Are you ready to make a difference in global security? Rapiscan Systems, an industry leader in detection technology, is seeking a dedicated Bid Manager to join our International Bid Team. We provide cutting-edge cargo and vehicle inspection systems and services to combat terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud. This is a remote role with some travel to site About Us: Rapiscan Systems offers a broad array of scanning system configurations leveraging low-, medium-, and high-energy X-ray technology to meet unique security application requirements. Our commitment to excellence in imaging performance, innovative design, and uncompromising quality ensures best-in-class imaging, high reliability, and operator satisfaction. Role Responsibilities: - Support the Sales Lead in driving technical and commercial bid/tender responses to improve sales success rates. - Manage the bidding interface between departments including Sales, Engineering, PMO, Logistics, and those with sign-off responsibility. - Provide transparency to risks within opportunities and work with stakeholders to provide mitigations. - Translate technical specifications into winning bid material with the assigned technical leads. - Develop and communicate best practice processes for bids, tenders, proposals, and direct sales. - Ensure adherence to the Rapiscan bid process in line with best practice. - Continuously improve the bid process and educate stakeholders involved in the tender and response process. - Produce compliant proposals that respond to specific client needs through liaison with SMEs. - Ensure timely proposal submissions against a Proposal Management Plan or Resource Allocation Table. - Contribute to the maintenance of the bid library. - Organize and chair formal bid reviews and communicate commercial issues to stakeholders. - Ensure thorough and complete bid qualification. Key Relationships: - Bids & Proposals Manager - Bids & Proposals team members - Sales team - Stakeholders for bids including PLM, Project Management, Service, Finance, Contracts, Compliance - Senior Management Team, Rapiscan Distributors, Customers Key Requirements: - Proven experience in a Bid Coordinator or Bid Management role. - Experience in preparing proposals through the whole bid lifecycle from bid evaluation to award. - Ability to work across all spectrums of proposal development including risk assessment, costing/pricing, contract analysis, technical input, authoring, and all tasks required for successful tender submission. - International bidding experience is an advantage. - Flexibility and willingness to work outside of normal hours and travel out of country if required. - Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to present information to internal and external stakeholders including senior management and customers. - Experience producing bids in a highly regulated industry. - Working experience with multidisciplinary teams including PMO, estimating, engineering, financial control, and commercial management disciplines. - Ability to lead multidisciplinary bid teams to achieve tight deadlines in a pressured environment. - Strong commercial awareness. - Excellent communication, presentation, and analytical skills. - Ability to prioritize and work on multiple bids concurrently. - Excellent attention to detail. ADZN1_UKTJ