Senior Bid Coordinator

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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• Write, review, and edit bid content to ensure alignment with client requirements and business objectives.
• Collaborate closely with service division lead to drive and energise technical teams to produce winning bids.
• Develop a strong understanding of procurement processes, including bid portals, compliance documentation, and governance.
• Ensure a coherent bid strategy is developed and maintained.
• Manage tender programmes and multiple bid timelines concurrently.
• Arrange and coordinate tender and post-tender meetings.
• Produce visually appealing bids using company templates in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
• Continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of written and visual responses.
• Maintain and update the central bid library, ensuring bids are filed, meta-tagged, and best-practice answers captured for future use.

• Understand the bid pipeline and proactively support in positioning the team to win future opportunities.
• Collaborate with the senior leadership team to help
• Oversee and manage in region events to promote services and engage clients.
• Execute marketing activities using digital platforms such as Linked In and Dot Digital.
• Work with the Senior Leadership Team to define the North East brand plan and deliver sector-focused marketing and business generation strategies.
• Collaborate with the UK communications team to promote activities and cascade opportunities.
• Collaborate with the UK campaigns team to roll-out national campaigns in-region.

• Extensive experience in a bidding role.
• Strong organisational and bid management skills with the ability to prioritise and elevate as required.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while being a strong team player.
• Confident and challenging and improving bid outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience producing draft bid responses.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint and SharePoint.
• Experience working with bid portals.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Familiarity with digital marketing tools and platforms, including M365.
• Creative thinking and ability to contribute new ideas for marketing and business generation. Proved ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Building relationships
• Commercial focus
• Communication skills
• Delivering quality
• Drive and commitment
• Leadership
• Working with others

• Ideally degree‑qualified in a relevant subject (e.g., Marketing or English) preferred but not essential.
• APMP Certification preferred but not essential.

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…