Senior Bid Manager

Overview

In this role, you manage end-to-end work winning for complex water bids, guiding them from capture through to post-interview lessons learned. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders across regions to deliver high-quality, compliant proposals that align with AECOM’s processes. You’ll lead bid stages, develop winning strategies, and drive continuous improvement based on client feedback. This position sits at the heart of the Water business, supporting climate, water scarcity and energy-transition challenges. You’ll join a global team that values impact, training, and knowledge sharing to elevate bid quality and outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• flexible work arrangements
• well-being programs

Responsibilities

• Prepare and manage large/complex proposals spanning multiple departments and regions, from capture to lessons learned.
• Oversee positioning and capture activities, facilitate win strategy workshops, and engage leadership from internal stakeholders.
• Follow best practices and AECOM processes/templates to produce compliant, compelling bids.
• Lead all bid stages including kickoff, answer planning, reviews, document production, and interviews as a bidding expert.
• Analyze internal debriefs and client feedback to drive continuous improvement and share lessons learned across clients and markets.
• Lead discrete projects within the work winning team to embed bidding best practices, such as delivering training.

Key requirements

• Experience managing complex multi-disciplinary bids in construction/engineering from capture to lessons learned.
• Experience creating win strategies/themes for compelling and compliant bid responses.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams and PowerPoint.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, able to engage at all levels including senior leadership.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver high-quality outputs to deadlines.
• Attention to detail and ownership of all aspects within one’s control.

• Stakeholder management
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Communication excellence
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Teams

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