Bid Manager

Kolar

On-site

About the Business:

Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL) is a greenfield venture of the Tata Group with expertise in manufacturing precision components.

Tata Electronics (a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd.) is building India’s first AI-enabled state-of-the-art Semiconductor Foundry. This facility will produce chips for applications such as power management ICs, display drivers, microcontrollers (MCUs), and high-performance computing logic, addressing the growing demand across automotive, computing and data storage, wireless communications, and artificial intelligence markets.

Tata Electronics is a subsidiary of the Tata Group, which operates in more than 100 countries across six continents, with the mission to improve the quality of life of the communities it serves globally through long-term stakeholder value creation based on leadership with trust.

Summary

The Technical Bid Manager is the Bid Management subject-matter expert within the EMS core bid team, responsible for converting customer RFQs into compliant, costed, and executable solutions. The role owns end-to-end bid governance, including RFQ intake, requirements traceability, compliance management, proposal development, review governance, pricing approvals, and final bid submission. Working closely with customers, engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, and supplier teams, the Technical Bid Manager ensures all proposal commitments are technically feasible, commercially viable, and ready for successful transition into NPI and execution. The position requires solid leadership, structured problem-solving, commercial awareness, customer-facing communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent bids while driving decision-making through evidence-based technical and commercial recommendations.

Responsibilities

- Own end-to-end technical bid governance,



ensuring bid readiness from RFQ receipt through final submission and management approval.
- Lead RFQ decomposition, requirements analysis, compliance matrix development, and requirements traceability to ensure customer requirements are fully captured and addressed.
- Establish proposal architecture, bid strategy, solution storytelling, and executive-level presentations to communicate compelling customer solutions.
- Drive go/no-go decisions, pricing gate reviews, approval milestones, and bid governance reviews, ensuring risks, assumptions, and deviations are visible to decision-makers.
- Manage proposal review cycles, including Red Team and Gold Team reviews, and ensure timely closure of all review actions.
- Coordinate and prioritize resources across multiple concurrent bid opportunities while maintaining bid quality and submission timelines.
- Review customer RFQs, drawings, specifications, BOMs, standards, and technical data packages to identify gaps, risks, assumptions, and clarification needs.
- Develop resource plans, cycle-time estimates, equipment and tooling requirements, NRE, capital expenditure estimates, implementation schedules, and milestone plans.
- Lead integrated planning activities, RAID management, change control processes, and configuration governance throughout the bid lifecycle.
- Ensure alignment and consistency across engineering, manufacturing, process, test, quality, automation, supply chain, sourcing, and finance inputs.
- Support supplier evaluations, quotation reviews, make-versus-buy analyses,



and recommendation development based on technical and commercial considerations.
- Facilitate customer clarification meetings, supplier reviews, equipment trials, workshops, and program reviews as required.
- Define acceptance criteria, validation approaches, handover requirements, and key deliverables to support transition into NPI and program execution.

Technical Expertise

- Expertise in RFQ decomposition, bid governance, requirements traceability, compliance management, and proposal development.
- Strong knowledge of technical bid management methodologies, gated review processes, and proposal lifecycle management.
- Proficiency in developing compliance matrices, risk registers, action trackers, requirements traceability registers, and governance documentation.
- Experience creating technical proposals, executive presentations, customer-facing solution narratives, and management approval packages.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to evaluate cost, schedule, risk, contract deliverables, and business impacts.
- Knowledge of manufacturing industrialization, NPI processes, EMS operations, process engineering, quality systems, test strategies, and supply chain considerations.
- Ability to develop resource loading models, cycle-time calculations, capacity assessments, equipment requirements, tooling estimates, implementation schedules, and capital investment evaluations.
- Experience with ERP, PLM, document management repositories, BOM management systems, and controlled content environments.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project, and equivalent planning and project management tools.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent bids, work under fixed deadlines, and maintain high levels of accuracy and attention to detail.
- B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics, ECE, Industrial or a related engineering discipline. PMP and/or MBA is preferred.
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