Manufacturing Bid Lead

Manufacturing Bid Lead

Sector: Aerospace & Defence | UK | Bolton

12-month contract – Pay rate up to £33/hour DoE

A leading defence organisation is seeking a Manufacturing Bid Lead to support new business activity and deliver industrial transfer and offload programmes within a complex engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce competitive and compliant manufacturing bids for industrial transfer work packages.
• Deliver industrial transfer projects, ensuring performance to time, cost and quality, with clear progress reporting and issue resolution.
• Lead the manufacturing offload process, working with manufacturing and procurement teams to identify suppliers and develop business cases.
• Implement manufacturing strategy and industrial policy aligned to new business pipelines and technology roadmaps.
• Support new business capture activity and maintain strong internal and supplier stakeholder relationships.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of manufacturing processes and functional excellence initiatives.

Skills & Experience

• Proven project management experience delivering fixed‑cost programmes within a matrix organisation.
• Background in manufacturing, engineering or production environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proactive, decisive and commercially aware, with the ability to balance strategic and day‑to‑day delivery.
• Security clearance or eligibility to obtain clearance will be required.

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