Project and Bid Manager

Apply Description Company Description Truvant is a global provider of scalable contract packaging, contract manufacturing, and supply chain solutions for many of the world’s leading food, consumer, household, and industrial brands. With 15 facilities worldwide and more than 5,600 team members, the company offers diverse opportunities for professional growth in a consistently expanding organization. Truvant promotes a personal and professional work environment with clear paths for advancement, hands-on training, and a strong focus on safety and health. Team members are encouraged to develop their careers while contributing to reliable, high-quality services for customers. Applicants seeking a role with long-term possibilities and growth potential will find Truvant an engaging place to build their future. Position Summary: The Project & Bid Manager leads the development, quotation, approval, and implementation of new contract manufacturing and packaging opportunities in the United States, while supporting growth with existing customers and collaboration across North America and Europe. This role converts customer requirements into practical, compliant, and profitable operating solutions by integrating commercial, technical, operational, financial, and project-management inputs. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Own the quotation process for new-business opportunities in the United States, ensuring inputs are complete, consistent, traceable, and ready for commercial and P&L review. Develop P&L-ready proposals supported by labor, space, resource, material, startup, investment, risk, pricing, margin, and payback assumptions. Translate customer requirements into executable process flows, operating concepts, layouts, capacity models, equipment and tooling scopes, technical requirements, and CAPEX estimates. Lead new-business projects involving new customers, items, machines, technologies, lines, operating models, or sites from approval through stable launch. Develop and manage project charters, scope, deliverables, budgets, milestones, critical paths, resource plans, governance cadence, implementation plans, risk logs, and stakeholder communications. Coordinate procurement, installation, commissioning, qualification or validation, trials, training, readiness reviews, production ramp-up, and controlled handoff to Operations. Lead or support customer discovery, technical reviews, solution workshops, plant tours, proposal presentations, and startup governance meetings. Partner with Sales/Business Development, Operations, Finance, Procurement, Quality, R&D/NPD, Planning, Engineering, IT, Supply Chain, customers, and suppliers. Ensure solutions and project execution meet applicable company, customer, quality, food-safety, food-defense, and regulatory requirements. Provide structured status reporting covering progress, costs, risks, decisions, actions, escalations, and outlook. Promote standardized RFQ, costing,…