Capture Manager

Navantia UK is a new force in British industry, supporting the UK’s defence, energy and maritime ambitions. We’re doing this by creating state-of-the-art sovereign defence capabilities, investing in the UK to modernise industrial facilities, and bolstering the nation's energy security. Established in 2022, Navantia UK is a subsidiary of Navantia SA, a Spanish state-owned company with over 300 years of naval shipbuilding history.

In January 2025, Navantia UK completed the acquisition of Harland & Wolff and its four historic facilities in Belfast, Appledore, Methil, and Arnish. By combining Harland & Wolff’s proud heritage and facilities with Navantia’s global expertise, Navantia UK is well-positioned to strengthen Britain’s defence, maritime and energy industrial capabilities, supporting jobs and economic growth across the UK.

To lead the preparation, execution and winning of competitive proposals fornew strategic and high value contracts for Navantia UK including CAT A UK MOD Programmes (£400M+). This role sits at theintersectionofproject execution andbids, requiring the application of professional project management, commercial awareness and cross-functional and organisation leadership.

The successful candidate is ahands-on, structured professional who can balance strategic thinking (winning bids) with operational execution (delivering projects).

The Role

• Provision of programme leadership across functions to drive successful bid delivery for major Navantia UK opportunities.
• Lead and continuously improve effective project scope, objectives, governance, deliverables, and performance.
• Plan, execute, monitor and enhance projects using established methodologies and tools(e.g. PID, PMO, Agile, SAP experience-SAFRAN).
• Control project schedules, budgets, and resources effectively coordinating across projects and business units.
• Work jointly with engineeringinthe product development, costs, risks,assumptions and dependencies
• Influence and coordinate internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure successful delivery.
• Track progress and reportperformanceto senior management and clients, effectively escalating and resolving issues.
• Identify andmitigateproject risks and issues proactively whilst actively exploiting opportunity.
• Provide project management rigour to deliver competitive future bids whilst meeting wider company obligations and security requirements.

Bid Lifecycle Management

• Work with Bid Managers and wider functions to lead theend-to-endbidprocess, from qualification through submission to successfully secure new contracts.
• Support business development objectives and lead response to Market Engagement/RFI/RFP/RFQ documents whilst defining and improving thewin strategy andbidplan.
• Work closely with sales, technical, finance, legal, and operations teams to develop compelling and compliant proposals.
• Manage timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensureon-time, high-quality submissions.
• Lead, reviewand improve bid content,including technical, commercial, and project delivery sections.
• Ensure effective deliver and drive deliverables and requirements, assign project timelines and lead gateway reviews according tobid/ project requirements
• Drive effective risk and opportunity management within bids and propose mitigation strategies.
• Support pricing strategies and cost estimationincollaboration with finance teams.
• Manage equivalent activities for product development project life cycles as needed

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a key interface between clients,business development, and internal teams.
• Management and communication of all key documentation and information
• Facilitate workshops,bidand performance reviews, and project meetings.
• Maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to support bothbidsuccess…