Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
- Works and supports global and in-country pursuit teams with the coordination and development of creative, compelling, and quality end-to-end proposals.
Role accountabilities:
- Works with pursuit teams on the coordination and development of creative, compelling and premium-quality proposals.
- Ensures compliance with client requirements as stated in bid documents (RFI, EOI, RFQ, RFP, Pre-Qualification and Panels).
- Leads pursuit teams through the full proposal management process from proposal kick-off meetings to collating key information, resource coordination, content development and production and eventually, submission of proposals.
- Collaborates with different pursuit teams to build the most competitive and winning proposals that provide value to clients.
- Analyses bids of varying complexities and develops bid management plans to capture client requirements and lay out a proposal schedule which includes milestone activities, dates, and logistics considerations.
- Facilitates proposal review meetings to determine compliance and apply lessons learned to add more value. Leads the proposal document design and works closely with designers to develop graphical collaterals, ensuring adherence to branding guidelines and bid instructions.
- Coordinates with technical teams, corporate teams, partner firms, and/or subconsultants to gather proposal content and additional company information needed on an agreed schedule.
- Tailors staff resumes and past performances section of proposals in accordance with the pursuit or scope of work.
- Performs other pursuit-related administrative tasks as needed
- Assist the Team Leader in training the Proposal Coordinators, provide guidance to the team on the Arcadis Way of Client Development and liaise with section managers on required trainings
- Help manage the team's workload and monitor RMS as needed.
- Obtain feedback from proposals for lessons learned to incorporate in future proposals.
- Contribute, participate and provide support on the continuous process improvement of the Global Shared Service Center.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Proficiency with MS Office applications. Knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, etc.) is an advantage
- With a minimum of five (5) years of experience in coordinating, scheduling, editing and producing proposals, statement of qualifications, reports, pre-qualifications and client presentation.
- Supervisory experience is an advantage
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Engineering, or other relevant fields.
- Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Preferably tech savvy.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated commitment and dedication through participation in process improvement initiatives and other team-related activities.
- Ability to work under pressure, including handling high-volume tasks and responding to quick turnaround requests.
- The successful candidate will be a high-energy and resourceful self-starter who demonstrates a strong work ethic and willingness to learn
Why Arcadis
We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.
You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.
Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a people rst business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.
