Job Description

Project Bid Manager – Defence, MoD, Government

Salary: £60K-£75K plus pension, medical, life assurance, and many other benefits

Location: Portsmouth, Hybrid role

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated customer-facing Principal Project Manager with a strong background within the Defence sector. Our client requires a candidate from a technical consultancy background with strong bid management experience. You will have strong communication and interpersonal skills, line management experience, and be able to think strategically.

Our client is a rapidly expanding technical consultancy, renowned for their reputation and their ability to understand and meet customer requirements effectively. Their team is dedicated to delivering high-quality, end-to-end consultancy services, ranging from risk and investment analysis to P3M. They operate across multiple sectors including defence, nuclear, and space.

The Principal Project Manager will play a pivotal role in delivering end-to-end project and programme management services to their clients. You will work closely with stakeholders, project teams, and account leads to ensure successful delivery of projects and initiatives that align with business objectives. A key element of the role will be leading bid delivery and supporting management processes.

Qualifications/Experience required:

• Expertise in areas such as APM or equivalent project management qualifications, with substantial knowledge of agile project management.
• Educated to degree level and/or have equivalent relevant experience.
• A technically astute, highly experienced Programme/Project Manager with significant demonstrable experience operating in various project environments of different scales.
• Evidence of continuous professional development in project management.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including influencing, negotiating, and conflict management.
• Experience in writing proposals and coordinating bid management activities.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent technical projects through their full lifecycle.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and written skills.
• Ability to represent the company in client-facing roles, maintaining professionalism and delivery excellence.
• Supporting framework proposals and refreshes, including monitoring frameworks for opportunities and advising stakeholders on opportunities, working with the Account Manager on bid/no-bid meetings.

Additional requirements:

• Ability to travel and work from client sites across the UK, predominantly in the South and London, with occasional international travel.
• Experience working in a consultancy environment or with defence/government clients.
• Current SC or DV Security Clearance.

Keywords: Project Manager, Defence, MoD, Bid Management, Bids, Proposals, Strategy, APM, Line Management, Management Consultancy, Technical Consultancy