Growth & Proposals Manager (Infrastructure & Built Environment)

KBR; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR seeks a Growth & Proposals Manager for Infrastructure & Built Environment, based in Abu Dhabi/Dubai. The role leads end-to-end growth, pursuit planning, and high-quality proposal content across the region, coordinating across engineering, estimating, finance and legal teams.

The candidate translates market insights into win strategies, shapes executive summaries, and ensures compliant, compelling submissions while driving disciplined governance and knowledge capture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline.
• At least nine years of progressive experience in infrastructure business development, sales growth, proposals, estimating, or related field.
• Experience supporting or leading complex pursuits in infrastructure, built environment, advisory, or major capital projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end growth and pursuit activities for Infrastructure & Built Environment opportunities.
• Coordinate cross-functional contributors to deliver complete, accurate, timely submissions.
• Develop pursuit plans, schedules, governance milestones, and accountabilities.
• Translate customer priorities and market insight into differentiated win strategies and value propositions.
• Develop executive summaries and shape persuasive technical, management, and commercial content.
• Ensure proposal messaging is compliant, customer-focused and aligned with pursuit strategy.
• Support pricing, commercial, and governance throughout the pursuit lifecycle.

Skills

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder influence

Proposal development

Communication skills

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business engineering construction management marketing communications or a related discipline

Job description

Title:

Growth & Proposals Manager (Infrastructure & Built Environment)

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The KBR team of teams delivers future-forward science technology and engineering solutions and mission-critical services that help governments and companies around the world accomplish their most important objectives while also helping achieve their sustainability goals.

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies differentiated advisory services deep technical domain expertise energy transition solutions high-end design and engineering capabilities and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

KBR is looking for Growth & Proposals Manager (Infrastructure & Built Environment) to be based in Abu Dhabi / Dubai and should be Flexible to travel with the ability to support infrastructure and built environment pursuits across the region.

Position Summary

The Growth Sales Manager leads and coordinates end-to-end growth and pursuit activities for Infrastructure & Built Environment opportunities. The role converts customer market and competitor insight into clear win strategies compelling value propositions competitive commercial approaches and high-quality proposal content. Working across business development operations engineering estimating finance commercial legal and Growth Enablement the role brings together the right people information and decisions to improve pursuit quality win probability and profitable growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pursuit planning from qualification through submission clarification interview negotiation and handover.
• Facilitate pursuit kickoffs strategy sessions storyboard reviews color-team reviews and proposal workshops.
• Develop and maintain pursuit plans schedules governance milestones action logs and clear accountabilities.
• Coordinate cross-functional contributors and subject matter experts to deliver complete accurate and timely submissions.
• Identify delivery risks dependencies and resource constraints early and accelerate them with practical recommendations.
• Translate customer priorities and market insight into differentiated win strategies win themes value propositions and response strategies.
• Develop executive summaries and shape persuasive technical management and commercial content in partnership with subject matter experts.
• Ensure proposal messaging is consistent customer-focused evidence-based and aligned with the approved pursuit strategy.
• Maintain compliance with customer instructions evaluation criteria procurement requirements and internal governance standards.
• Support the preparation of customer presentations interview materials and executive briefing content.
• Maintain disciplined version control document management and knowledge capture in accordance with the knowledge management framework.

Market Intelligence & Growth Strategy

• Support opportunity identification qualification and bid/no-bid decision-making with clear fact-based analysis.
• Develop customer competitor and market intelligence to inform positioning and engagement strategies.
• Conduct competitive benchmarking and contribute to price-to-win analysis.
• Capture lessons learned maintain reusable pursuit intelligence and ensure relevant insights are applied to future opportunities.
• Recommend practical actions to strengthen pipeline quality competitive positioning and win rate.

Pricing & Commercial Coordination

• Lead development of pursuit pricing strategies in partnership with estimating operations finance and commercial teams.
• Coordinate technical commercial financial and contractual inputs to create a cohesive and competitive customer offering.
• Manage assumptions exclusions clarifications and submission requirements throughout the pursuit lifecycle.
• Support development of pricing models value propositions and differentiators aligned with customer needs and pursuit strategy.
• Ensure pricing reflects the proposed execution approach risk profile market intelligence customer requirements and required returns.
• Support commercial reviews negotiations post-submission clarifications and the transition of successful pursuits into delivery.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree in business engineering construction management marketing communications or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.
• At least nine years of progressive experience in infrastructure business development sales growth proposals estimating commercial management or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading complex pursuits in infrastructure transportation the built environment advisory professional services EPC EPCM design-build consulting government or major capital projects.
• Strong understanding of the full pursuit lifecycle including qualification strategy proposal development pricing governance submission interview negotiation and handover.
• Proven ability to coordinate complex cross-functional work and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to translate technical and commercial information into clear persuasive customer content.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet demanding deadlines while maintaining accuracy quality and sound judgment.
• Proficiency in proposal development document collaboration presentation and standard business productivity tools.

Key Competencies

• Growth and customer focus
• Commercial acumen
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Proposal and pursuit leadership
• Project management and disciplined execution
• Collaboration and stakeholder influence
• Persuasive written and verbal communication
• Planning prioritization and organization
• Risk assessment and practical decision-making
• Continuous improvement and knowledge sharing

Required Experience:

Manager