Senior Bid Co Ordinator - 12mth FTC

Turner & Townsend; Leeds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Bid Coordinator to join its dynamic team in Leeds. This role involves crafting compelling bid responses, managing timelines, and collaborating with various teams to enhance the quality of submissions. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills and a knack for organization, ensuring that all bids are submitted on time and meet the highest standards. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to impactful projects within a supportive and inclusive work environment, where your ideas and efforts can truly make a difference.

Qualifications

• Experience in producing draft bid responses is essential.
• Excellent communication skills are crucial for this role.

Responsibilities

• Manage bid documents and ensure timely submissions.
• Collaborate with teams to create compelling bid responses.

Skills

Written Communication

Verbal Communication

Organization Skills

Creative Thinking

Time Management

Education

Degree in Marketing or English

APMP Certification

Tools

Microsoft Office

SharePoint

D365

InDesign

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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

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Bid Coordinator to join our busy and expanding Business Generation team based in Leeds or Sheffield. This role will be supporting across our Real Estate, Infrastructure and Advisory teams.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Work with relevant members of the team to write and produce draft documents and bid responses in accordance with company standards.
2. Manage bid timetable to ensure bid team members respond in line with the bid plan and that all deadlines are met and that bids are submitted on time and in the correct manner.
3. Manage and deliver win theme workshops and storyboarding sessions with the relevant bid teams to develop creative and compelling bid responses.
4. Review bid documents and pull together previous relevant bids, best practice answers from our bid hub and systems.
5. Proofing and editing bid response documents, ensuring each document contains required information to create a successful, winning bid.
6. Work with and manage other Bid Specialists as a community of best practice to ensure a consistent quality of bids.
7. 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.
8. Work in conjunction with Business Generation to ensure our 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.
9. Support the management of the D365 prospects and opportunities within Microsoft Dynamics.
10. Support on marketing initiatives and events and assist in the production of professional marketing collateral documents, presentations, case studies and CVs when required.

Qualifications

1. Demonstrable experience at producing draft bid responses.
2. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
3. Advanced in Microsoft Office, including SharePoint.
4. Experience of working with bid portals.
5. Excellent organization skills and ability to prioritize.
6. Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
7. Proven ability to manage multiple tasks.

Essential Behavioural Criteria:

1. Building relationships.
2. Commercial focus.
3. Communication skills.
4. Delivering quality.
5. Drive and commitment.
6. Leadership.
7. Creative thinking.
8. Working with others.

Qualifications

1. Ideally degree qualified in a relevant subject, such as Marketing or English.
2. APMP Certification is preferred but not essential.
3. 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.