Associate Director - Bid Manager (Water)
The Associate Director - Bid Manager works on the most strategic and complex major bids using their experience and expertise to guide and support senior business leaders, technical teams and bid teams to efficiently deliver winning bids. The Bid Manager works primarily on the qualified pipeline of Enterprise Critical Pursuits (ECPs) that deliver our strategy and will make the greatest difference to growth. Reporting to the Work Winning Lead for Water, the Bid Manager shapes the strategy for major bids and leads teams through the full lifecycle of bids, from positioning to capturing lessons learned. In addition, they help maintain the pipeline of opportunities, ensuring alignment with business strategy and goals, collaborating with leadership to produce client-centric outcomes. You will be a part of our Water business, supporting bids across the UK and Ireland, focused on solving challenges around climate change, water scarcity, and flood resilience. Here's what you'll do:
- Preparing and managing large/complex proposals that may involve multiple departments, regions and external partners, supporting from capture through to interview/lessons learned stage.
- Leading the creation and execution of win strategies, working with capture managers, client account managers, technical teams, leadership and marketing to express this clearly to the client in our communications and bid.
- Overseeing positioning and capture activities, including facilitating win strategy workshops, working with key internal stakeholders and leadership.
- Following best practices, using AECOM processes and templates to create compliant and compelling bids.
- Leading and driving forwards all bid stages including kick off, answer planning, review stages, document production, interviews - adding value as a subject matter expert in bidding.
- Analysing internal debriefs and client feedback on proposals to ensure and demonstrate continuous improvement and identify trends, lessons learned and best practices across clients and markets.
- Lead discrete projects within the work winning team to embed best practice in bidding across Water, such as delivering training.
- Assist the Water Work Winning Lead with active pipeline management and resource planning.
- Line management of Water Work Winning team members, assisting with coaching and supporting their professional development. If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM Water page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry! Come & Grow with Us. Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 600 experts across the UK & Ireland. Collaborate with top-tier civil, mechanical, electrical, and process engineers to deliver a variety of captivating projects, from small initiatives to large-scale ventures, all the way from concept to completion. Here, you'll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued. At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
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