Thales

Bid Finance Manager

Thales

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cheadle • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Part of the Thales Bid Finance Team, delivering cost engineering and turning estimates into prices for Thales UK businesses
  • Explore, support and influence prospects, working with bid team members and Subject Matter Experts
  • Help shape a business winning costed approach
  • Continuously improve the value of the output used in Project and Bid validation and governance
  • Support estimate collation, management and cost to price modelling of business opportunities
  • Use and develop commercial awareness and stakeholder management to deliver high quality proposals
  • Work with capture, bid and projects/programmes teams as they define their approach
  • Generate robust and defendable costed solutions

Requirements

  • Degree in a relevant discipline, or equivalent experience in bids, projects, engineering or finance
  • Experience of finance and performance metrics
  • Business acumen, demonstrated by commercial and financial awareness
  • Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
  • Ability to work in multi-stakeholder environment and create clear and achievable goals
  • Excellent organisation skills, capable of delivering to agreed timescales in a pressurised bidding environment, capable of appropriate attention to detail
  • Security Clearance (SC) required, ideally currently held.
Benefits
  • Performance-related bonus
  • Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
  • 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
  • 24 hours volunteering paid for
  • Private healthcare
  • Pension scheme
  • Life cover
  • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
  • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
  • Gym membership discounts

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
cost engineeringcost to price modellingfinance metricscommercial awareness
Soft skills
stakeholder managementorganisation skillsgoal settingattention to detail
Certifications
Security Clearance (SC)