Bid Specialist

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

Responsibilities

• Reviewing RFPs and advising bid lead on requirements that impact Bid/No Bid decision
• Develop the bid plan including developing win themes with bid lead
• Facilitate bid Kick Off meetings with bid team and technical leads
• Proactively manage the end-to-end bid and review process while ensuring all contributors understand expectations for content and timelines
• Incorporate local knowledge, evidence/research and adhere to writing style/branding
• Ensure submissions are targeted to their audience, consisting of an evidence base and innovative approach and strategy, as advised by experts across the organisation and best practice
• Customize pen profiles and CV content to better position our proposed team aligned to bid specifics
• Proofing and editing bid response documents, ensuring the submitted information demonstrates a compelling proposition that meets the client’s needs
• Make sure governance process is followed, including Risk Management process and fee sign off/approvals
• Review and amend draft bid considering feedback from peers and Directors
• Ensure bids are fully compliant to clients’ exact requirements by effectively reviewing bid documents as well as showcasing our abilities and experience.
• Create presentations for post-tender interviews, using combination of bid submission content and tailored content as required
• Support wider team in pipeline management activities and contribute to board reporting on pipeline, conversion, and lessons learnt
• Following submission of bid, extract key information from tender to improve best practice collateral and marketing usage
  
  

Key Skills And Behaviors

• Proactive, clear and professional communication with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to contribute to bid/pursuit strategy and influence senior technical and commercial leaders including challenging/questioning thinking or strategy when necessary to add value to the process
• Experience in taking responsibility for managing their work and working with minimal supervision to achieve the outcomes required for the team
• Critical thinking skills to consistently develop, manage and deliver high quality bids and content on time
• Strong writing ability in English including:
• Critically assessing existing content and editing to be more concise and persuasive, harmonizing tone of voice and ensuring consistency of language and terminology
• Writing original non-technical content for Executive Summaries and other sections where needed
• Proof reading skills with a keen eye for accuracy and detail
• Time management – able to work on multiple submissions simultaneously
  
  

Location

• The post holder will be based in our office in Riyadh
  
  

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in an Engineering discipline or Business, Marketing, English (list not exhaustive)
• Expertise in MS Office suite, skilled in Microsoft PowerPoint (required) and a design-based software such as InDesign (preferred)
• APMP Foundation level certification is advantageous but not essential
  
  

Additional Information

• Key Behaviors:
• Proactive problem-solving and issue resolution.
• Strong client relationship management and communication skills.
• Clear determination to achieve set goals and resilience in the face of challenges.
• Ability to work collaboratively within diverse and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Effective decision-making using a mix of analysis, intuition, and judgment.
• Benefits:
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Exposure to a wide range of challenging projects.
  
  

Turner & Townsend is a global management consultancy and professional services firm focusing on the construction and asset management sectors. We work with the most prominent clients on the largest projects and asset bases across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources. Our focus is on programme and project management, cost and commercial management and asset management strategy.

We deliver projects on time and to budget, and to optimise the whole life value of assets on behalf of our clients. We work on projects such as HS2, The Shard, Battersea Power Station, Hinkley Point, Changi Airport, and clients such as Shell, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Nissan and Citibank.

The products we are building are cutting edge in our industry, allowing us to deliver these projects better than our competitors.

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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.