Bid Manager
- Full-time
- Department: Business support
Company Description
Who is Turner & Townsend?
All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.
Our purpose:
Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.
The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years.
Our values:
Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.
Stronger together: We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone.
Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice
Job Description
Turner & Townsend Asia has seen significant growth over the past 5 years and has ambitious plans to continue growing and achieving outcomes for our clients. We are seeking an experienced bid and business development professional who is experienced managing pre-bid positioning activities in addition to end-to-end bid management and delivery (up to multi-million-dollar contracts).
Key responsibilities include:
- Analyse, coordinate, write and develop EOI/PQQ/RFT/RFP response's incorporating the requirements of client specifications, within strict timescales
- Facilitate pursuit planning and bid kick off meetings including win theme development, and capturing bid feedback/lessons learnt.
- Work with bid team to help develop and communicate localized win themes, strategies and creative approaches. Ensure key requirements is captured within the bid.
- Contribute to bid pipeline visibility by engaging sectors teams/regional teams to understand pipeline, whilst maintaining bid logs.
- 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.
- Project manage 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
- Engage with the various support functions of the bid process from technical, IT, finance and HR.
- Assist in the writing of executive summaries, key methodologies, CVs and project case studies
- Quality assure and provide peer review function of another writer's work. Ensure bid is submitted for review for internal quality assurance and governance processes
- Review and amend draft bid considering feedback from Peers, Directors and Bid Manager.
- Following submission of bid, extract key information from tender and manage information in-line with information management processes and following internal feedback analysis processes
- Provide best practice training on best practice bid process, structure and quality
- Support the preparation of other deliverables related to the opportunity such as interview presentations and follow-up requests.
- Support Business Development with any other activity as required
Qualifications
- Relevant degree in Business, Marketing, English or engineering. Association of Proposal Management Professional accreditation advantageous
- 7 years' experience of bid management and writing successful bid submissions
- Proof reading skills with a keen eye for accuracy and detail, including ensuring responses adhere to word/page limits
- Organizational skills, with the ability to priorities and meet deadlines while maintaining a high standard of quality
- Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing and ability to foster credible collaborative relationships
- 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
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