Location: Manor Royal Crawley, United Kingdom
R0277056
Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.
What the Role Has to Offer:
This role is an opportunity to assist on major bids that are critical to the long term strategy of UWS and Thales, and lead on lower value bids. You will be working as part of an established team in one of the most exciting areas of the business with a great opportunity to get a wide overview of the business.
Primary Purpose of the Role:
The purpose of this role is to provide support to delivery of Bids within the UWS domain, involving bid management activities across any of the anti-submarine, mine warfare, future capabilities or post-contract support sectors. The role is to ensure that the Initial Project baseline for Project execution (post contract award) is robust, with an appropriate level of confidence that customer and business expectations will be met. This will be achieved through the leadership of a multi-disciplinary Bid team to own and deliver high quality business winning proposals.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
* Exhibiting the Leadership at Thales model behaviours
* Assistance to help embed a strong sense of delivery accountability and a proactive risk and opportunity management culture (for both ‘winability’ and ‘deliverability’) at all levels of the bid team
* Assistance with creating and controlling the bid schedule and resource plan; leading and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams to achieve key milestones
* Providing input to ensuring the creation of robust initial project baselines for delivery post-contract award
* Supporting the management of customer, supplier and partner relationships – building trust and confidence through open dialogue
* Ensuring that all bid activities comply with the relevant Thales Chorus 2 processes
* Assistance and input to management and control of bid budgets (including status and forecast) for all Bids within their working perimeter and liaison with PMO to reflect in appropriate tools E.g. Oracle, P6.
Experience:
* Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Good English and grammar skills for writing presentations and proposals
* Awareness of technical and non-technical requirements on complex bids and/or projects.
Skills:
* Experience in a bid and/or project context, including the ability to adapt personal style to achieve the desired results
* Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills with written presentation and report writing skills
* Organisation and analytical skills
* A positive attitude combined with excellent interpersonal and motivational skills.
Qualifications:
* Professional project management qualifications - IPMA and/or APMP membership or equivalent.
Security Clearance statement:
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.
What we can offer:
We are 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.
Flexibility:
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.
The Work Environment:
At Thales, we believe in flexible SMART working and have the expectation this role will be delivered through a combination of remote and office based collaborative working.
Benefits at Thales:
* Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
* Pension Scheme
* 28 days annual leave (Plus Bank Holidays)
* Life Cover
* Progression and Development Opportunities
* 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
* Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
Great journeys start here, apply now!
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