Bid Assistant

Company Description
- At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to transform performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world._

**Job Description**:
Our teams in our Sheffield office are at the heart of the most complex and interesting programmes taking place in South Yorkshire today, shaping the infrastructure and real estate investment that supports the regional economy. Flagship programmes we are currently delivering include the Sheffield Heart of the City II and Sheffield Supertram.

Working closely with our senior leadership team, 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**:
**Essential technical criteria**
- Demonstrable experience at producing draft bid responses
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to use InDesign and the Adobe suite of software to produce graphics and high-quality published material
- 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)

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._

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.