Bid Assistant, Infrastructure Bristol, England
Job description
At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference – we are committed to delivering Sustainable Net Zero outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
The world is changing, and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it.
Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us.
We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.
It’s how we’ve made the difference for 75 years. Transforming performance for a green, inclusive and productive world.
We have an exciting opportunity for Bid Assistant to join our busy and expanding Bristol based, Business Generation team. This role will be supporting our Infrastructure teams.
Key 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 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.
Essential Technical Criteria:
- Demonstrable experience at producing draft bid responses
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Advanced in Microsoft office, including Sharepoint
- Experience of working with bid portals
- 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 skills
- Delivering quality
- Drive and commitment
- Leadership
- Thinking
- Working with others
- Ideally degree qualified in a relevant subject, such as Marketing or English.
- APMP Certification is preferred but not essential
- In Design software experience is preferred but not essential
Additional Information
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.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
