Overview

Job title: Bid Manager

Location: Barrow, Sheffield or Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £57,200+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing

Driving and inspiring cross-functional teams to deliver compelling bids from kick-off to submission, ensuring seamless collaboration across the entire bid lifecycle

Shaping winning strategies and standout value propositions that align perfectly with customer needs and priorities

Owning the bid process with precision, ensuring full compliance with both customer requirements and internal governance standards

Your skills and experiences

Essential:

• Proven track record of leading and winning complex, high-value bids, driving strategy and execution in competitive, fast-paced environments
• Dynamic and influential leader, skilled at steering cross-functional teams toward shared goals, ensuring every bid is delivered with clarity, cohesion, and excellence
• Commercially astute with deep financial insight, bringing hands-on experience in costing, pricing, and building profitability models that drive smart business decisions
• Well-versed in industry-standard bid methodologies, applying structured approaches to ensure consistency, quality, and compliance throughout the bid process
• Exceptional communicator and presenter, adept at engaging and influencing senior stakeholders and suppliers, building trust and alignment across all levels

Desirable:

• APMP Practitioner or equivalent certificate
• Experience contributing or leading international bid efforts

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Bid Platforms and Services Team

As our Bid Manager, you’ll play a key role in leading bid activity across our global customer base, spanning a diverse and dynamic portfolio of platforms and programmes. This role offers plenty of variety, challenge, and the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact projects.

As part of BAE Systems Platforms and Services sector, Weapon Systems (UK) designs, develops, manufactures, and supports artillery systems, naval guns, and provides engineering capability to the wider BAE Systems business. Our global reach brings our customers a depth and breadth of expertise that meet critical needs in the air, on land, and at sea. Our mission strives for us to be our customer’s trusted and affordable weapons provider, delivering enhanced effects on target and complete mission solutions. We are looking for innovation, commitment and drive to help define the future of Weapon Systems capabilities.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Closing Date: 16th September 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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