Bid Project Manager (Chatham)

Location: Rochester; Kent

Salary: Circa 62,000 depending on experience

What you'll be doing:

• Leading complex bids as structured projects, from opportunity shaping and campaign launch through to submission, negotiation and contract award
• Owning the end-to-end bid plan, including schedule, budget, risks and dependencies, applying effective project management discipline throughout
• Developing and delivering bid strategies aligned to capture plans, customer requirements and commercial objectives
• Applying appropriate governance, controls and assurance to ensure bids are delivered on time, to quality and in compliance with internal and customer requirements
• Proactively managing risks and opportunities, working with multi-disciplinary teams to define and implement mitigation and optimisation actions
• Leading and influencing cross-functional teams, including engineering, commercial, finance, procurement and supply chain
• Building productive relationships with internal stakeholders, customers, partners and suppliers, supported by clear reporting to senior leaders
• Ensuring a smooth handover to Project Execution teams, capturing lessons learned to support continuous improvement in bid and early-lifecycle activity
• Some travel may be required within the UK and overseas on an ad-hoc basis

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience leading complex bids, proposals or early-lifecycle projects from capture through to contract award, within engineering, aerospace, defence or similarly regulated environments
• Application of project management activities within bid environments, including planning, scheduling, risk management, governance and controls
• Experience across early lifecycle phases, including campaigns, new business proposals and early solution development
• Experience working with commercial and financial inputs during bids, including cost, schedule and risk considerations

Desirable:

• APMQ or equivalent project management qualification

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Electronics Systems Team:

This exciting opportunity is within the Electronic Systems business areas at BAE Systems, Rochester, Kent. Here at Electronic Systems, we produce commercial and defence electronics for flight and engine control, maritime controls, electronic warfare, surveillance, communications, geospatial intelligence, and power and energy management. Our programmes vary in size and complexity with values ranging from 100ks to 10ms with teams of up to 250 people.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you'll be able to make a real difference. You'll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 17th February 2026. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.