MBDA2058-1 Manufacturing Bid Lead

Bid Lead / Manager
12 Month Initial Contract 
Bolton

The Company 
World Class Defence Organisation who bring together state-of-the-art expertise.
 
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The Role: 

• Bid lead on behalf of manufacturing, ensure clarity of scope within Bid Directive and content aligns with manufacturing industrial policy.
• Responsible for the generation of a cost base for manufacturing bids (Excel), analysing data to ensure it is quantifiable and has evidence backed data for 3-point estimating,
• Responsible for the generations of manufacturing bids (PowerPoint), ensuring they are competitive, compliant and are in line with all business and commercial criteria. All risks have been assessed effectively and are financial sound and competitive.
• Ensuring at all times Manufacturing is providing value added contributions to the bid directive.
• Ensuring manufacturing is a key stakeholder in the generation of bid data throughout the Life Cycle of the Project/Product and adequately prepared to manage and deliver competitive and complaint bid proposals.

The Individual  / Skills & Experience  

• Experience working on complex bids advantageous with a proven record of accomplishment in the generation of costed proposals/manufacturing bids.
• Experience within an engineering or production environment would be of preference.
• Commercially astute as working with cost models to generate costings for direct/in directs, materials and other costs associated with manufacturing of products
• Ability to articulate theory that has been applied to a costing approach and ensure evidence is collated for audit purposes
• Ensuring manufacturing is a key stakeholder in the generation of bid data throughout the Life Cycle of the Project/Product and adequately prepared to manage and deliver competitive and complaint bid proposals.
• Ensure effective process governance in assigned areas ensuring projects adhere to all policies and procedures, promoting a culture of best practice sharing and knowledge exploitation, and contributing to relevant overall bidding activities
• Experience using SAP/ Primates P6

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