Senior Bid Manager

Spire Global is a space-to-cloud data and analytics company that owns and operates one of the largest constellations of satellites. Our proprietary data collection and processing techniques provide the most advanced maritime, aviation, weather, and earth intelligence data in the world. In addition to our comprehensive data services, Spire provides access to our satellite systems, global ground station network, and cloud-based processing infrastructure to offer unprecedented Space Services. 

As a Senior Bid Manager focused on supporting satellite development bidding activity, you will join a growing team responsible for providing unique space-based solutions to commercial and government customers. You will engage directly with several internal stakeholders including Engineering, Sales, Legal, finance as well as customers to deliver compelling proposals. You will collaborate closely with your Sales colleagues to manage the internal pipeline of opportunities through Spire’s sales governance, as well as developing customer specific high impact value propositions.

The role of the Senior Bid Manager requires a methodical, customer centric mindset with outstanding attention to detail and ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with all levels of the organization. It will require developing a deep understanding of Spire’s technical capabilities and customer environment to deliver winning proposals.

Responsibilities of your role

• Be a senior member of the Bid and Sales Engineering (SE) team, responsible for ensuring Spire’s proposals are delivered with consistently high quality, customer-value focused content
• Own the bid process and ensure proposals are managed through review gates, including scope, schedule, cost and risk reviews
• Develop value propositions with SE and Sales, translating these effectively into custom proposals 
• Work with Sales and Sales engineering to ensure the technical writing and graphics in proposals is to a high standard
• Lead both fast paced commercial and high value & complexity government tenders
• Owning the core templates for proposals to customers
• Owning the templates for internal deliverable templates required for submitting proposals supporting Spire’s Sales Review Process

Required Qualifications / Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in a bid/proposals/capture management role, leading cross-functional teams
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant Business, Finance or Engineering field
• Proven track record of managing highly complex bid pipelines, ideally in the Aerospace or Space industry
• The drive and energy to work in a fast paced, high-performance environment
• Proven track record in generation of value propositions for tenders in commercial or government customers & proficient use of business winning toolkits to deliver compelling proposals
  
  

Strong candidates will also possess skills or have direct experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Experience in the development of competitive tenders
• Knowledge and experience of business finance, working with subject matter experts on costing for high complexity programmes
• Experience in risk management & generation of risk registers for bids
• Experience of bid planning and management for high value, complexity and volume of bids through internal governance, effectively managing internal stakeholders to ensure on time delivery.
• Experience in government bidding in regulatory onerous environments, such as Aerospace and Space
• Proficiency in technical writing of proposals documents
  
  

Spire operates a hybrid work model, and this position will require you to work a minimum of three days per week in the office. Access to US export-controlled software and/or technology may be required for this role. If needed, Spire will arrange the necessary licenses—this is not something candidates need to have before applying. #LI-MI1