Proposal Manager for Aerostructures in Grenaa, Denmark

Are you passionated about being part of providing high-tech products to international customers? And would you like to play a significant part in securing lives through advanced technology?

For our Aerostructures business area we are looking for an ambitious and competent proposal manager. The Aerostructures business area in Grenaa manufactures advanced metallic and composite structural aerospace components and our products are supplied to international customers.

Become a core player in achieving our growth aspirations
As our new Proposal Manager, you will be part of the Business Development function within the Aerostructures business area. Working in the Business Development team you will be surrounded by highly skilled and experienced colleagues, and you will quickly feel the drive and motivation that shapes our team. The working environment is dynamic and characterized by multiple parallel tasks and often short deadlines. You will work across our global sales organization, become a core member of our team and a core player in achieving our growth aspirations in Aerostructures.

In close collaboration with colleagues from multiple areas in our agile organization you will be an instrumental player in our proposal production efforts.

More specifically, your responsibilities will cover:

• Forecasting and planning of proposal activities
• Support BD sales lead in proposal production
• Ensure proposal stakeholders are continuously consulted during proposal production
• Prepare and conduct management reviews
• Assist BD sales lead in meetings and negotiations with customer
• Optimize and improve proposal procedures and tools
• Automation of repetitive tasks to increase operational efficiency and response times

The position is based in our Grenaa facility. You can expect a limited amount of international travel activity.

What’s our company like?
We are an international company representing world class expertise, delivering complex and high-tech products. We value our colleagues and our meaningful contributions to securing people through advanced technology.

During your onboarding in Terma you can expect a thorough introduction and training in our systems and processes, as well as a strong focus on teaching you useful new competences and further strengthening current ones, both professionally and personally.

Our company culture is autonomous and engaging, and we acknowledge the importance of flexibility in a great working environment. On our different locations, we offer various social activities to bring all of our colleagues together.

How to succeed in this position?
As our new proposal manager your qualifications should cover:

• You can work independently and with a high level of individual initiative and personal drive
• You have excellent stakeholder management skills
• You are highly structured and process oriented and understand the necessity of coordination and follow-up
• You have a strong end to end commercial understanding to help build best possible proposal for both Terma and customer
• Your IT-skills are above average. Advanced MS Excel skills is a must and experience with Power BI and Python is an advantage
• Fluent in English (Orally/Written).

Moreover, we are looking for a candidate with a good technical understanding and your educational background can be either in Engineering or Finance.

As a person you are curious, persistent and willing to learn. At the same time, detail-orientation is required together with a good eye for the overall goal. Experience from a similar job function and/or other relevant experience working with a full value chain in an international environment is preferred, but not required.

Any unanswered questions?
Feel free to contact Brian Sørensen, Vice President Aerostructures ([email protected]) in case of any further questions regarding this position.

We look forward to receiving your application and CV. To ensure that your application will reach us and is properly processed, we only accept applications via www.Terma.com.

Bear in mind that candidates must be able to obtain a security clearance by the Danish Defence Intelligence Service. This entails that candidates, as a minimum, have stayed within NATO/EU for the last 7 years only interrupted by short stays abroad.

The high-tech and innovative Terma Group develops products and systems for defense, non-defense and security applications, including command and control systems, radar systems, self-protection systems for aircraft and vessels, space technology, and aerostructures for the aircraft industry.

Headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, Terma has subsidiaries and operations across Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia Pacific as well as a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, Terma Inc., with offices in Washington D.C., Georgia and Texas.