About the Role
Alstom is seeking a Bid Management Team Leader to lead and develop a high-performing team of Bid Managers in North Sydney. This role involves orchestrating complex tenders, embedding best practices, and utilizing digital tools to enhance competitive advantage and drive winning submissions across the ANZ portfolio. You will collaborate with various stakeholders to deliver compelling, compliant, and commercially sound bids, championing best practices and improving bid accuracy and win probability.
Responsibilities
- Lead the bid lifecycle for medium and high-criticality tenders, from opportunity identification through submission and post-bid review.
- Mentor and develop talent, coaching Bid Managers and Senior Bid Managers, assessing skills, and building development plans.
- Drive planning discipline, reinforcing Work Package Reviews, documenting assumptions early, and ensuring on-time, compliant delivery.
- Collaborate across functions, aligning Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing and global units to deliver fully integrated solutions.
- Innovate with digital tools, implementing best practice and leveraging AI-driven analytics to improve speed and quality of submissions.
- Embed continuous improvement, leading Win-Loss Analysis (REX), building a reusable bid library, and standardising ANZ-specific checklists.
Requirements
- Expertise in Project or Bid Management, with strong capability across costing, planning and risk management.
- Strong leadership and commercial acumen, with a proven ability to manage teams under pressure.
- Sound knowledge of the financial, contractual and legal frameworks that shape bids.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with a collaborative and decisive mindset.
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant field.
Skills
- Project Management
- Bid Management
- Costing
- Planning
- Risk Management
- Leadership
- Commercial Acumen
- Team Management
- Financial Frameworks
- Contractual Frameworks
- Legal Frameworks
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Digital Tools
- AI-driven analytics
Location
- North Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Team Leader
Education Level
- Tertiary qualification
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Additional leave days
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Novated leasing schemes
- Comprehensive development programs
- Award-winning learning opportunities
- Stability, challenges, and a long-term career path
- Opportunities for growth across a global industry leader
- Comprehensive social coverage (life, salary continuance, medical)
About the Company
- At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry.
- Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
Equal Opportunity
- As a global business, we're an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 70+ countries we operate in.
- We're committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.
- An agile, inclusive and responsible culture is the foundation of our company where diverse people are offered excellent opportunities to grow, learn and advance in their careers.
- We are committed to encouraging our employees to reach their full potential, while valuing and respecting them as individuals.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourage women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, people with disability and other minority groups to apply.
- We recognise that embracing flexibility & inclusivity is the 21st century way of working.
- Please speak with us about your individual needs or if any workplace adjustments are required.
- If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process please email: hr.accessibility@alstomgroup.com.
- For internal applicants, please ensure you confirm your eligibility to apply with your Supervisor and relevant Human Resources representative prior to submitting an application.
- As part of the application process, you will be required to undergo pre-employment reference and medical checks, including drug and alcohol testing.
