Bid Manager, Business

ARM are delighted to be supporting a really exciting business in Bournemouth with the recruitment of a Bid Manager on a permanent basis.

• Lead the end-to-end bid process, ensuring compliance with Draken?s Business Win procedures and Shipley best practices.
• Develop bid strategies, manage resources, and oversee proposal preparation to deliver winning submissions on time.
• Assemble and guide multi-disciplinary bid teams, collaborating with stakeholders across sales, delivery, finance, legal, and external partners.
• Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring exceptional quality and timely progress through reviews and approvals.
• Implement and improve bid governance and processes, sharing best practices across the business.

• Proven track record in bid and proposal management, ideally within Defence or Aerospace.
• Minimum 5 years? experience in complex bid environments.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and commercial acumen.
• Excellent communication skills-both written and verbal-with the ability to craft persuasive proposals.
• Expert user of MS Office and exceptional organisational skills.

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited (ARM). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today.

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