Bid Manager
- Full-time
- Department: Business support
Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world's most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
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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Additional Information
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.
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