Senior Bid Co Ordinator

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Bid Coordinator to join our busy and expanding Business Generation team in the North West region. This role will support our Real Estate and Advisory teams.

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 inline with the 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 Business Support, Marketing and Business Generation where needed.

Essential Technical Criteria

• Ability to work with Senior Stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrable experience at producing draft bid responses from developing content through to final documentation
• Experience of developing answers through Storyboarding
• Advanced in Microsoft Office, including Share Point
• Ability and experience in utilising AI tools
• 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
• Building relationships
• Commercial focus
• Drive and commitment
• Leadership
• Working with others

Qualifications

• 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

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.