Bid manager

Are you up for a challenge within Bid management and become part of our Commercial team? We are looking for communicative Project Leader who enjoys driving Bid operations and strengthen the tem in this exciting area. The understanding of contracts, technical projects and an interest of keeping the numbers right is essential.

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Your role

As a Bid Manager, you have a coordinating role for all necessary parts included in a bid. You are responsible for start-up meetings, coordinating the calculating organizations and make sure that steps in the Winning Business process are handled accordingly. This includes the compilation of bids for submarine and surface ship projects as well as defining delivery plans and risk assessment.


In your role you will be focusing on ensuring;

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Development of proposals that meet customer expectations and enhance win probability
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Well prepared execution plans and deliver to schedules
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Good control of predicted internal costs, bought out cost and associated risks
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Well prepared and negotiated contracts


The primary professional interface you will have consist of the: Product Sales Responsible (PSR) within Saab Kockums together with Commercial Manager, operations stakeholders and technical Project Manager.

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.



Your profile

You are a motivated, communicative Project Manager with a good understanding of projects in a technical and commercial context. Preferably, you have worked with bid operations in large projects. You are a team player and enjoy calculating in line with given conditions, sometimes in-depth and sometimes more of an overall estimate. You are interested in developing our ways of working with our different interfaces and within our internal line organization. Your qualifications also consists of:

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Good knowledge within project cost control and calculating structures.
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Commercial knowledge and strong understanding of contracts on an international arena
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Knowledge and interest of risk management
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Previous Project Management or team leader experience.
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Good communicative ability in both spoken and written Swedish and English
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Thrives in a global and complex business environment.
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Driving license



What you will be a part of

This is a great opportunity to be part of building and further strengthen Saabs business area Kockums and at the same time develop. You will cooperate with a highly skilled team who look forward to welcome you to the business. The position is located in Malmö or Karlskrona.



Kockums is a world leader in its segment in the development, production and in-service support of submarines, surface vessels and naval systems. The product portfolio includes submarines with air-independent propulsion, surface ships with stealth technology, minesweeping systems, and high-speed patrol and pilot boats. Kockums also supplies subsystems and components for integration in naval solutions for customers in and outside Sweden.



Inside our leading naval factory


If you are interested in what benefits you can take part of as an employee at Saab in Sweden, you can read more about them here.



Last application date is 17h of november, however please note we work with an ongoing selection and the position might be filled before closing date. Your application may be in Swedish or English.



If you aspire to help create and innovate whilst developing yourself in a challenging team setting, Saab may well have the perfect conditions for you to grow. We pride ourselves on a nurturing environment, where everyone is different yet we share the same goal - to help protect people.