Bid Manager

Aim high, go beyond!

At Open Cosmos we are solving the world’s biggest challenges from space, providing businesses, governments and researchers access to more readily available information than ever before - ready for the challenge?

Then read on...

Working in our Chief Revenue Office (CRO)

Our CRO division drives the commercial growth of Open Cosmos.

The team works across business development, marketing, and customer success to connect with partners worldwide, understand their needs, and turn opportunities into space missions.

Their work expands our reach and ensures we deliver meaningful impact for customers and end users.

The Growth team acts as the powerhouse of the company, ensuring the immediate needs of the customers are swiftly met and the future ones are translated into a product roadmap and deliverable projects.

Each member of the team combines a mix of programmatic, system engineering, and commercial skills with specific strengths.

What will you be doing?

As Bid Manager, you’ll play a key role in ensuring that Open Cosmos’s future mission opportunities are properly addressed through effective coordination, collaboration, and delivery.

You’ll work closely with our Mission Concept Engineers and Business Development (BD) teams to manage complex proposals, while also supporting team reporting, workload assessment, forecasting, and opportunity pipeline analytics.

will have two major functions: proposal management and bid operations.

Coordinate the full proposal process from go/no-go through submission — ensuring quality, compliance, and on-time delivery

Set up proposal templates and manage updates to shared documentation (company profiles, WPDs, CVs, and literature)

Lead large and complex bids in collaboration with Mission Concept Engineers (MCE) and internal stakeholders across engineering, finance, and commercial teams

Liaise with external partners and suppliers to coordinate joint proposals and consortium responses