Junior Bid Manager

Job Title: Junior Bid Manager

Location: Surrey – Guildford – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £32,500 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Establish bidding environment, including Project Share and support activities relating to simple cost modelling
• Creation and ownership of Bid Schedule / Bid Book Plan and management of bid team activities and actions in line with the bid plan
• Manage the bid development process, tracking progress, setting up reviews, providing background material to reviewers
• Ensure that effective governance (i.e. Assurance Framework and other review mechanisms) and mandated reporting policies are adhered to.
• Derive bid budget; monitor costs, timescales and resources used, and act where these deviate from agreed budget or agreed task contingency
• Schedule/organise key bid reviews to ensure quality and compliance, together with consistency across the bid and associated materials
• Close down of the “project” at the end of a bid, including personal performance reviews, project lessons learned and harvesting of reusable collateral (i.e. improved propositions, updated processes, reusable modules)
• Bid artefacts (with supervision) as required for bid activities undertaken (including both customer deliverables and internal assurance artefacts)

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Requires a basic understanding and knowledge of the area in which the role operates, with a comparable level experience of working in Bid Management or a complimentary area of specialism
• Has some awareness of business winning environment with further willingness to learn

Desirable:

• Awareness of latest bid best practice techniques
• Experience of understanding business requirements and business winning tools

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Digital Intelligence Team:

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,000 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

The Flexible Working Statement:

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.

All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 26th February 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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