Commercial Proposal Manager

Working within the Commercial function, you will play a pivotal role in gathering critical information and crafting winning proposals and contracts across complex, international projects. The role demands strategic-thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and expertise in managing multi-million pound/dollar opportunities and ensuring all details align with company objectives and client expectations.

• Proposal generation and execution – Lead the end-to-end process of writing, preparing and submitting bids and proposals and ensure technical and complex information is accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Stakeholder Engagement/Management – Build and nurture positive relationships with key stakeholders and communicate effectively with internal teams including, R&D, Engineering, Product, Legal, Commercial and Marketing, to align proposal goals.
• Project Management & Coordination – Manage multiple large-scale, multi-year and high value contracts and proposals simultaneously, and ensuring proposals are submitted on-time and accurate.
• Regulatory Compliance – Leverage knowledge of contract law and commercial agreements to manage and adhere to international regulations and compliance standards ensuring risk mitigation and accuracy.
• Analysis and problem-solving – Apply analytical skills to assess specifications, contracts, business data and market analysis, ensuring compliant, high-impact proposals. Identify and solve challenges quickly, often translating complex engineering and systems information into client-friendly language.

What you will need

• Proven experience within proposal writing for large-scale and high value projects
• Previous experience working within marine or engineering related sectors is highly advantageous
• Sound understanding of international contract management and cross-jurisdictional compliance
• Degree qualified (Bachelors) within relevant/suitable field relating to contract management/law
• Sound commercial acumen with a clear understanding of business strategies, pricing models and commercial risk management
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement/collaboration skills and experience
• Structured thinker, problem solver and an excellent commercial acumen for business strategy

What’s in it for you

Salary – Highly competitive

Bonus – Performance related bonus scheme

Annual Leave – 25 days, plus statutory holidays

Private Healthcare – Able to add family members at an extra cost

Lunch – Nutritious meals provided every day

Cycle scheme – Redeemable for bikes and related equipment

Social events – Monthly & quarterly social events

Who are we 

DEEP is accelerating deep sea exploration and preservation through the development of new technologies which enable humans to operate for longer periods of time and radically advance how humankind can access, explore and inhabit underwater environments.  DEEP completely transforms what we are capable of underwater – and will increase our understanding of life on this planet!

Our planet’s oceans hold answers to some of the most significant challenges facing humanity today, and yet they are almost completely unknown and unexplored. At DEEP, our mission is to radically open up access to the oceans through pioneering new technologies. These will empower scientists and researchers to fully understand the impact of our current way of life on the oceans and find new ways for us to protect our seas, their inhabitants and ourselves.

Working at DEEP

We are an expert team of highly experienced engineers, operations, and safety experts, with a funding model that allows us the freedom to think long term and pursue our mission without traditional restraints. We want to drive progress at the forefront of deep-sea innovation and discovery to become stewards of the oceans and reshape our relationship with our planet.

As an organization with multi-generational objectives and revolutionising humankinds' relationship with the ocean the values we work to each day are critical:

Be Curious – Make a better way, and ask why not? Answers are easy, questions are hard – Find original questions and be a curiosity catalyst!

Be Exceptional – It will take the most intelligent, talented and creative people on the planet working together to achieve the vision. Get it done, be relentless in your pursuit of excellence and demand excellence from everyone.

Be Fearless – No one has done this before! Impossible things must be done the first time. We are the team and going first!

Be Good – Cultivate passion and thrive together. Be safe, we take intelligent risks, but we will never compromise on the safety of our team – ever!

At DEEP, we celebrate and embrace diversity and inclusion and strongly believe that the best innovations come from diverse perspectives. We invite applicants from all backgrounds to join us in creating technology that makes a meaningful impact on humanity, our oceans and planet.