Communications Electronic Warfare Solutions Bid Manager - m/f (M/F)

Location: Gennevilliers, France

Let's build a future of trust together Thales is a world leader in high technology, specializing in three business sectors: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4.5 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 85,000 employees in 65 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits - Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition

• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skill development: training paths, academies, and internal communities

• An inclusive, caring environment that respects employee work-life balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life: The Gennevilliers Campus is the heart of design, development, and support activities for major defense systems: radiocommunications, resilient networks and infrastructure systems, satellite communications, collaborative combat, and cybersecurity. Located north of Paris, it is easily accessible by public transport.

You will join the Offers and Demonstrations Department of the RCP domain, which brings together about fifty employees, including 35 bid managers. It is responsible for managing offers for France and Export clients on behalf of the 3 sectors (Land, Air, and Sea). It has indoor and outdoor demonstration capabilities for our solutions. Every week, about ten offers are prepared, for an annual order intake amount of nearly more than 900 MEUR in 2025.

The Communications Electronic Warfare (EWR) Sector manages projects and developments related to Electronic Warfare equipment and systems for all users, both for domestic and Export clients. This activity is growing rapidly, driven by operational needs for detection, localization, decoding, and jamming solutions for radiocommunications means. As a Bid Manager for this sector, you will:

• Contribute to the definition of the offer strategy by providing an understanding of customer needs and the competitive context,
• Develop a competitive offer, drawing on technical teams,

• Lead reviews, prepare the technical proposal and associated quotes,
• Support the sales forces in promoting our solution, negotiating contractual clauses with our clients, and then ensuring the smooth transition of the offer to the project teams once concluded,

• Be responsible for compliance with product policy and the proposal expense budget.

Travel within France and abroad is to be expected.

Your profile - With an Engineering degree/Master's degree or equivalent, do you have at least 5 years of experience in pre-sales or bidding within the defense systems field?

• Have you already worked on complex setups (technical and organizational content), with different industrial partners, and successfully participated in responses to calls for tenders?
• Do you master the QDV quoting tool?

• Are you comfortable in high-technology environments and ready to train on our technical products and solutions?
• Do you have a good knowledge of the telecommunications field (radio technology, secure connectivity, Information System)?

• Proficiency in English is required.
• Do your peers recognize your creativity, dynamism, listening skills, negotiation experience, and sense of customer service?