Bid Manager

10 hours ago

Melbourne, Australia Thales Full time

We’re inventing the future, right here, right now, at Thales. We design the critical security solutions of tomorrow by combining the curiosity to explore, the intelligence to question and the vision to create. Together we solve complicated problems by combining our experience in the market with our leading research and development capabilities.

**Why work for Thales Australia?**
- Our Protected Vehicle Business is delivering enhanced capability to life saving Protected Vehicle Platforms
- The Protected Vehicle Business is preparing 60 Bushmasters that are being delivered to the Ukraine
- Competitive salary package with includes a bonus and significant contribution to Private Health Insurance (GU Health)
- The Team values its employees to work autonomously and manage work between their Home, the Office (WTC in Melbourne) and our production facility in Bendigo
- The opportunities are exciting and long-term as we build the team of the future

**About the Position**

We are seeking a Bid Manager for our Vehicle & Tactical Systems (VTS) portfolio with a focus on the Protected Vehicle business.

Reporting to the Director Bids VTS the Bid Manager will lead a specialist team to deliver considered and compelling solutions addressing customer challenges within a governance framework.

Your day-to-day job requires professional bid management capabilities to be applied including:
Bringing structure, clarity and governance to the process and ensuring discipline relating to bid management activities.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Leading nationally and internationally dispersed Bid Teams.
- Manage the preparation of pre-qualification and tender response submissions to customers worldwide with the objective of securing an invitation to bid or winning the contract itself.
- Manage the creation of the bid deliverables and ensuring review and governance, leading to the submission of a high-quality proposal.
- Work effectively with the Capture Leader to generate win themes that address customer problems and needs with defined benefits of the Thales offering.
- Ensure that cost estimates within the target budgets are provided with support from Systems Engineering / Product Management / Project Management and that the costs are effectively reviewed to ensure competitive and winning pricing.
- Continually presentation of key bid milestone review to senior stakeholders based in France in the evening due to time difference.

**How About You?**
- 3 - 7 years of Bid/Project Management experience in Defence Industry or Defence.
- Experience in a complex, multidisciplinary, multisite and multinational organisation.
- Can demonstrate the ability to construct solutions that meet the customer need, both commercially and technically.
- Internal and external stakeholder management experience on various levels.

**Good to Know**

International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) are applicable and as such, your nationality may be a factor in determining your suitability for this role.

Prior to offer you’ll complete a pre-employment police and medical check. Thales also complies with current public health orders in place and as such you may be requested to provide your COVID-19 vaccination record.

Wellbeing matters at Thales, and where possible we encourage flexible working.

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