.

Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, if not already security cleared to a minimum SC level.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

This is a Permanent Role