Between 1996 and 1999, he was the Economic Advisor to the Turkish Embassy in the Republic of Macedonia. In 2003, he became the interim Manager of the Incentives and Implementation Department of the Treasury Undersecretariat, only to be fully confirmed in 2007. Between 2010 and 2014, Bilgin was the deputy Undersecretary to the Treasury and became the Undersecretary to the Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication after the retirement of his predecessor, Habip Soluk.[1]