Job at a glance
This role requires someone with strong leadership skills, extensive technical proposal writing expertise, and sound customer knowledge to create an environment of performing better than planned. You will oversee tender writing for large-scale, complex proposals as well as support change proposal writing within the current contract providing technical direction and guidance to the project management team.
Bid Project Management Responsibilities: Strategic Project Planning and Management: Develop and manage comprehensive, accurate project plans that align with Boeing's strategic goals and comply with MoD standards. Ensure all project aspects support Boeing's position as preferred partner, whilst aligning with Boeing Strategy, controlling business risk and delivering proposal artefacts to time, cost and quality to meet current contract SLAs, and future business competitive tender timelines.
Market Analysis: Contribute to market and competitive analysis to understand the market for assigned captures / campaigns / programs. Relationships: Build and maintain relationships at senior management level (company, customer, and partners) in order to develop trust, gain customer insight and intelligence, shape customer requirements and position Boeing as the preferred partner (increase PWin). Solution Development: Assist the Capture Team Lead (CTL) to drive the project solution development and support technical solution activities, ensuring that solution maturity matches or exceeds customer expectations throughout the capture lifecycle and/or Boeing Design Assurance Process.
Cost Management: Produce the WBS and OBS which informs the BOE's and ensures that the functional leads creating the estimates understand what they are being asked to deliver. Commercial Acumen: With support from the Commercial Manager, assess bid proposals for project and programme risks, clearly articulating through RAIDO in the bid document, allocated financial weighting as appropriate and implement mitigations into the bid Solution.
Presentations & Negotiations: Support the Capture team in customer presentations, demos, and negotiations for Programme elements. Gate Reviews: Present the Programme elements of the Gate Reviews to obtain senior business buy-in of the proposal. Bid Documentation: Lead the writing of key bid documentation. Frameworks: Assess relevant Frameworks to identify opportunities that align with BDUK's strategic objectives and the expertise and experience of the organisation's resources.
First time Quality: Ensure Bid team deliverable submissions to internal governance process and customer are accurate and pass the Gate first time. Core Project Management Responsibilities: Strategic Project Planning and Management: Develop and manage comprehensive project plans that align with Boeing's strategic goals and comply with MoD standards. Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and budget.
Leadership and Oversight: Lead and direct all phases of large-scale, complex technical projects or subsystems of major projects from inception through completion, including technical aspects of ongoing projects. Executive Liaison: Act as the primary technical contact between senior management, project team, MoD representatives, and other defence partners. Communicate project status, risks, and issues effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Advanced Performance Analysis: Utilise advanced trend, earned value, variance analyses, and risk assessments to develop technical plans or recommend changes to ensure performance goals are met. Implementation of Best Practice: Utilise Boeing Programme Management Best Practices (PMBP) and technical industry standards to develop a robust operating and reporting rhythm for technical programmes. Stakeholder Engagement: Establish and manage key requirements and objectives with stakeholders, ensuring all deliverables meet project specifications.
Senior Team Management: Manage and mentor all assigned technical