Company Description
Turner & Townsend is an independent professional services company specialising in programme management, project management, cost management and consulting across the property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. With 119 offices in 49 countries, we draw on our extensive global and industry experience to manage risk while maximising value and performance during the construction and operation of our clients’ assets.
During 2021 Turner and Townsend Partners LLP announced a strategic partnership with CBRE Inc, a US listed commercial real estate services and investment firm, which has seen the company acquire 60% of the share capital of Turner & Townsend Holdings Ltd. The investment will accelerate our Vision 2025 ambitions and provide the firepower to grow our capability and capacity to be the leader in our markets. It will accelerate the realisation of our Purpose - helping us to transform performance for a green, inclusive and productive world.
Job Description
Our teams in the Scotland region, comprising of our Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen offices, are at the heart of the most complex and interesting programmes taking place in the region today.
Working closely with our senior leadership team across the wider region, the business generation team is responsible for driving growth within the Infrastructure and Real Estate sectors through positioning, bidding, brand enhancement, pipeline generation and key account management. As a bid assistant, you will play a key role in the creation of unique, detailed, accurate bid submissions that will contribute to the continued growth and success of the business.
Responsibilities
- Work with relevant members of the team to, write and produce draft documents and bid responses in accordance with company standards
- Manage bid timetable to ensure bid team members respond in line with bid plan with bid plan and that all deadlines are met and that bids are submitted on time and in the correct manner
- Review bid document and pull together previous relevant bids, best practice answers from bid portal and systems
- Proofing and editing colleague’s bid response documents, ensuring each document contains required information required to create a successful, winning bid
- Work with other Bid Specialists as a community of practice to ensure a consistent quality of bids
- To work towards improving and enhancing the standard and effectiveness of written responses in conjunction with the Bid Team and the community of other Bid Specialists
- Work in conjunction with Business Generation to ensure central bid library is kept up to date and bids are filed, meta tagged and best practice answers and unique questions identified to build the bid portal.
- Support the management of the Contacts and Marketing database and assist as required with regional Business Generation activities, including event management.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Ideally degree qualified in a relevant subject, such as Marketing, English or Graphic Design.
Essential technical criteria
- Demonstrable experience at producing draft bid responses
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Advanced in Microsoft office, including SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Word
- Experience of working with bid portals and / or electronic document management systems
- Excellent organisation skills and ability to prioritise
- Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks
Essential behavioural criteria
- Building relationships
- Commercial focus
- Communication
- Delivering quality
- Drive and commitment
- Leadership
- Thinking
- Working with others, including high level personnel
- Ability to work autonomously
Desirable technical criteria (but not essential)
- Association of Bid Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) Practitioner (or working towards)
- APMP Certification is preferred but not essential
- Indesign software experience is preferred but not essential
Additional Information
Hybrid working patterns are envisaged but this may vary in accordance with the requirements of Turner & Townsend or clients. Candidates must be able to work at their designated home office as required.
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com.
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