Senior Proposals Coordinator

Arup; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Arup is seeking a Senior Proposal Coordinator to support their UKIMEA Energy, Water, and Resources Portfolio in developing high-quality winning bids. This role involves managing bid processes, collaborating with teams, and ensuring impactful proposals, offering professional growth within a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Flexible benefits

Profit Share

Qualifications

• Experience in bid coordination and writing in a professional services context.
• Ability to identify and communicate work-winning priorities effectively.
• Experience working collaboratively in bid teams under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Manage bids to ensure high-quality and competitive proposals are produced.
• Collaborate with bid teams and external partners throughout the bidding process.
• Contribute to the production of high-quality submissions and proposals.

Skills

Competitive drive

Time management skills

Collaborative approach

Communication skills

Job description

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The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Proposal Coordinator. The purpose of this role is to support our UKIMEA Energy, Water and Resources Portfolio in developing winning bids.

This is achieved by contributing to the effective co-ordination of the bidding process, and the production of high-quality submissions and proposals.

Is the role right for you?

As a Senior Proposal Coordinator, you'll play a key role in managing bids, ensuring high-quality, competitive proposals are delivered. You'll collaborate with bid teams and external partners, supporting best practices and contributing to Arup’s 12-Step work-winning process.

This position offers professional development within the UKIMEA CMC network, with mentoring from experienced colleagues. Your work will be guided by senior proposal staff, and you'll have opportunities to support work-winning efforts across the region. If you excel at coordinating bids, fostering relationships, and refining proposal content, this could be the ideal role for you.

Requirements
Key qualities we are looking for in candidates include:

• Competitive drive, dedication to achieving challenging deadlines and good time management skills
• Experience of bid coordination and bid writing, possibly within the UK Business sector or a professional services context
• Ability to identify and communicate work winning priorities and strategies
• Experience of playing a central role within bid teams and of work collaboratively with others under pressure
• A personable, collaborative, and resilient approach
• An ability to draw out and communicate ideas effectively and creatively and a willingness to work collaboratively with colleagues to produce impactful, clear, and compliant submissions.

What We Offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefitsto help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

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Created on 25/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom