Pursuit & Bids Manager

Pursuit & Bids Manager
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia _

**New**
MCBD (Marketing, Communications and Business Development)Asia Pacific Region

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**Joining Arup**

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

The Pursuit & Bids Manager oversees the pursuit and bid support needs in a specific State /Country. The pursuits and bids team provides professional support for Arup’s work winning activities in the development and management of pursuits and bids. It is part of the wider Marketing and Communications, Business Development (MCBD) team spanning Australia and New Zealand (ANZ Geography).

You will be responsible for coordinating and inputting to pursuits, developing bids with proposal teams, and supporting other client-specific BD related activities. This will require you to have, or gain, an understanding of our firm, our industry and markets, our services and our people. This role is a 12-month fixed term contract.

**The Opportunity**
- Lead and manage bids across the designated state/country, ensuring alignment with strategy.
- Proactively manage multiple specific tender processes of varying scale and complexity, including bid scheduling, compliance, and document production, having full accountability for bid coordination to achieve sophisticated, consistent and highly focused bids and offers.
- Support business development decisions and analyse bid performance metrics.
- Guide win strategies, collaborate with teams, and support client-facing activities, contribute to the development of improvements to bidding process and success rates.
- Mentor team members, support talent development, and drive process improvements.

**Is this role right for you?**
- Proven track record in bidding, including scheduling and production with at least 8 years of experience
- Strong proofing and content development skills.
- Excellent internal influencing and relationship-building skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Dynamics CRM (desirable).
- Ability to remain positively motivated under significant pressure.

**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 eligible members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

Please see a list of Arup’s Australia benefits below:

- Hybrid working policy & flexible working hours
- Paid parental leave for the primary carer of 16 weeks or 32 weeks at half pay and as well as generous unpaid leave benefits.
- Paid parental leave for the non-primary carer of 4 weeks plus the opportunity to access extra paid and unpaid leave if you later become the primary carer.
- Birthday leave
- International mobility opportunities
- Insurances (life & income protection)
- Interest free solar energy and bicycle loans
- Novated car lease
- Ovasaver including discounts, vouchers, cashback, and exclusive offers on more than 300 retailers

**Different people, shared values**

**Our Application Process**
- Arup does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies._