Manufacturing Bid Lead

Part-time Manufacturing Bid Lead

Location: Bolton

Salary: Pro Rata £40,000 - £50,000 depending on experience and hours worked

Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2,500, Paid Overtime, Strong pension,25 days annual leave with the option to accrue 15 additional days flexi leave, enhanced parental leave.

We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, that have an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Bid Lead to work on a part time basis.

Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.

The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.

Typically for this role, you will work 2-3 days a week on-site.

The Manufacturing Bid Lead role:

Due to an increase in workload, an opportunity has arisen for a Manufacturing Bid Lead specifically in our New Business Team to join a dynamic and forward-thinking manufacturing organisation.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Bid lead on behalf of manufacturing, ensure clarity of scope within Bid Directive and content aligns with manufacturing industrial policy.
• Responsible for the generations of manufacturing bids (PowerPoint), ensuring they are competitive, compliant and are in line with all business and commercial criteria. All risks have been assessed effectively, and are financially sound and competitive. Ensuring at all times Manufacturing is providing value-added contributions to the bid directive.
• Develop and maintain a strong and collaborative working relationship with all key stakeholders, providing Manufacturing with forward visibility of future bids and market intelligence.
• Ensuring manufacturing is a key partner in the generation of bid data throughout the Life Cycle of the Project/Product, and adequately prepared to manage and deliver competitive and compliant bid proposals.
• Support the New Business Team in the identification of new business opportunities and the development of approaches to winning the business.
• Actively participates in Functional & Strategic Change activities, supporting best practice & functional excellence.
• Participate fully in developing, maintaining and modifying manufacturing processes and procedures in assigned areas with a keenness to adopt a continuous improvement attitude.
• Support the continued validation and evolution of the cost model and bidding methodology within manufacturing to ensure competitiveness checks are in place on all bids.
• Ensuring costs reflect the latest assumptions, including Unit Production Cost (UPC) using actual cost data where possible and engineering estimates where not.
• Collect, summarise and present information or data, carrying out pre-defined analyses and ensuring completeness and accuracy, and provide it to others for use in decision-making. Challenge data and information provided to ensure the Bid Pack is clear, and fully auditable back to the data source.
• Ensure effective process governance in assigned areas ensuring projects adhere to all policies and procedures, promoting a culture of collaboration and sharing of knowledge; contributing to relevant overall bidding activities

Manufacturing Bid Lead experience required:

• Ideally have some experience in the defence industry, particularly working on bids
• A good understanding of the manufacturing process, from procurement through to delivery
• Commercially astute as working with cost models to generate costings for direct/indirects, materials and other costs associated with manufacturing of products
• Experience working on complex bids advantageous (this is not necessarily the £Value)
• Strong presentation skills as the bid packs/cost brochures are generated using PowerPoint and presented to the Senior Management Team for approval
• Excellent communication skills, as the Bid Team work across all programmes, there are a lot of stakeholders and it is important to create your own networks
• Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team, with a proactive approach
• Ability to articulate theory that has been applied to a costing approach and ensure evidence is collated for audit purposes
• Experience of lessons learnt for ongoing continuous improvements in the bidding process

This company can offer you a fantastic chance to grow, develop and fulfil your career within a dynamic engineering environment and provide ongoing training, development, and progression opportunities.

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