Solution Lead
Role Overview
Shape winning bids and solutions and deliver for global customers across the opportunity lifecycle.
Combine ATM expertise, strategic insight, and commercial acumen to support growth in global markets.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role purpose
Shape winning bids and solutions and deliver for global customers across the opportunity lifecycle.
Combine ATM expertise, strategic insight, and commercial acumen to support growth in global markets.
Key accountabilities
- Lead development of competitive, deliverable technical and operational solutions and compelling customer value propositions.
- Translate customer needs into solutions aligned with company capabilities, commercial strategy, and risk appetite.
- Coordinate bid-team understanding of customer, P&L, and commercial requirements.
- Write or coordinate solution contributions to proposal documents.
- Collaborate with Sales, Bidding, and Delivery on persuasive proposals, technical responses, and solution architectures.
- Ensure process compliance; support delivery teams and contribute to or lead implementation where appropriate.
- Populate pricing models and identify financial and operational efficiencies over the contract lifecycle.
- Lead stakeholder engagement and build alliances across teams, regions, and customers.
Qualifications and attributes
- Bring deep ATM expertise in at least one area, such as ATC, safety, engineering, or analytics.
- Lead and motivate cross-disciplinary and virtual teams; prioritize and plan to meet tight bid deadlines.
- Balance customer needs and budgets with commercial objectives; bring strong commercial and financial awareness.
- Design new solutions or adapt existing ones when they do not meet customer needs.
- Write clearly in English for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Understand global ATM market trends, customer drivers, and emerging technologies, including digital towers, UTM, and sustainability initiatives.
- Have a track record of delivering high-quality solutions to time, cost, and quality expectations.
- Be proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; bring bidding, proposal-development, and pricing-strategy experience.
- Show cultural awareness and sensitivity to differing business practices, communication styles, and customer expectations.
Travel and time zones
- The role requires flexibility across time zones and international stakeholders.
- International travel is required as needed.
Hiring process
- Candidates invited to interview will complete a skills assessment.
- Employment is subject to UK Security Vetting and Clearance (SC), which must be maintained; international hires must provide address history, reference history, and a police clearance certificate.
About NATS
NATS is a private UK air navigation service provider delivering air traffic control and aviation technology services to airports, airlines and governments.
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