Senior Bid Coordinator

  • Full-time
  • Employment status: Full-Time

Company Description

With eight design studios worldwide, chances are you've encountered our work. We specialise in architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and urban design. Our diverse, multi-disciplinary team brings together a wealth of skills and perspectives that unlock the economic, social, and cultural potential of projects.

Across our studios we connect insight and creativity, creating a better future by designing the world’s best places – places people love, is what drives us.

At Hassell, we're dedicated to sustainability and regenerative design. Our designers play a pivotal role in shaping a better future for communities and our planet. Join us in making a lasting impact.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Bid Coordinator to join our Global Bid Team in the Sydney studio. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a creative environment, drives best-practice bid processes, and is passionate about delivering high-quality, distinctive proposals.

As a key member of our Business Development team, you’ll manage the end-to-end bid process—coordinating major pursuits, preparing tailored submissions, and following up on outcomes. You’ll collaborate with Principals, senior leaders, and technical experts to produce standout, client-focused proposals in Adobe InDesign, ensuring brand consistency and design excellence throughout.

You will proactively engage with Principals and work with the BD team, coordinating pipeline of major pursuits in Sydney through to preparing submissions and following up on debriefs.

This role offers exposure to high-profile projects and career growth opportunities across business development, strategy, and design communications.

What you’ll do:

  • Collaborate with Leaders to coordinate bid submissions, prioritising tasks and managing deadlines.
  • Oversee and participate in the end-to-end bid coordination process; work across multiple bids within the studio and organisation, demonstrating expertise in managing complex multidisciplinary bids.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather, refine, and tailor content.
  • Design professional, visually engaging documents using Adobe InDesign.
  • Review and refine submissions to ensure quality, accuracy, and compliance.
  • Contribute to the wider Business Development function in the studio, including marketing collateral and client engagement.
  • Continuously improve processes for greater efficiency and better outcomes.
  • Drive a culture of design excellence that sets Hassell apart, ensuring bids showcase distinctive and innovative solutions, collaborating with the Marketing Comms team to enhance design quality.
  • Elevate bid quality across Hassell by sharing best practices with studios worldwide.

Qualifications

  • 5 + years experience in bid coordination, marketing or similar role
  • Exceptional Adobe Suite skills (particularly InDesign)
  • Demonstrated ability to execute design ideas using various digital technologies at a high expertise level
  • Experience producing high-quality submissions
  • Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deadlines effectively
  • Understanding of branding guidelines tailored to client needs
  • High accuracy level with attention to detail
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
  • Qualification in Graphic Design (desirable

Additional Information

Why Hassell?

Our team enjoys a wide range of benefits to support their development and well-being:

  • 16 weeks paid parental leave for both primary and secondary carers. 
  • A progressive flexible work policy that allows hybrid work, location flexibility and work pattern flexibility
  • Inter-studio transfer opportunities 
  • Wellbeing benefits 
  • Development and training opportunities, including access to online training programs and our People Coach program. 
  • Study assistance.

Hassell is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity. We demonstrate our commitment to reconciliation and cultural safety by fostering inclusive environments that value the cultural identities, perspectives, and practices of all individuals. We prioritise ensuring that everyone feels safe, included, and respected.

Our local studios serve as primary hubs for in-person connection and collaboration, and we offer flexible and hybrid work arrangements. Hassell encourages sustainable work hours and actively supports the holistic health and well-being of our people.

Our Sydney studio is located on Gadigal Country. We acknowledge and respect the Gadigal people as the original Custodians of the land upon which we work. We honour their Elders, past and present, whose knowledge and wisdom has, and will, ensure the continuation of cultures and traditional practices.

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