Job Title: Bid Solutions Analyst
Location: Warminster, Wiltshire or Telford, Shropshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72441
Shape operational solutions that win and deliver complex defence bids
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. We’re looking for Bid Solutions Analysts to join our DSG Land business, supporting Through Life Equipment Support (TLES) and major bid activity across the organisation.
This is a pivotal role at the intersection of operations, commercial strategy, and bid delivery. You’ll help translate customer requirements into robust, deliverable solutions that balance cost, risk, capability, and operational reality.
The role
Working closely with subject‑matter experts across engineering, procurement, commercial, and delivery teams, you’ll shape operational responses to customer change requests and commercial enquiries. You’ll assess feasibility, define solution options, and ensure proposals are aligned with both customer needs and business strategy.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Develop and shape operational solutions to support bids, change requests, and commercial opportunities
- Engage SMEs to assess requirements across people, skills, capacity, cost, and risk
- Define solution options and clearly articulate assumptions, constraints, and impacts
- Support bid teams by providing robust operational input aligned to commercial strategy
- Identify risks and opportunities, ensuring solutions are deliverable and sustainable.
This is a full‑time, permanent role with hybrid working (typically 3 days per week onsite). The role can be based in Warminster (preferred) or Donnington.
Essential experience of the Bid Solutions Analyst:
- Experience working in bid, commercial, financial, or solution‑shaping roles within a regulated environment
- Strong organisational and coordination skills with a structured, analytical mindset
- Confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels and pulling together complex inputs
- Ability to balance operational reality with commercial.
Qualifications for the Bid Solutions Analyst:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 11/06/2026
