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You work closely with Sales, technical teams, and cross-functional stakeholders across geographies and time zones to coordinate bid delivery. Additionally, you contribute to the continuous improvement of the bid management activities by enhancing productivity, consistency, and knowledge reuse.\nYou operate in a fast-paced and evolving environment, gaining exposure to strategic projects at the cutting edge of the satellite communications industry. You are a fast learner, comfortable with ambiguity, and actively contribute to continuous improvement and AI adoption within the team.\nResponsibilities\nCoordinate and manage the end-to-end bid process for medium to large opportunities in collaboration with cross-functional teams across different seniority levels and regions.\n\nWork closely with global Sales teams and with Executive Leadership to deliver winning bids across all the stages of an opportunity (from early pursuit to RFx or contract negotiations).\n\nManage the activities of the bid lifecycle:\nQualify: Support RFP analysis, requirement understanding, and risk identification.\n\nStrategize: Contribute to win themes and positioning.\n\nCreate: Develop structured, high-quality proposal content.\n\nSharpen: Enhance clarity, consistency, and differentiation of messaging.\n\nReview: Ensure compliance and quality through checks and structured reviews.\n\nSupport pricing, cost modelling, and business case preparation.\n\nIdentify and track risks across the bid lifecycle and ensure proper escalation.\n\nEnsure timely, compliant, and high-quality submission of proposals.\n\nContribute to the reuse of best practices, templates, and approved content.\n\nParticipate in continuous improvement initiatives, including AI experimentation, knowledge sharing, and playbook development.\n\nQualifications\nAt least 3 years of experience in bid management, pre-sales, project coordination, or similar environments (exposure to EU/ESA funding schemes is a plus).\nStrong organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple inputs and stakeholders.\nComfortable working in an international, fast-paced, and evolving environment.\nInterest in AI tools and digital ways of working, with willingness to learn and experiment.\nGood understanding of commercial drivers and solution-based selling.\nStrong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.\nFluent in English; additional languages are a plus.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2760,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"Advanced (C1)","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Military","Satellite Communications","Military Communication"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T21:01:22Z"}],"liveness":{"score":81,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":0.9,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":41,"reasons":["conf:77","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/idirect-bid-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/idirect-bid-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T01:50:22Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1358,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3642,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}