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Engineered to Protect, that's our promise
We protect what matters - our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
The purpose of this role
The purpose of this role is to lead capture activities for qualified opportunities, shaping SEA's winning strategy from early engagement through to bid submission in line with SEA's Business Winning Framework and governance gates.
Role details
The Capture Lead will be based at any of SEA's UK sites, with travel to any site as required by the role. This role allows for flexible and home working.
Salary: up to £80k, depending on experience.
What you'll be doing
- Own the end-to-end capture plan for strategically important opportunities, including the customer engagement plan, stakeholder map, competitive assessment and win themes.
- Define and communicate the win strategy and win story, ensuring alignment between customer need, SEA value proposition, solution approach, price position and delivery model.
- Lead internal opportunity shaping activities: clarify requirements, identify solution options, assess risks/opportunities and drive mitigation/closure actions.
The skills you need
- Proven experience of leading capture activities and shaping bids for complex programmes within defence, security or similarly regulated environments. Experience in marine products/solutions would be a bonus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a talent for coordinating multi-disciplinary teams, setting direction, prioritizing actions and driving timely decisions.
- Ability to bring an established network across UK and/or international defence customers, primes and integrators (maritime preferred), this would be a significant bonus.
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About our company
At SEA, we develop and deliver advanced solutions to make our world safer, cleaner and more efficient. We provide state-of-the-art applications for naval ship and fleet protection, and undersea surveillance systems. In-service across the globe, our systems deliver a rapid response to threats and system effectiveness and interoperability. Our systems support an ever-growing number of navies across the world, and we continue to bolster our already specialist, on-the-ground knowledge of key overseas markets.
What we offer
At our core, we encourage innovation, flexibility and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems, so we're always looking for talented, flexible, and creative people to bring their best to SEA. In return we offer generous rewards, a fantastic work/life balance, and excellent career and training opportunities for everyone who joins. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
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Work life balance
- Hybrid/flexible working arrangements
- 25 days annual leave, plus buy and sell
- Up to 16 days flexi leave accrual
- Half day Fridays
- Reservists in the Armed Forces receive special paid leave
Family & wellbeing
- Private medical health insurance & Employee Assistance Program
- All Staff Bonus
- Group Pension Plan of up to 7% employer contribution
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing Centre
- Sports & Social activities
- Employee Discounts portal - online and in-store discounts, travel savings
- Life assurance policy
- Publication and recruitment bonus rewards
- Development opportunities, including LinkedIn learning
Facilities & resources
- Electric vehicle charging points at all sites
- Private seated lunch areas
- Onsite bistro (Barnstaple office) and free hot and cold beverages
- Onsite showers and toiletries provision
- Free onsite parking
Join us and be part of something smaller - with 500 people in the UK and Canada - doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
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