Rheinmetall
Business Project Manager
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What We Are Looking For
Position Purpose
The New Business Project Manager plays a critical role in securing new business for RMMV UK and wider Rheinmetall UK entities.
The postholder provides specialist bid, tender, and capture support, ensuring the organisation can respond effectively to high-tempo competitions, accelerated tender timelines, and evolving customer requirements.
This role requires someone who can lead end-to-end bid activity, shape opportunities early, coordinate diverse stakeholders, and maintain delivery discipline across multiple concurrent pursuits. The position is central to maintaining competitive advantage, ensuring governance compliance, and enabling coherent strategy and programme alignment across current and future vehicle programmes.
Position Responsibilities
- Bid Coordination — Lead the planning, development, and submission of bids, ensuring alignment with requirements, evaluation criteria, and internal governance processes.
- Capture Planning — Shape opportunities before tender release, develop win themes, and support customer engagement to strengthen competitive positioning.
- Stakeholder Management — Coordinate contributions from UK and European teams, suppliers, engineering, commercial, and finance to ensure coherent, high-quality bid outputs.
- Commercial & Pricing Support — Support cost modelling, pricing strategies, and commercial narratives that reflect customer affordability and value drivers.
- Bid Compliance & Risk — Ensure compliance with procurement rules, identify bid and delivery risks, and support mitigation planning.
- Framework Competition Support — Deliver responses for frameworks, including logistics vehicle programmes and urgent operational requirements.
- Trial & Demonstration Coordination — Manage planning, logistics, supplier engagement, and risk for vehicle trials, demonstrations, and deployment activities.
- Strategy & Cross-Programme Alignment — Support strategy and programme coherence across SV, future programmes, and related Rheinmetall initiatives to ensure consistent messaging and solution alignment.
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What Qualifications You Should Have
Experience & Educational Requirements
- Experience in MOD procurement, competitive tendering, and framework submissions.
- Bid management experience in defence, automotive, or complex engineering environments.
- Strong commercial acumen and pricing/cost modelling capability.
- Proven ability to manage multiple bids under tight deadlines.
- Experience coordinating trials, demonstrations, or technical deployments.
- Skilled in MS Project, risk management tools (e.g., ARM), and advanced Excel.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Desirable: APMP/PRINCE qualifications, engineering background, EVM understanding.
- Degree in engineering, business, or related field; experience in capture/bid management of complex systems.
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What We Offer You
- A competitive salary, that also includes an annual incentive based on your performance in the role.
- 25 days holiday and the option to buy a further 5 days.
- Match contribution pension scheme.
- Private Medical cover.
- Salary sacrifice benefits such as cycle to work.
- Electronic Vehicle Scheme.
- Flexible working hours and location split between home and office.
- An opportunity to join the company at a really exciting time of growth and an opportunity to develop this key role in support of that growth.
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