Alta Ares

Bid & Project Manager – EU & NATO (H/F)

Paris. Posted 24 days ago

The role

The Bid & Project Manager turns opportunities into compliant offers and manages their delivery. You will run several bids and projects at once, including NATO bids, EU grant proposals, and RFIs.

What you will do

  • Screen and qualify opportunities with the sales director
  • Prepare bid/no-bid decisions with risks, resources, and price
  • Break tenders down into compliance matrices, bid plans, and owners
  • Write and assemble management, technical, and compliance volumes
  • Organise review gates and prepare final price reviews
  • Submit complete, compliant, and on-time offers
  • Run clarification rounds and support negotiations
  • Master NSPA and NCIA procedures
  • Run EU grant proposals including consortium building and lump-sum budgets
  • Turn awards into projects including kick-off, planning, and budget control

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years in bid, proposal or project management in defence, aerospace or security
  • Proven record of compliant, on-time submissions to NATO agencies, EU programmes or European ministries of defence
  • At least one defence contract delivered from award to acceptance
  • Professional English, written and spoken (C1)

Nice to have

  • Scale-up or lean-team experience
  • Prime experience
  • APMP, Shipley, PMP, PRINCE2 or IPMA certification
  • Experience on a European Defence Fund or EDIP consortium, or with NSPA/NCIA procurement
  • A background in a NATO agency, the EDA or a ministry of defence, or military service (officer or NCO)
  • Knowledge of C-UAS, air defence, ISR or drones
  • Export-control experience (French export licensing, EU dual-use rules)
  • French
  • Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian or Ukrainian

Before you apply

  • Requires applying for a NATO personnel security clearance
  • Open to nationals of EU Member States that are also NATO members
  • Hire is subject to the clearance procedure

About the company

Alta Ares is an air defense Neoprime that builds AI-guided interceptors to counter drones and cruise missiles. Founded in 2024, the company has 90 people and serves NATO-aligned militaries and defense institutions.