Proposals Manager

Job description / Role

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration - through conceptualization - to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we've led with vision, contributing to many of the world's most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50 th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Proposals Manager to join our award-winning team based in Dubai, UAE.

This position is responsible for providing administrative and operational support to the Co-Managing Director in order to ensure the most effective utilization of their time to facilitate their priority focus on strategic, high value leadership and management tasks and responsibilities.

Responsibilities

We envisage success in this role to include:

- Manages and tracks all proposal progress, including post-submittal follow-up with clients.
- Leads the proposal teams, ensuring compliance with established processes and procedures.
- Leads in debriefs and lessons-learned; identifies areas in need of improvement and develops appropriate solutions.
- Coordinates with division/ discipline management to facilitate Go/No-Go decisions and win strategies.
- May attend client meetings and negotiations.
- Reads and interprets RFPs to determine client requirements.
- Works with proposal coordinator and administrator to help prepare compliance matrix, assign responsibilities, and establish and maintain the proposal schedule.
- Leads in the development/discovery of proposal themes, discriminators and win strategies.

Requirements

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that you will bring a minimum of 8 years career experience with a Bachelors Degree in Marketing or similar and with excellent English technical writing and visual communication skills.

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and Adobe InDesign are required.

Arabic communication skills will be viewed favourably.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its' contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.

About the Company

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.