Bids Lead - Real Estate Proposal and Bid Management

Jones Lang Lasalle Property Consultants India Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; Remote; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards Program

Benefits package

Job summary

Jones Lang LaSalle in Bengaluru is seeking a Bids Lead to drive strategic tender responses for commercial real estate opportunities. You will partner with business lines, account teams, and SMEs to craft winning proposals on RFI/RFPs and presentations, coordinating across governance and legal reviews.

The role requires a degree in Architecture/Civil/Electrical/Mechanical, at least five years in solution development or bid management, and strong communication and influencing skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in architecture, civil, electrical or mechanical engineering.
• Minimum five years in solution development or bid management within real estate.
• Strong written and verbal communication with senior stakeholder influence.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate bid process with stakeholders to develop winning strategies.
• Develop win themes and collateral; design bid strategies.
• Coordinate reviews with governance, legal and support teams.
• Ensure timely approvals and high-quality tender responses.
• Collaborate with creative teams to enhance tender presentations.

Skills

Communication skills

Influencing skills

Solutions development

Technology aptitude

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Architecture / Civil / Electrical / Mechanical

Tools

MS Office

Job description

About the role

Bids Lead JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way . Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

Job responsibilities

What this job involves… Partnering with key stakeholders (business lines, service lines, account teams, pursuit teams and SME’s) through the bid process to execute on strategic sales opportunities which include but not limited to prospecting, RFI, RFP, presentation and contracting You will be working closely across different teams; the ideal skillset involves a mix of: Team player and adept at working to challenging deadlines Very innovative and have creative thinking to enable you to design winning opportunity strategies and associated collateral Deep knowledge of key MS office products Team player with good coordination – time and people management are essential Create bid strategies, including the identification, capture and development of win themes Champion proposal best practice Understand competitive landscape and seek to positively differentiate bid offer Ensure alignment to internal processes and obtain approvals in timely manner Submit consistently high quality, customer focused tender responses within allocated time frame Coordinate internal and independent reviews with governance, business, legal and supporting teams in line with bid programme Monitor continuous improvement and development opportunities Either personally own or work with creative teams to enhance visual impact of tender responses / presentations

Key responsibilities

What are the key responsibilities associated with this job? Coordinate the development of clear, articulate and winning value propositions for proposal and presentation to our prospective clients Partner with sales leaders, functional/technical subject matter experts and marketing to put forth a tailored, competitive solution for each qualified prospective client Work closely with the Sales Lead, Pricing Manager, other Solution & Proposal team members to create, articulate and sell differentiated solutions Participate as part of the Sales Enablement Team with their peers across the globe to ensure that there is an ongoing exchange of solutions best practices across the business Ability to question and probe proposed solutions to further refine client offerings

Key skills

What are the key skills required for this job? Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture / Civil / Electrical / Mechanical with at least five years of experience in Solution Development, Bid Management and/or Real Estate industries Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal), coupled with strong influencing skills – particularly at a senior level Proven track record of solutions development strategies Adept in usage of technology

Proposal development

Proposal Development How do you develop a proposal? In this role, you will be responsible for the creation of bespoke and innovative strategies and value propositions. Building the proposal will need you to coordinate with key internal stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure accuracy around content and pricing. Your strong proposal writing skills will be essential when having to build creative and engaging presentations. Having worked within a Real Estate environment, you will have experience of strategic sales, business development and internal relationship management. You will have worked with and influenced decision makers in the management and deployment of their property portfolio. Your Real Estate expertise would have been gained from within a facilities, projects or transaction environment.

Influencer & Collaborator

Key Influencer & Collaborator As a collaboration champion, you will need to be very well received internally, too. Your influencing skills will have helped you navigate and succeed in similar matrix organizations. You thrive on bringing teams together to build bespoke and customized solutions for our clients.

Great Communicator

Great Communicator Can you get your ideas across clearly both verbally and in writing? You’ll be working with many diverse interest groups so the way you share information and your ability to persuasively convey information is highly important.

What we can do for you

• We will empower your ambitions through our dedicated Total Rewards Program, competitive pay and benefits package.

Location and working hours

Location: Remote – Bengaluru, KA

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 48

Company information

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