Bid Manager
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Sales accounts and business development managers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£55,200
(£28.31 per hour)
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Description
Title: Bid Manager (EMEA)
Level: Specialist (S)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – Three (3) days a week in London office
Company Overview
Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects-as-a-service across Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic domains via its capability groups. Metrea also consists of six support groups (Operations, People, Finance, Legal, Strategy, and Solutions) that guide the development of specific capabilities that Metrea's files (products, projects, programmes) leverage to achieve their targets.
Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced Bid Manager to lead the delivery of bids and proposals across the UK and Europe. The role involves managing end-to-end bid activity for allocated opportunities, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring high quality, compliant submissions are delivered on time.
The successful candidate will be comfortable working across bids of varying size and complexity, balancing pace with structure, and operating confidently in fast-moving environments.
Responsibilities
Level: Specialist (S)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – Three (3) days a week in London office
Company Overview
Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects-as-a-service across Aerospace, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Digital & Synthetic domains via its capability groups. Metrea also consists of six support groups (Operations, People, Finance, Legal, Strategy, and Solutions) that guide the development of specific capabilities that Metrea's files (products, projects, programmes) leverage to achieve their targets.
Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced Bid Manager to lead the delivery of bids and proposals across the UK and Europe. The role involves managing end-to-end bid activity for allocated opportunities, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring high quality, compliant submissions are delivered on time.
The successful candidate will be comfortable working across bids of varying size and complexity, balancing pace with structure, and operating confidently in fast-moving environments.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end bid delivery for allocated opportunities, from qualification through to submission, in line with our bid framework.
- Plan and coordinate bid schedules, reviews, and inputs to ensure timely, well governed, delivery.
- Lead multi disciplinary bid teams, working with finance, legal, commercial, and technical stakeholders.
- Support capture activity by helping to shape win strategies, capture plans, and probability of win improvement.
- Ensure submissions are compliant, clearly structured, and tailored to customer requirements.
- Work with Market Development to apply consistent bid/no bid discipline and support effective use of resources.
- Capture lessons learned and feedback to support continuous improvement of bid delivery practices and content.
- Actively contribute to the bid library by uploading and applying content, templates, and proposal tools (including AI enabled tools where available).
- Support ongoing opportunity awareness by monitoring relevant frameworks and portals and sharing early insights as appropriate.
- Support preparation of pipeline reporting packs by chasing inputs, maintaining data quality, and highlighting risks or gaps ahead of reviews.
Skills And Experience
Current or able to obtain UK Security Clearance
Our Firmware
- Typically 2+ year’s experience managing bids and proposals, ideally within defence, aerospace, government, or similarly regulated environments.
- Demonstrable ability to manage multiple bids concurrently, including both complex and fast turnaround submissions.
- Familiarity with structured bid or capture methodologies (e.g. Shipley or equivalent).
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise effectively under pressure.
- Confident stakeholder management and clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce persuasive, high quality bid content.
- Commercial awareness, including experience working with cost inputs and pricing information.
- A proactive, continuous improvement mindset, with experience capturing and applying post bid learning.
- Experience working with protectively marked or sensitive information is desirable.
- APMP Certification (or working towards) is desirable.
Current or able to obtain UK Security Clearance
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value, Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes—Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
Benefits
Private Medical Insurance
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Electric Car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrificed pension scheme
Free lunch on office days
Enhanced Parental Leave
30 days annual PTO plus b/h
Bonus Scheme
Personal development opportunities
Right to Work
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
Benefits
Private Medical Insurance
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Electric Car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Salary sacrificed pension scheme
Free lunch on office days
Enhanced Parental Leave
30 days annual PTO plus b/h
Bonus Scheme
Personal development opportunities
Right to Work
The employee will have the legal right to work in the (relevant country) and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Metrea Management Limited (MAM) (edit as per capability) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.
Work Location
Hybrid / London office 3 days per week
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting
Travel
Travel to other UK office locations as required.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Metrea Management Limited (MAM) (edit as per capability) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.
Work Location
Hybrid / London office 3 days per week
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting
Travel
Travel to other UK office locations as required.