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Bids & Proposals Manager

ENGINEERINGUK

Essex

Hybrid

GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Full time

24 days ago

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Bids and Proposals Manager to join a forward-thinking company in the Marine sector. In this dynamic role, you will oversee the creation of costed sales proposals, ensuring timely delivery and high standards. Your strong commercial acumen and project management skills will be crucial as you manage multiple bids while collaborating with diverse teams. This innovative firm promotes an inclusive culture and invests in your continuous development, offering a competitive salary and remarkable benefits. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about engineering, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Employee Support Assistance
Employee Discounts
Continuous Learning Opportunities

Qualifications

  • Strong commercial skills with project management experience required.
  • Ability to manage complex bids and work under pressure.

Responsibilities

  • Assist Sales team with Bid/No Bid reviews and manage proposal generation.
  • Prepare costed proposals and ensure compliance with customer needs.

Skills

Commercial Acumen
Project Management
Negotiating Skills
Conflict Resolution
Ability to Manage Multiple Bids
Customer Interaction
Working to Tight Deadlines

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Electronic Engineering
Extensive Experience in Marine Industry

Tools

Microsoft Office 365
CRM Systems

Job description

Bids and Proposals Manager

Full time

Heybridge / Hybrid or Bristol

Why Rolls-Royce?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Bids and Proposals Manager to join our team at Rolls-Royce Power Systems - Marine sector.

In this role, you will have primary responsibility for the creation of costed sales proposals for submission through the company's gate process and ensuring on-time delivery to the customer. This is a highly networked role that requires you to manage multiple projects simultaneously, delivering to high standards under pressure and to challenging deadlines. You will need to have good commercial and project management skills, and an ability to manage without authority.

Our product portfolio includes mtu-brand high-speed engines and propulsion systems for ships, power generation, heavy land, rail and defence vehicles, and for the oil and gas industry, as well as diesel and gas systems and battery containers for mission critical, standby and continuous power, combined generation of heat and power, and microgrids.

Work with us and we'll welcome you into an inclusive culture, one that invests in your continuous learning and development, and gives you access to a wide breadth and depth of experience.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and remarkable benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance, and employee discounts.

Join Rolls-Royce Power Systems and become part of a busy, world-class engineering Marine industry environment.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum, we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing:

  • Assist the Sales team in the initial Bid / No Bid review of all incoming enquiries.
  • Load new opportunities into the CRM system and co-manage the updating and maintenance of the opportunity pipeline.
  • Generation of compliance matrices derived from the customer's initial enquiry by managing without authority virtual teams.
  • Prepare and review costed proposals including cost sheets, commercial and technical proposal documents against compliance matrices ensuring the customer's needs are understood and exceeded.
  • Ensure all proposals are gated through the company's gate procedures.
  • Lead in the continued development of sales resources such as pre-gated proposal templates to ensure timely processing of bids through the business.
  • Move out other duties in the Sales & Marketing department as directed.

Who we are looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These values form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
  • Good commercial and business acumen coupled with practical negotiating skills and conflict resolution.
  • Project Management experience.
  • Ability to manage multiple, complex bids concurrently.
  • Demonstrable experience in interfacing with customers, suppliers and partners.
  • Ideally, a bachelor's degree in electrical or electronic engineering discipline or extensive experience in the Marine industry.
  • Broad knowledge of the Marine market preferred.
  • Ability to work to tight and challenging deadlines.
  • Proficient user of Microsoft Office 365 software.
  • Understanding of our mtu NautIQ Portfolio of products - advantageous.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse team and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

To work in this role, you will need to be able to get a Security Check (SC) clearance and be a sole UK National.

Job Category

Sales

Posting Date

24 Mar 2025; 00:03

Posting End Date

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