Professional Bid Coordinator

At Turner & Townsend, we're passionate about making a difference. This means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and contributing to a prosperous society.

We help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects worldwide. Our team in Australia is dedicated to supporting the growth of our business in the region.

We offer a wide range of benefits to support our staff in both their personal and professional lives. These include flexible working arrangements, regular team events, and opportunities to develop new skills.

Our ANZ business has experienced significant growth in recent years, becoming the leading force in construction consultancy, project management, advisory, and quantity surveying. With over 1,300 colleagues across the region, we have ambitious plans to continue growing and achieving excellent outcomes for our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide proactive support to Directors and teams to prepare for future bids by equipping client teams to position, demonstrate value, and understand future opportunities.
• Coordinate and support the development of collateral to demonstrate value or support positioning activities.
• Analyse, coordinate, write, and develop comprehensive PQQ/RFT/RFP responses incorporating specifications within strict timescales.
• Support strategic pursuit planning and bid forums, including win theme development, storyboarding, and bid feedback/lessons learned.
• Ensure local knowledge, evidence/research, and writing style/branding are incorporated in bids to target defined audiences.
• Coordinate input from bid partners, directors, technical experts, and wider teams as necessary to ensure consistent and coherent final bids against scoring criteria.
• Provide structured formats and text for others contributing to bids. Quality assure and provide peer review functions of another writer's work.
• Review and amend draft bids considering feedback from peers, directors, and Bid Manager.
• Ensure bids are submitted for review under internal quality assurance and governance processes.
• Work flexibly across the organization to support Directors dependent on tender activity to ensure unified and consistent approaches to bids.
• Following submission of bids, extract key information from tenders and manage information in line with information management processes and internal feedback analysis processes.
• Support best practice training on bid process, structure, and quality.
• Support Business Development with any other activity as required.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Australian working rights
• Experience of writing successful bid submissions
• Project Management or Bid Management previous work experience
• Strong MS Office Skills and IT Literacy
• Proof-reading skills with a keen eye for accuracy and detail
• Organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines while maintaining high standards of quality
• Capacity to travel with occasional overnight stays
• Communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing, and foster credible collaborative relationships
• Respond flexibly to demands of the post
• Team player willing to adapt to changing priorities of the business
• Relevant degree in an Engineering discipline or Business, Marketing, English
• Detailed knowledge and experience of the Real Estate/Infrastructure/Construction sector

Benefits:

We offer a wide range of benefits to support our staff in both their personal and professional lives. These include flexible working arrangements, regular team events, and opportunities to develop new skills.

Others:

This is a great opportunity to grow your career with a dynamic team, where you can contribute openly to success and development of the company.