Senior Bid Coordinator - Public Sector

Turner & Townsend

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 16 days ago
Company DescriptionTurner & 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:Job DescriptionThe Public Sector Senor 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
  • Working 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
QualificationsEssential 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 Behavioural 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 InformationOur 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.#LI-SMSOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: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 of Turner & Townsend and are not 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.

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