Senior Bid Coordinator - Public Sector

Turner & Townsend Plc.; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Public Sector Senior Bid Coordinator to lead complex bid management for impactful projects. This role involves collaborating with diverse teams to create compelling proposals that meet client needs and drive success in the public sector. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in bid management, strong organizational skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office tools. Join this dynamic team and contribute to transformative projects that enhance communities and improve lives. Enjoy a flexible working environment that values work-life balance and fosters personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Health and wellness programs

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in bid management, especially for public sector projects.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple bids simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Write and edit bid content to align with client requirements.
• Manage tender programs and coordinate bid timelines effectively.
• Produce visually appealing bids using company templates.

Skills

Bid Management

Public Sector Procurement

Microsoft Office

Written Communication

Team Collaboration

Time Management

Leadership

Relationship Building

Education

Degree in Marketing or English

APMP Certification

Tools

Microsoft PowerPoint

SharePoint

Bid Portals

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.

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
• 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 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
• Building relationships
• Commercial focus
• 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.