A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Bid Officer to join the team with our prestigious client, this is a hybrid role 2-3 days per week at their site in Stevenage

Overview of department:

The Test Equipment New Business Support (TE NBS) role will form part of a small team working within an international ‘Test Equipment Design/delivery’ function, developing test solutions for domestic/internal and export customers. The UK test equipment team works very closely with our international colleagues in France.

Responsibilities:

The purpose of this role is to support the Test Equipment bidding team to produce technical costed proposals for all the UK delivered test solutions, for Development, Production and Export.
This includes liaising with the design/technical teams and subject matter expert&8217;s to provide technical costed proposals to the programs, ensuring consistency and delivery on-time. This role will support multi-programme demands ensuring we meet the bid delivery time-scales and programme objectives.
This role has responsibility to ensure contribution to the growing team delivery of these bids on-time, on-quality and on-cost to meet the programme needs.

Key Accountabilities

• Generation and compilation of UK bid costs from multi-disciplined areas of the business (including an international supplied cost-base). Subsequent generation of the technical costed proposals and where required presentation to the UK programs.
• Accountability for ensuring the UK bid team make quick, informed decisions and taking initiative in the face of evolving project requirements and unexpected disruptions.
• Working as part of the small UK team, taking direction from the New Business Manager, to generate the cost data and subsequent presentation material,
• Manage the configuration control of the bidding data, with data entry into the Data Management Systems tools (Matrix, JIRA, Primavera etc. - all training to be provided).
• Maintain cross-functional alignment – acting as a bridge between internal customers to Hardware Design, Software Design, Procurement, Quality, manufacturing etc. to keep work flows co-ordinated and avoid bottlenecks.
• Maintain positive working relationships with Key Interfaces & stakeholders and to promote the Test Equipment function. Engage with, manage and motivate all interfaces, both programs, peers and subject matter experts for successful outcomes.
• Manage the achievement of schedule adherence and delivery of (Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) through the execution of the bidding/planning process.
• Provide advice and support to test equipment and program teams and stakeholders, detailing best practice
• Identifying and supporting opportunities for improvement.
• Generating and developing documentation, reports, plans and communications. Delivery, presentation and reporting to an International test equipment leadership team.
• Promote and support the international Test Equipment Centre of Excellence (TE CofEx) within the organisation.

Key Performance Indicators

• Managing the compilation of multiple bid deliveries to programs, OT, OC, OQ.
• Working to our processes ensuring configuration control and data management using our IT tools/systems.
• Maintaining positive working relationships with Key program interfaces, stakeholders, and Test Equipment leadership teams
• Balancing Short term delivery deadlines with long term strategic goals

Skill set/experience required:

• Compilation of bid data sourced from technical subject matter experts into standardised bid pro forma.
• Ability to communicate with different areas and levels of the business.
Liaising and interfacing with the bid requesting customers (internal programs), technical teams, subject matter experts, and test equipment leadership teams.
• Use of common office tools (Excel, Word. PowerPoint etc.)
• Experience within an engineering discipline and knowledge of a product ‘through life’ design life-cycle (concept, development, Integration & validation, delivery, support etc.) ideal but not essential
Primavera experience ideal but not essential.
Ability to work at site (flexible dynamic working arrangements available with ‘Working from Home’ part time option, preferably with 2-3 days minimum a week on-site at Stevenage (more initially to facilitate training etc.).
Flexibility to support occasional short term travel (1 or 2 nights), with ability to support at site visits at Bolton UK and Paris France, should a need arise.
Some international travel to France may be required – the ability to speak French is not essential.
Training on bidding process and IT tools will be provided as needed

Recognising the RESTRICTED nature of the work, suitable candidates will be SC cleared or eligible for this level of clearance