Bid Manager

**The Opportunity**:
Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow In this role, you’ll work with the Sydney Bids and Pursuits team as a Bid Manager responsible for helping win opportunities for WSP that will allow us to contribute to growing our business with key client accounts.

The Bid Manager position is an integral part of the development of pursuits and winning proposals. You will be part of a team of bid professionals working closely with key account managers and technical staff to ensure consistency in the implementation of our business development process, particularly the pursuit and tendering of opportunities. You will be responsible for managing and ensuring the correct bid process is followed, incorporating lessons learnt from previous bids as part of the strategy development in conjunction with the Pursuit Leaders.

**What you’ll do**:

- Manage the pursuit development and proposal submission processes, ensuring they align with the WSP BD process
- Work with Transport’s Key Account Managers and Client Directors to provide strategic advice into identifying and qualifying decisions to pursue/bid appropriate opportunities
- You will need to demonstrate strong experience in pursuits and proposals and membership of the Association for Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) would be valued
- This is a hands-on role and you will be facilitating strategy development, writing non-technical sections and managing technical, financial, and inputs by engaging with key contributors across the business
- Workshop/storyboard content with tendering teams to guide the development of content that is client-focused, compelling, comprehensible and compliant with the client’s request
- You will bring experience and confidence to advise and coach teams for presentations and interviews with clients
- Coach/mentor/educate staff in bidding practices and company BD processes
- You will also have excellent writing and editing skills, with an ability to influence and engage others

**What we’ll love about you**:

- Degree qualified in business, marketing, communications or journalism or equivalent experience
- Proven career experience in winning work, sales, journalism or marketing
- Experience in professional services is preferable
- You will possess excellent communication skills, the ability to work under pressure while maintaining control, be well-organised, efficient and have high attention to detail
- Your ability to influence, engage and build trust with others will be key to succeeding in this role as well as your ability to successfully manage your time and workload

**About WSP**

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with an international scale.
- We are future-focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

WSP prioritises the health and well-being of our people by offering flexible working, 12 months of parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal-opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTQI+ community and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

WS_P supports a diverse and inclusive work environment as well as equal employment opportunities. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of culturally diverse backgrounds to apply._

Please note we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies for this role.

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