Bid Manager
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Job Location:
Chelmsford - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
12 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Be visionary
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense factory automation air and water quality environmental monitoring electronics design and development oceanographic research deepwater oil and gas exploration and production medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.
We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.
Job Description
Teledyne e2v is a global leader in specialised components and subsystems for innovative solutions in medical science aerospace defence and industrial applications.
Our products are everywhere hospitals planes ships and even outer space but you will only see them if you know where to look.
Working with us will enable you to develop and gain experience in the ideas that are behind some of the most advanced technologies in the world. You will also get a chance to work alongside highly experienced engineers technicians and scientists.
Our products do many things including saving peoples lives by finding and treating cancer helping map our planet and the universe and freezing the atom down to 0 Kelvin.
With a long and enviable history of technical and scientific innovation Teledyne e2v is always working at the forefront of technology.
Overview
We are seeking an experienced and highly organised Bid Manager to lead the endtoend bid process for strategic customer opportunities. The successful candidate will play a dual rolemanaging complex bids while supporting broader Sales Operations activities. Strong experience with Salesforce for pipeline and bid management and SAP for pricing and reporting is essential.
Key Responsibilities
Bid Management & Coordination
- Manage the endtoend bid process from qualification and strategy creation through to submission.
- Run bid kick-off meetings and ensure alignment of timelines scope and responsibilities across all stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain detailed bid plans risk analyses and compliance matrices.
- Ensure all bids align with internal governance approval levels and audit requirements.
- Coordinate crossfunctional teams (sales engineering finance legal operations) to gather accurate input and ensure bid quality.
- Work with sales finance and commercial teams to develop competitive and profitable pricing strategies.
- Ensure commercial accuracy margin protection and risk mitigation.
- Maintain accurate and uptodate bid records opportunity stages and documentation.
- Facilitate postsubmission reviews and capture lessons learned to enhance future performance.
- Monitor pipeline health bid progress and reporting metrics to support sales forecasting.
- Provide data insights and recommendations to enhance win probability.
Sales Operations Support
- Support the Sales Leadership Team with operational reporting analysis and process improvement.
- Maintain CRM data quality ensuring opportunity hygiene forecasting accuracy and compliance with sales processes.
- Prepare dashboards sales performance reports and executive summaries using Salesforce data.
- Work closely with sales teams to optimise the use of Salesforce workflows templates and automation.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within sales processes bid governance documentation libraries and pricing tools.
Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience managing bids in a technical engineering or highreliability environment (healthcare aerospace defence industrial or similar).
- Strong working knowledge of Salesforce (opportunity management reporting dashboards).
- Handson experience with SAP in a commercial sales or operations environment.
- Excellent project management and stakeholder coordination skills.
- Exceptional writing editing and communication capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent bids in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable
- Strong commercial awareness with high attention to detail.
- Experience in Sales Operations or Commercial Operations.
- APMP Shipley or similar bid management certification.
- Experience with cost modelling margin analysis and pricing structures
- Proficiency with Excel (lookups pivot tables nested formulas)
- Experience using Power BI or similar analytics tools
- Skilled in document management platforms (Teams SharePoint)
Personal Attributes
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational communication and cross-functional coordination skills.
- Proactive and able to drive tasks forward without constant oversight.
- Calm under pressure and comfortable with tight deadlines.
- Collaborative solutions-focused and commercially aware.
- Reliable accountable and committed to high-quality outcomes.
Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws regulations rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Marketing
- Risk Management
- Adobe Acrobat
- Construction Estimating
- Microsoft Outlook
- Account Management
- Content Development
- Project Management
- Auto Estimating
- Proposal Writing
- Unity
- Contracts
About Company
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