Are you interested in working on some of the world’s most exciting projects, with some of the world’s leading businesses?

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 118 offices and 47 countries worldwide.

At Turner & Townsend, we offer a wide variety of benefits to our staff to help them inside or outside of the work. We offer true work life balance, working from home arrangements, team events and much more. 

We are seeking an experienced Bid and Business Development professional who is motivated, organised and has previous knowledge working on proposals and bids. Role requirements include coordinating and supporting positioning and pursuit planning activities and undertaking a central role in the development of bids (up to multi-million-dollar contracts). The successful candidate will be a part of the Business Development function in Turner & Townsend Australia and New Zealand.

• Provide structured and proactive support to Directors and teams to prepare for future bids by equipping client teams to position, demonstrate value and understand future opportunities.
• Coordinate and support development of collateral to demonstrate value or support positioning activities
• Analyse, coordinate, write and develop comprehensive PQQ/RFT/RFP response’s incorporating the requirements of specifications, within strict timescales
• Support strategic pursuit planning and bid forums including win theme development, storyboarding and bid feedback/lessons learnt.
• Incorporate local knowledge, evidence/research and writing style/branding in bids to ensure the bid is targeted to defined audience
• Coordinate and incorporate input from bid partners, directors, technical experts and wider team as necessary, to ensure a consistent and coherent final bid against scoring criteria
• Provide structured format and text for others contributing to bid. Quality assure and provide peer review function of another writer’s work.
• Review and amend draft bids considering feedback from Peers, Directors and Bid Manager.
• Ensure bids are submitted for review for internal quality assurance and governance processes
• Work flexibly across the organisation to support Directors dependent on tender activity to ensure a unified and consistent approach to bids
• Following submission of bids, extract key information from tender and manage information in-line with information management processes and following internal feedback analysis processes
• Support best practice training on best practice bid process, structure and quality 
• Support Business Development with any other activity as required

• Based in Australia
• Experience of writing successful bid submissions
• Project Management or Bid Management previous work experience
• Strong MS Office Skills and IT Literacy
• Proof reading skills with a keen eye for accuracy and detail, including ensuring bid compliance
• Organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines while maintaining a high standard of quality
• Capacity to travel with occasional overnight stays
• Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing and ability to foster credible collaborative relationships
• Respond flexibly to the demands of the post
• Team player who is willing to adapt to changing priorities of the business
• Contribute openly to the team with innovations and ideas to ensure the success and development of the company
• Relevant degree in an Engineering discipline or Business, Marketing, English (list not exhaustive)
• Detailed knowledge and experience of the Real Estate/Infrastructure/Construction sector (an advantage but not essential)
• A confirmed working history that demonstrates excellent analytical, organisational and problem-solving abilities

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. 

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.