GCAP Bid Lead in Preston

Location: Warton - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £56,766+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing

• Working within and integrating an International (GCAP) and National (FCAS), multi-disciplined team ensuring that both the customers and business requirements are met, supporting planning and general Bid Management activities – including integrating the estimating, commercial, supply chain and technical activities
• Interacting with bid stakeholders at appropriate levels, keeping the Bid Team informed and engaged
• Ensuring that various teams and stakeholders collaborate effectively to meet project objectives, review requirements and deliverables
• Maintain a Bid Schedule, ensuring topicality, strategic alignment and tracking progress where required
• Own the Bid Consolidated Schedule and act as the interface with the Programme Integration Team to report progress against activities and schedule milestones
• Manage the Bid input into the Line of Business and International reporting cadence
• Co-ordinating and maintaining Bid Assumptions, Exclusions and Dependencies (AED’s)
• Driving LCM clearance activities associated with the bid, drawing on the wider team where required, with a particular focus on Phase Review in support of bids

Your skills and experiences

• Bid experience
• Bid Management and early lifecycle experience
• Evidence of dealing with a variety of stakeholders across a complex organisation

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 Joint International Bid Team

Within this role, you will work across both GCAP and FCAS. For GCAP, it will be part of a Joint International Bid Team, responsible for bidding for future work for GCAP in support of Edgewing, the new Joint Venture responsible for delivery of GCAP. You will support the GCAP Head of Bids, supporting bid activities and working across an international multi-disciplinary team to provide integration and support where required. On the FCAS (National) side, the role would support the FCAS Head of National bids, working across a multifunctional integrated bid team responsible for producing, clearing and delivering bids to the UK MOD and Edgewing.

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

Closing Date: 19th 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.