Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

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.

Job title:Bid Finance Manager

Location: Based at any Thales site in the UK, with travel to UK sites depending on business needs (Crawley / Cheadle / Templecombe / Reading / Glasgow / Belfast) - hybrid working arrangement - 3 days per week on site.

Are you an ambitious professional with a passion for delivering robust and commercial solutions?
Are you looking to help shape and influence the future prospects of our business?
Are you seeking a role that gives you a wide breadth and profile of exposure and excellent future career possibilities in a leading global organisation?

What the role has to offer:

• Help shape and impact business opportunities and projects
• Visibility across the whole of Thales on the service we provide
• Excellent career development opportunities

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

Key responsibilities:

As Bid Finance Manager, you will be part of the Thales Bid Finance Team, delivering cost engineering and turning estimates into prices for the Thales UK businesses. This is a unique, dynamic role and you will bring your experience to explore, support and influence prospects, working with other bid team members and Subject Matter Experts to help shape a business winning costed approach with the aim of continually improving the value of the output as it is used in our Project and Bid validation and governance.

As part of the Bid Finance team supporting the estimate collation, management and cost to price modelling of a range of business opportunities, you will use and develop your commercial awareness and stakeholder management to deliver these high quality, winning proposals.

You will work with capture, bid and projects / programmes teams as they define their approach, supporting the teams in generating robust and defendable costed solutions that deliver through the various phases of the development, manufacturing and support life cycles.

As our team and work is spread across a number of UK sites, the successful candidate can be based near any of the locations Thales has in the UK. However, the team ethos is to 'be where our work needs us to be' and so as such, short periods working at other Thales locations may be required, as needed, throughout the year (approx. 25%+).

About you:

You will have a degree in a relevant discipline or some equivalent experience in bids, projects, engineering or finance together with the following:-

• Proven experience and understanding of f inance and performance metrics
• Business acumen, demonstrated by commercial and financial awareness
• An effective communicator, able to articulate ideas and deliver information clearly and persuasively
• Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel
• Ability to work in multi-stakeholder environment and create clear and achievable goals
• Excellent organisation skills, capable of delivering to agreed timescales in a pressurised bidding environment, capable of appropriate attention to detail

Security Clearance statement:

Due to the nature of the work that we do at Thales, many of our roles are subject to security restrictions. This role requires Security Clearance (SC). 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. Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

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.

#LI-DNI

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.

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