Senior Manager, Major Bids

Senior Manager, Major Bids page is loaded## Senior Manager, Major Bidslocations: Elizabeth St, Victoria, Australiatime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: JR3848**Job Title**Senior Manager, Major Bids**Job Description**An excellent opportunity is available for a**Senior Manager, Major Bids** to join the **Transformation Program** at Australia’s pre-eminent biomedical research institute.**About the Position**The Senior Manager, Major Bids is a strategic role leading the uplift of our major bids process, establishing a structured, coordinated, and high-impact approach to securing complex, high-value funding.This role will be responsible for delivering both support for active major bids and implement long-term improvements to how WEHI manages strategic funding opportunities. The successful candidate will shape and embed a fit-for-purpose major bid process, through consultation with key stakeholders and consideration of the goals of WEHI’s target operating model and trends across the medical research funding landscape. Through overseeing and managing live bids, the Senior Manager will embed new ways of working and build internal capability across stakeholder groups.**Selection Criteria** Knowledge and Skills:* A tertiary qualification in a relevant field, preferably biomedical or health science, with advanced degrees and experience in research and academic settings.* Extensive experience managing complex bids and sponsored research activity including Government and Philanthropic research grants.* Ability to align research proposals with the priorities and strategic goals of funding agencies.* Strong background in strategic research partnerships, with a demonstrated ability to manage high-level relationships with internal and external stakeholders.* Innovative and strategic thinking with the ability to turn broad objectives into actionable, achievable plans.* Demonstrated experience designing or improving processes in a complex organisational environment.Personal Qualities:* Strong project management skills, including the creation and management of detailed timelines, budget development, and leading collaborative research teams, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.* Excellent communication skills (written, visual and verbal) for translating complex scientific ideas into compelling proposals.* Demonstrated ability to foster strong relationships with internal teams, external stakeholders, and senior leadership.* Ability to maintain high degree of integrity and confidentiality.* Expertise in identifying problems, analysing root causes, and developing solutions that are sustainable and scalable.**Terms of Appointment** This position is available for **12 months** in a **full time** capacity. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Up to 17% superannuation and very attractive salary packaging options are available.General enquiries can be directed to recruitment@wehi.edu.au**.**A position description is available .**How to Apply** Please apply by uploading your CV, cover letter and a document addressing the key selection criteria in pdf format.**Application Closing Date:** Sunday 2 November 2025 at 11:59pm**WEHI’s commitment to diversity and inclusion**At WEHI we strive to foster a flexible working environment that encourages individual differences and promotes collaboration and creativity. We recognise that talent does not sit within a single identifiable group in our society and that WEHI’s ability to shape contemporary scientific thinking and deliver leading professional services relies on a diversity of thought within our organisation. Our action to promote gender equality has been recognised with an Athena SWAN Bronze Award from Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) and we offer a range of . Our commitment to celebrating diversity and addressing inequities is further demonstrated through our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, Gender Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and our WE-Pride network for LGBTQIA+ staff and students. We actively encourage applications from, people with a disability, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people and people with diverse genders and sexualities. Should you require support during the recruitment process due to special needs or consideration, please contact the People and Culture team.**WEHI’s commitment to Indigenous employment**where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will be engaged at the scientific frontier, making exciting discoveries and decisions about the future of health in this country, and part of a leading professional services workforce supporting the realisation of these discoveries. We are committed to creating a culturally safe workplace and offering career development and leadership opportunities to First Nations staff and students. We strongly encourage any Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.
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