Technical Tender Specialist Defence

As a Technical Tender Specialist Defence, you play a key role in shaping high‑quality bids and project preparations for complex, high‑risk environments. You act as the connecting link between engineering, commercial teams and corporate disciplines, ensuring that tenders and project strategies are robust, compliant and well‑founded.

You standardise and improve tender methodologies, tools and templates, and actively support strategic decision‑making in a governance‑driven context.

Your Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead the preparation of defence‑related bids and project strategies, including project structuring, pricing logic and detailed cost estimates.
• Ensure consistent calculation methods, transparent assumptions and strict compliance with internal sales processes, governance frameworks and defence‑specific requirements.
• Coordinate closely with engineering, design, estimation and commercial teams, as well as corporate functions such as Legal, Finance, Compliance, Tax and Insurance.
• Review tender documentation, technical submissions and contractual conditions to assess risks, obligations and completeness.
• Integrate multidisciplinary input into coherent proposals, decision documents and risk assessments suitable for senior management and external stakeholders.
• Identify, analyse and manage project risks and opportunities, ensuring mitigation measures are clearly documented and actively monitored.
• Support project teams during execution by reviewing major changes, claims, contractual clarifications and commercial impacts.
• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve tender templates, workflows and best practices in a controlled environment.
• Maintain accurate sales forecasts, monitor stage‑gate progress and provide reliable pipeline insights to support informed decision‑making.

Your Profile

You bring:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Project Management or a related technical field.
• Additional certification in project management, commercial management or contract management is an advantage.
• Proven experience in commercial, tendering or project preparation roles within defence, offshore, construction, mining or capital equipment environments.
• Hands‑on experience in the execution of complex capital equipment or system‑based projects.
• Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills, particularly with engineering, legal, finance and risk stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of project structuring, estimation, and contractual and commercial principles.
• The ability to align stakeholders, challenge assumptions and perform under tender pressure and strict deadlines.
• A strong affinity with technical tendering in regulated, high‑complexity environments.
• A structured, analytical and detail‑oriented working style, with a high standard for documentation and process discipline.

For this position, candidates must be eligible to obtain a security clearance (Certificate of No Objection). This security screening is part of the selection process.

Royal IHC offers you:

• Plenty of time off: 40 vacation days for a full-time position, with the option to buy or sell additional leave.
• A profit-sharing scheme that lets you share in Royal IHC’s success.
• Flexible working: A home office allowance of €2.45 per day + a one-time payment of €750 to set up your workspace.
• Travel allowance of €0.21 per kilometer for the days you commute to the office.
• A solid pension plan through PME.
• Room to grow: Numerous internal career opportunities and a training budget + access to our IHC Academy to support your development.
• Health and energy: Unlimited access to our in-house gym (in exchange for the sustainable employability day).
• Royal IHC takes care of things you’d rather not worry about, but that are still important—such as disability insurance, partner pension, and the option to have additional healthcare costs reimbursed through our Social Fund.

Royal IHC is a leading supplier of maritime technology and expert craftsmanship, providing solutions for customers in the dredging, offshore, mining and defence industries.