Bid Co-Ordinator

Turner & Townsend Limited; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend, a global professional services company, is seeking an experienced Bid Coordinator in Glasgow to join their Business Generation team. The role involves drafting bid submissions, managing timelines, and collaborating with various teams to enhance bid quality. Ideal candidates will possess a degree in a relevant field and exhibit strong communication and organizational skills. The company promotes a diverse and inclusive working environment.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for career development

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in producing draft bid responses.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
• Experience with bid portals is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Draft bid responses according to company standards and timelines.
• Manage bid submissions to ensure deadlines are met.
• Proofread and edit documents for clarity and accuracy.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Advanced in Microsoft Office

Excellent organisation skills

Ability to work under pressure

Building relationships

Education

Degree in Marketing, English or Graphic Design

Tools

SharePoint

PowerPoint

Word

Job 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.

Our teams across our Scottish offices, are at the heart of the most complex and interesting programmes taking place in the region today therefore we are looking for an experienced Bid Coordinator to join our Business Generation team based in either Edinburgh or Glasgow.

Working closely with our senior leadership team across the wider region, the business generation team is responsible for driving growth within the Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors through positioning, bidding, brand enhancement, pipeline generation and key account management. As a bid assistant, you will play a key role in the creation of unique, detailed, accurate bid submissions that will contribute to the continued growth and success of the business.

Responsibilities

• Work with relevant members of the team to, write and produce draft documents and bid responses in accordance with company standards
• Manage bid timetable to ensure bid team members respond in line with bid plan with bid plan and that all deadlines are met and that bids are submitted on time and in the correct manner
• Review bid document and pull together previous relevant bids, best practice answers from bid portal and systems
• Proofing and editing colleague’s bid response documents, ensuring each document contains required information required to create a successful, winning bid
• Work with other Bid Specialists as a community of practice to ensure a consistent quality of bids
• To work towards improving and enhancing the standard and effectiveness of written responses in conjunction with the Bid Team and the community of other Bid Specialists
• Work in conjunction with Business Generation to ensure central bid library is kept up to date and bids are filed, meta tagged and best practice answers and unique questions identified to build the bid portal.
• Support the management of the Contacts and Marketing database and assist as required with regional Business Generation activities, including event management.

Qualifications

• Ideally degree qualified in a relevant subject, such as Marketing, English or Graphic Design.

Essential technical criteria

• Demonstrable experience at producing draft bid responses
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced in Microsoft office, including SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Word
• Experience of working with bid portals and / or electronic document management systems
• Excellent organisation skills and ability to prioritise
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks
• Building relationships
• Commercial focus
• Communication
• Drive and commitment
• Leadership
• Thinking
• Working with others, including high level personnel
• Ability to work autonomously

Desirable technical criteria (but not essential)

• Association of Bid Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) Practitioner (or working towards)
• APMP Certification is preferred but not essential
• Indesign software experience is preferred but not essential

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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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