Senior Bid Coordinator - Public Sector

Turner & Townsend; London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London is seeking a Public Sector Senior Bid Coordinator to manage complex public sector bids. You'll write and edit bid content, support teams in preparing submissions, and ensure alignment with client requirements. Ideal candidates will have extensive public sector bidding experience and strong communication skills. A flexible working environment and commitment to diversity are core values of the company.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in public sector bid management.
• Strong bid organization and management skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience producing draft bid responses.

Responsibilities

• Write and edit bid content to meet client requirements.
• Drive teams to produce successful bids.
• Manage tender programs and timelines.
• Produce visually appealing bids in PowerPoint and Word templates.
• Maintain the central bid library and governance processes.

Skills

Bid management

Excellent written and verbal communication

Team player

Ability to work under pressure

Advanced Microsoft Office proficiency

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in a relevant subject (Marketing or English)

Tools

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft SharePoint

Bid portals

Bid portals

Job description

Overview

The Public Sector Senior Bid Coordinator is responsible for the end-to-end bid management of complex public sector bids. Working with the Business Generation team in London, this role will be supporting our Real Estate, Infrastructure and Advisory teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Write, review, and edit bid content, ensuring alignment with client requirements and business objectives
• Drive and energise the public sector teams to produce winning bids
• Work closely with the Central and Local Government Sector Leads
• Have a strong understanding of UK public sector procurement processes – from start to finish, including bid portals, company compliance documents and governance processes
• Ensure that a coherent bid strategy is developed and upheld
• Manage tender programme and multiple bid timelines concurrently
• Arrange and coordinate tender and post tender meetings
• Produce visually appealing bids in our company templates in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word
• To work towards improving and enhancing the standard and effectiveness of written and visual responses
• 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

Qualifications

Essential Technical Criteria

• Extensive experience working in a bidding role predominantly working on public sector bids
• Excellent bid organisation and management skills with the ability to prioritise and escalate as required
• Team player with ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Demonstrable experience at producing draft bid responses
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced in Microsoft Office, including SharePoint and PowerPoint
• Experience of working with bid portals and public sector procurement
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks

Essential Behavioral Criteria

• Building relationships
• Commercial focus
• Communication skills
• Delivering quality
• Drive and commitment
• Leadership
• Working with others

Qualifications

• Ideally degree qualified in a relevant subject, such as Marketing or English
• APMP Certification 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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