Senior Manager, Bid & Proposal

Capture and win strategy

• Partner with Engineering to shape opportunities before formal solicitation.
• Develop the win strategy, value proposition, key messages, competitive differentiators, teaming approach, and customer-focused solution narrative.
• Coordinate customer questions and clarifications while protecting confidentiality and ensuring consistent communications.
• Support negotiation preparation and handover from the pursuit team to the delivery organization after contract award.

Proposal development and integration

• Translate solicitation requirements into a structured compliance matrix and proposal architecture.
• Coordinate technical, commercial, contractual, financial, security, export-control, industrial-benefit, and delivery inputs.
• Challenge contributors to ensure that the proposed solution is coherent, differentiated, evidence-based, and deliverable.
• Consolidate schedules, staffing plans, cost estimates, pricing assumptions, margins, cash profile, risks, and contingencies.
• Edit and improve proposal content for clarity, consistency, persuasiveness, and alignment with customer evaluation criteria.
• Control versions, approvals, document quality, production, portals, and on-time submission.

Compliance, risk, and continuous improvement

• Ensure adherence to customer instructions, internal approval authorities, contractual requirements, security rules, and confidentiality obligations.
• Coordinate reviews with Legal, Finance, Security, Quality, and other control functions.
• Facilitate post-submission debriefs and lessons learned; maintain reusable proposal content, templates, evidence, and best practices.
• Monitor bid performance indicators and provide concise reporting to Defense Products leadership.

Education and experience

• University degree in engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex bids and proposals involving multiple technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, public sectors, or another regulated environment is strongly preferred.
• Experience with product, system, or solution-based offers involving hardware, software, integration, services, and through-life support is an asset.

Core capabilities

• Strong command of bid governance, proposal planning, compliance management, and executive review processes.
• Ability to synthesize complex technical and commercial information into compelling customer-facing content.
• Sound financial and commercial judgment, including cost, price, margin, risk, and contractual considerations.
• Excellent organization, prioritization, attention to detail, and ability to perform under fixed deadlines.
• Confident facilitation and stakeholder management across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both French and English.

Please note that only selected candidates and Permanent Residents/Canadian Citizens will be contacted.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

CS Group Canada values ​​diversity in the workplace and encourages women, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, aboriginal people, and people with disabilities to apply.

Benefits:

• Hybrid Work
• Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance
• Access to a telemedicine service
• RRSP program
• Personal and sick days
• Recreation room with pool table and foosball table

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.