Bid Manager

An exciting opportunity is available to join the Business Management team within the Training Academy. This is a leadership position responsible for managing and coordinating all Training Operations bids and proposals, ensuring high-quality, compliant submissions are delivered on time and within budget. Working closely with internal and international stakeholders, you will lead the end-to-end bid process, identify new business opportunities, and support the growth and development of the Training department.

As a Bids Manager, you will combine strong bid management and project leadership skills with excellent stakeholder engagement, helping to drive innovative, cost-effective training solutions for customers. You will also play an active role in developing training marketing materials, fostering strategic partnerships, and contributing to wider departmental leadership and business objectives.

For the awareness of internal applicants, this role is a JFF level 7.

• →Provide knowledge and expertise to lead and execute a Training Bids Service for the Training Department.
• →Interface and build relationships with the Italy Training Academy team as required in support of Intercompany activities
• →Responsible for the development of training marketing material for external and internal customers, liaising with department head on final products
• →Provide support to your direct manager, deputising when requested in their absences to achieve the business need.
• →Oversee, manage and coordinate each departmental response to ensure total compliance in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• →Develop initiatives to enhance and reduce customer training costs

This role may require national and international travel to Customers and Suppliers.

Essential Skills

• Interpersonal and written communication skills, the ability to make sound assessments/judgements based on knowledge and experience, self-motivated and able to both lead and work as part of an integrated team
• Excellent time management and project management
• Strong leadership experience which must include effective coaching, communication, team management and team building skills
• Aviation technical knowledge to enable the compilation of technical documentation
• Strategic thinker with the ability to inspire innovation across the organisation
• Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative, whilst being able to operate as part of a team
• Relevant experience working within a pan geographic / multi-cultural environment
• Be able to demonstrate resilience under pressure

Desirable skills

• Experience relevant to the helicopter industry or in a military helicopter environment.

The role is primarily based at the Leonardo Helicopters site in Yeovil, Somerset, a minimum of 3-4 days per week in the office is required to be effective in this role.

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting