Manufacturing Bid Lead

Job Description

We’re looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Manufacturing New Business Bid Team. Supporting both the Design (New Concept) & Manufacture (Series Production) phases of bidding, across MBDA’s full range of programmes and projects.

Salary: Circa £45,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 1-2 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The opportunity:

To join a dynamic, forward thinking bid team, focusing on complex New Business D&M-Phase bid generation. This is a unique opportunity to build a strong stakeholder management network covering all of Manufacturing Programmes, projects and for all products.

In this role your main focus will include interpreting bid directives, cost modelling, utilising multiple data sources and creating 3-point estimations. You will have the ability to perform advanced data analytics to inform bid content, applying robust methodologies with strong commercial acumen and a focus on Risk and AED’s.

Experience in generating an auditable manufacturing cost base for bids in D&M Phase or similar is desirable and excellent presentation skills are required as all bids are presented to the Senior Management Team (SMT) for approval. This role will require a resilience in delivering to demanding timescales and priorities.

The team has grown in recent years evolving the process of generating cost models by introducing new methodologies and enhancements to how a bid is populated. By ensuring each bid is auditable, with tangible source data and fresh ideas. We welcome your ideas to help our continuous improvement to support bidding excellence.

The position has become available due to a significant increase in both D & M-Phase Bidding activity, with the need to grow the team further in the generation of compliant complex bids on Major Programmes working closely with our Manufacturing Programmes team, in a collaborative, high-performing environment.

What we're looking for from you:

• Experience working on complex bids with a proven record of accomplishment in the creation of auditable cost models, proposals and bids
• Commercially astute as working with cost models to generate costings for direct/in directs, materials and other costs associated with manufacturing of products
• Experience in the defence industry, particularly working on bids in Concept/Development phase through to Manufacturing phase would be advantageous
• An enthusiastic and driven individual, bringing tenacity and resilience to overcome challenges and deliver consistently strong bids
• Excellent communication skills, as the Bid Team work across all programmes, there are a lot of stakeholders and it is important to create own networks and build strong relationships experience of working within multi-functional teams
• 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

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