Pursuits & Proposals Manager (Fixed Term Contract)

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is 'people first', and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You'll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people's lives. You're encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

**Role description**:
As a Pursuits & Proposals Manager to cover a parental leave block, you will be responsible for the Management of selected pursuits and bids, including performing the role of Pursuit Leader for selected opportunities. You will ensure preparation of our bids are consistently of a high standard, and in accordance with best practice bid strategies with a view to increasing strike rate and margin. This position can be based in any of our locations and will be part of our centralised proposals team.

**Role accountabilities**:

- Take ownership of specific major pursuits as the Pursuit Leader, particularly in the early stages where data collection / gathering market intelligence / market positioning activities dominate
- Provide an oversight of the quality and consistency of our bids, taking into account lessons-learnt to improve strike rates, and improving our compliance with best-bidding strategies
- Look for and drive improvements in our Bid Management processes ensuring any best practices are filtered back to the Business and SPEC
- Author compelling non-technical elements and assist with technical elements of proposals as required
- Contribute to sales meetings with Pursuit Managers and Business Leaders
- Exposure and engagement with Clients in pursuit, bidding and post submission debriefs to be able to continuously improve our proposal and bidding strategies.

**Qualifications & Experience**:
First and foremost, you share our passion for winning work, improving the quality of life and know that our people are what gets us there. You pride yourself on your stakeholder management skills; being able to foster positive working relationships and you listen so that you really get to know what our business is about. You will come to us with a proven track record in proposal/bid management, working within a management consulting firm and are familiar with major infrastructure projects. You will also demonstrate strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, effective stakeholder management skills and ability to influence and negotiate outcomes when needed.

With exceptional attention to detail, you will have proven ability to lead a proposal program, have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and are comfortable in building strong relationships and influencing positive outcomes. Furthermore, an advanced experience in Microsoft Office suite of programs is essential.

**Why Become an Arcadian?**

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people's lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients' most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it's not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

**Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging**:
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer