Bid Manager

Stirling Dynamics

Bid Manager managing and leading bids in aerospace, marine, and defence sectors. Ensuring compliance with quality management in a fast-moving company with a global customer base.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeBristol • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £42,000 - £60,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage bids across Business Units in accordance with the company procedures.
Participation in the early Bid Phase, this could involve customer liaison and supporting initial requirement / scope capture and definition.
Tracking, monitoring progress, management and delivering allocated bids and projects in terms of: Time, Cost and Quality.
Leading engineering and operational bid teams as required in creating compelling and competitive technical, commercial and financial proposals in support of offers to customers.
Management of risk in accordance with company procedures to ensure all technical, commercial and financial risks are considered and included in bids.
Preparation of al Bid Process Documentation, including: Bid Initiation; Bid Approval and Contract Acceptance.
Ensure a seamless transition from the Bid to the Project Delivery Teams, assisting with Project Start-up and Initiation Documentation and attending Project Kick Off meetings.
With SME support, to generate robust costings (WBS, Hours, Purchased Items), and facilitating stakeholder cost reviews in support of Bid Approval.
Continuous improvement: development of standardised bid libraries: proposal content; standardised costs & pricing; management of bid lessons learned.
Stakeholder communication and management (both internal and external to customers and suppliers).
Early and clear reporting, raising and escalation of bid issues, risks, and potential problems.
Support the implementation of Best Practice bid management across the company and identify opportunities for improving processes and efficiency.
Support the project management team in process streamlining and improvement.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Degree qualified in an engineering, science, technology, mathematics or related discipline
Recognised Project Management training and qualification - Desirable
Ability to lead teams and drive deliverables in challenging technical environments
Able to work with a wide experience level from junior engineers to well-regarded technical consultants
Financially astute, able to define and manage bid budgets
Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
Confident in prioritisation and managing concurrent workstreams
Ability to manage own workload and work to deadlines
Be an effective communicator, both written and verbal
A proactive and assertive nature with the motivation to succeed
Proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
General experience within the aerospace, marine and defence engineering environment
Experience of bid and project management in engineering technical services provision and / or full life cycle development programmes
Experience of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, such as Epicor - Desirable

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive package
Regular events held throughout the year for social mixing

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Hard Skills & Tools

bid managementproject managementcostingscope capturerisk managementproposal developmentWBSfinancial analysisprocess improvementengineering

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillsattention to detailprioritizationtime managementproactive natureassertivenessteam collaborationstakeholder management

Certifications

Project Management qualification