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Job title: Senior Bid Manager Location: Belfast (hybrid working – 3 days per week in the office vs. home) Hours: Full time or part time opportunities available Do you have a positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills? Do you enjoy being able to generate or initiate innovative solutions? Do you pride yourself on leading bid teams, shaping compelling and competitive offers to clients? Then look no further… What the role has to offer: • Working in an exciting dynamic fast paced environment, • Working on high tech interesting projects, • Working in a team environment with individual work tasks Core Benefits: On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes; • Performance-related bonus, • Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm, • 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata), • 24 hours volunteering paid for, • Private healthcare (grade dependent), • Pension scheme, • Life cover, • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app, • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers, • Gym membership discounts Our Opportunity: This is a truly demanding and interesting role where you will gain exposure across a wide variety of bids and where you will be responsible for leading the bid team to ensure successful bid production and delivery. You will put your professional bid management capabilities to the test by giving rigour to change control, commercial awareness and stakeholder management. Key responsibilities include: • Bringing structure, clarity and governance to the bid process., • Helping shape solutions to provide compelling offers to our customers., • Managing strong relationships with internal and external key UK and international customers., • Managing multi-disciplinary bid teams to deliver high quality business winning proposals., • Applying business acumen to maximise Thales’ position to secure new business., • Managing the preparation of prequalification response submissions to customers with the objective of securing an invitation to bid., • Leading in Bid Kick-Off meetings, providing bid management direction and engagement with the Bid Team., • Managing the creation of the bid deliverables, shaping a compelling offer and ensuring review and governance, leading to the creation of a high-quality proposal. About You: We would be keen to see an application from you if you have the following skills/experience: • A proven track record of managing and delivering successful bids in contexts relevant to Thales: defence, heavy engineering (aerospace, rail, energy, marine), or construction, or IT infrastructure backgrounds., • Experience managing large, complex bids., • Full business/bid lifecycle management, including capture, qualification and developing capture plans and winning strategies., • Experience of working across boundaries, including knowledge of commercial management, finance functions., • A working knowledge of industry standard approaches to bid management (such as Shipley Capture Bench)., • The ability to successfully manage a bid team and to drive solutions to successful conclusion., • Negotiation skills with the ability to deal with customers, partners, suppliers and other parts of the business (stakeholder management skills).

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. Service Development Manager Location: Belfast- Hybrid working (The position may involve periods of extensive travel overseas.) Our Opportunity We have an excellent opportunity for a Service Development Manager within the IAS UK (Integrated Airspace Protection Systems UK) business line of Thales, based out of Belfast. This is a Product Support related role where the jobholder is responsible for the development, implementation and delivery of all Product Support aspects of Services, including the tactical and technical aspects relating to the operation, deployment and support of IAS UK Products and Systems. The objective of this role is to build and maintain Customer relationships with both the Customer and End Users, ensuring that customer satisfaction is delivered across all aspects of service delivery. Roles & Responsibilities The job holder shall support the IAS UK Service Delivery function by: • Providing Subject Matter Expert (SME) Product Support, both internally within Thales, and externally within the Customer and User communities, providing detailed tactical and technical knowledge of the operation and deployment of Company Products., • Undertaking full responsibility for Lead End User interface across all aspects of Product Support and at all levels of seniority., • Providing expert guidance into the design, development of each support element, including the transition of prime equipment into service., • Acting as the lead customer interface for all Product Support related issues, and ensuring that customer requirements are clearly understood, defined and customer satisfaction is delivered., • Providing support to design, development and delivery of Product support including Training and Technical publications across all support aspects., • Leading investigations into, and resolution of system operational and performance issues, ensuring suitability of any resultant actions., • Liaising with OEM/DA, Training Team, Customer and End Users regarding future missile and platform software upgrades and their implementation. It is essential that the job-holder has: • Significant experience as a SME within Air Defence and the Force Protection sector., • Current and competent on Air Defence, concepts of use and concepts of operations, ideally from a military background having left the services within the last 24 months., • Significant experience in the design, delivery and validation of Product Support solutions., • Technical experience, including significant direct interface with customer personnel and end users across the customer organisation., • The jobholder must display strong leadership and motivational qualities to direct and achieve results from teams of people over whom he has no direct authority. The environment in which overseas support & services and range support are delivered is often uncertain. This jobholder needs to be flexible and able to adapt in order to manage and deliver high quality services. The jobholder will face complex situations, problems and will be required to develop a clear understanding of the position before selecting a course of action. In doing so the jobholder will rely on accumulated knowledge and experience. The position requires the ability to influence the customer perception of the company products and services and deal with customer problems in an autonomous manner It is desirable that the jobholder: • Is competent in developing, planning and delivering Product Support solutions, and interfacing effectively with IAS UK customers, including senior military personnel., • Has a detailed practical knowledge of a range of THALES products and sufficient experience to conduct practical technical support on system operation, equipment maintenance, detailed testing, trouble shooting and setting to work procedures. Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires you to achieve Security Clearance (SC) without any caveats. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance prior to commencing employment. To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years' residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK () What We Can Offer: We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation. Flexibility Your health and well-being matter to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. Other Benefits: On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes; • Annual Performance Bonus, • Matched Pension up to 7%, • 201hrs annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays), • Life Cover equivalent to 2X times annual salary, • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app, • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers #LI-RS1 In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency. At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles. Great journeys start here, apply now!