Assistant Bid Manager

AtkinsRéalis; Dubai; On-site; AED 268,000 - 424,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Life insurance

Medical insurance

Annual leave balance

Company gratuity scheme

Discretionary bonus program

Annual flight contribution

Housing allowance

Employee Wellbeing Program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis Middle East is seeking an Assistant Bid Manager in Dubai to drive bid capture, coordination, and governance. You will collaborate with sales leaders and technical teams to develop robust commercial offers and ensure timely, compliant submissions.

The role requires 3+ years in bids/proposals, experience in the Middle East design consultancy sector, and a degree or equivalent qualification. A structured, assertive, and flexible approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in bids and proposals roles.
• Experience in Middle East design consultancy sector is preferred.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Lead the bid process from capture to project appointment.
• Coordinate with technical disciplines to develop robust commercial offers.
• Facilitate governance, ensure timely submission, and maintain quality standards.
• Manage bid documents and ensure compliance with deadlines.
• Support interview/presentation development with coaching input.

Skills

Bid management

Leadership

Time management

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Organizational skills

Education

Degree or professional qualification in design/construction or business/marketing

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Dynamics CRM

Adobe Acrobat

InDesign

Job description

Job Description

Overview

We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Bid Manager to join the AtkinsRéalis Middle East Sales & Growth Team within the Buildings & Places market. The Assistant Bid Manager will work with the Sales & Growth Bid Managers Market Leads and Technical Disciplines to undertake a broad range of enabling and coordination activities. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience across the full breadth of the AtkinsRéalis sales and growth activities.

Your role

• Facilitates capture planning / win strategy planning sessions to achieve approvals in-line with submission deadlines
• Executes and drives corporate governance processes systems and procedures
• Ensures the effective use of the process and tools for all bids to maximize the opportunity of winning
• Liaises with technical teams to ensure a robust response to the technical requirements is achieved
• Works with the leadership and technical teams to ensure a robust commercial offering is developed
• Ensures a winning compliant error free document arrives with the client in the correct format meeting the deadline
• Provides organization and structure for bid teams to ensure effective and efficient work and use of time
• Manages the production of all bid documents ensuring they meet required quality standards and time deadlines
• Understanding of commercials required
• Facilitates and enables the interview/presentation development ensuring the team has the correct level of creative input and coaching support to enable a winning approach
• Enacts change in the organization by driving improvements and doing things differently

About you

The successful candidate will:

• Lead the bid process from capture stage to project appointment
• Have experience in the Middle East Design Consultancy Sector
• Be assertive enthusiastic and highly organized methodical and flexible
• Possess strong people leadership skills
• Have confidence to approach colleagues and stakeholders all levels to progress activities and resolve issues
• Work under time pressure and deadlines
• Be educated to Degree level or equivalent Professional qualifications preferably in design / construction related field or business / marketing
• Have a minimum of 3 years working in a bids and proposals position
• Ideally have experience of working in a professional services environment and experience in the design and engineering industry
• Possess Advanced skills in Word Excel PowerPoint Dynamics CRM and Adobe Acrobat InDesign and

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance legal matters family care personal health fitness and nutrition.

About AtkinsRéalis

Were AtkinsRéalis a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people data and technology to transform the worlds infrastructure and energy systems. Together with our industry partners and clients and our global team of consultants designers engineers and project managers we can change the world. Were committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender ethnic or national origin sexual identity and orientation age religion or disability but enriches itself through these differences.

Required Experience

Manager