Bid Assistant

Turner & Townsend; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services company seeks a Bid Support Specialist in Riyadh. The role involves managing bid submissions, supporting communications, and coordinating with teams. Ideal candidates should have experience in bid support and strong organizational skills. Proficiency in English is essential, and Arabic is a plus.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of experience in a bid support role.
• Strong advantage for qualifications in marketing, business, or relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Monitor vendor portals for bid opportunities.
• Manage incoming bid opportunities from email inbox.
• Create baseline documents for bid responses.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

Qualifications in Marketing or Business

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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

This role will support the bidding function of the Middle East Business Generation team. The post holder will support the delivery of winning bid submissions and provide support for all related internal and external communications and activity.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring vendor portals for opportunities to bid
• Updating vendor registrations as required
• Manage incoming bid opportunities from email inbox for distribution
• Uploading RFP documents for legal review with Risk Management (RM) team
• Creating baseline documents for bid responses
• Completing company profiles, supplying standard documents for pre-qualification questionnaires
• Organising meetings for bid teams
• Supporting the wider bidding team in capturing best practice answers and sharing new materials
• Setting up MS Teams channels for bid management
• CV formatting following standard branding

Role dependencies

• Reports into the Associate Director, Business Generation – Middle East
• This role has no direct reports

Location and travel

• The post holder will be based in our Riyadh office
• There is no requirement for travel beyond occasional trips to Dubai

Qualifications

• Qualifications in marketing, business or another relevant field is a strong advantage
• Minimum of two years of experience in a bid support role

Skills and behaviours required

• Demonstrated ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines
• Strong attention to detail
• Well-organised with a customer-orientated approach
• Good knowledge of MS Office products (PowerPoint, Word and Excel)
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Excellent written and spoken English is essential and Arabic language skills advantageous

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employeesand actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to formally submit candidates for review via our ATS.

Please find out more about us atwww.turnerandtownsend.com

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.