Bids and Proposal Coordinator

12-month Fixed Term Parental Leave contract
- Join a national engineering consultancy | Newcastle Location
- Rewarding and inclusive company culture

**The Company**
Northrop Consulting Engineers is an employee-owned, multi-discipline consultancy that has been established for over 45 years. We have an open management structure that embodies a diverse, inclusive and flexible workforce for all our employees.

We currently employ over 500+ staff across ten offices in NSW, ACT, QLD, and VIC. We are essentially a people business that grows by creating opportunities for our people to help build the business and their career. When you join Northrop, you join a company that will support you to excel both professionally and personally.

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**About the role**:
This position is available immediately and will be in a permanent full-time capacity on a 12-month Fixed Term Parental Leave contract.

**Day to day responsibilities include**:

- Manage production of proposals for key strategic ‘must-win’ projects.
- Work with the local BD team to understand Northrop's value proposition and ensure it is communicated in our proposals.
- Draft all proposals based on RFT documents.
- Liaise with clients regarding outstanding submissions and seek feedback.
- Track and identify leads through a number of tender portals.
- Maintain register of proposals.
- Maintain and update where required our existing content including project write-ups, CV’s etc.
- Ensure consistent development and improvement of Northrop proposal content.
- Regularly liaise with the Marketing Manager to ensure regional initiatives are aligned with corporate direction.
- Assist the Marketing Manager in producing campaigns that require input from the Newcastle region.

**The talent you’ll bring**:

- Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Office skills. Ability to format documents.
- Experience with Adobe InDesign, Canva and other similar packages are desirable.
- Good copywriting skills. Can take engineers’ technical explanations and transform them into compelling stories.
- Has excellent organisational skills - can work with over 15 internal stakeholders at any given time and prioritise tasks effectively.
- Strong communication skills - can explain the benefit of marketing to engineers in the business. Can collaborate effectively across the business.
- Has a strong track record in proposal coordination and submission and can help develop our business support team in this area.
- Commercial acumen - understands our value proposition and can articulate it to the market in proposals.
- Industry experience in either Engineering Consultancy, Construction or Architecture in a similar role is highly desirable.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a proven ability to troubleshoot.
- Highly effective interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to communicate with team members, stakeholders and clients.
- Work effectively to meet deadlines, both independently and as part of a close team.

**What does working at Northrop look like?**
At Northrop we are proud of our family feel and collaborative working environment. We are a people business and by joining Northrop you’ll be able to build and foster meaningful relationships with your colleagues, clients, and the community. Northrop believes that our employees are fundamental to the culture and success of the company.

Our people enjoy working for us because we offer a challenging, diverse and rewarding work environment. We believe in developing our people by offering mentoring, coaching, and supporting your journey to realise potential. You’ll be empowered to learn and develop to find your area of passion. At Northrop, we understand that the key to success is our people. Together we are creating a workplace that offers career development, employee benefits and values an inclusive culture.

We are also proud to have signed Australian Engineers Declare a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency declaration, giving you the opportunity to respond to the challenge. Northrop is committed to embedding climate action into our projects and all aspects of our operations

**Benefits**:

- We practice flexible hybrid working and are open to discussions about what that means for you
- Benchmarked salary package with annual salary reviews
- Flexible working hours
- Paid parental leave (primary carer, maternity and partner leave)
- Salary income protection insurance
- We offer alternative public holiday leave for those needing to substitute another day for a public holiday to celebrate a religious belief, etc.
- Respectful, supportive and collaborative culture
- We Empower: Mentoring programs, internal and external training and monthly career development/one-on-ones

**How to apply?**
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We practice flexible working, whether that be a hybrid way of working, WFH and office. We are open to discuss what that might mean to you.

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