Senior Consultant - Bid Management

What You’ll Do

Lead strategic opportunities, shape winning narratives, drive innovation and technology adoption, influence senior stakeholders, and build knowledge and best practice for Korn Ferry’s EMEA Bid Team.

• Manage multiple concurrent bids, RFPs, RFIs, presentations, and strategic opportunities across EMEA.
• Develop and drive deal strategies, workplans, timelines, and governance from kick‑off through submission.
• Coordinate cross‑functional teams including sales, solution design, commercial, legal, marketing, operations, and subject matter experts.

• Transform complex information into compelling, client‑focused stories that differentiate Korn Ferry.
• Challenge conventional thinking and identify creative ways to position our solutions.
• Help senior stakeholders articulate value, innovation, and measurable business outcomes.
• Ensure every submission is strategically aligned to client priorities and decision criteria.

• Leverage AI‑powered tools, content libraries, knowledge platforms, and emerging technologies to improve proposal quality, efficiency, and insight generation.
• Stay current on advancements in AI, talent technology, and workforce transformation trends to strengthen proposal narratives.
• Showcase Korn Ferry’s proprietary technology, analytics, and digital solutions as part of client responses where relevant.
• Contribute ideas that continuously evolve how we pursue, develop, and deliver winning proposals.

• Partner with leaders across the business to challenge thinking, shape responses, and drive decision‑making.
• Facilitate reviews and opportunity discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships across a highly matrixed global organization.

• Contribute to the development of reusable content and knowledge management resources.
• Identify opportunities to improve bid processes, tools, and ways of working.
• Share best practices and innovative approaches across the wider bid community.

• Strong bid management experience within a complex professional services environment.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong storytelling, content development, and communication capabilities.
• Creative thinker with the confidence to bring fresh ideas and innovative approaches.
• Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Microsoft Office skills.
• Experience with in Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO), Talent Acquisition or Workforce Solutions is highly desirable.

Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Korn Ferry may use AI as part of its recruitment process, but all hiring decisions are made by humans.