Senior Bid Specialist

Job description / Role

We are looking for a talented Senior Bid Specialist to join our Win Work team in Dubai.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a winning, compliant, error free document arrives with the client in the correct format, meeting the deadline.
• Provide organization and structure for bid teams to ensure effective and efficient work and use of time.
• Execute and drive corporate governance.
• Ensure the effective use of the WW process and tools, for all bids, to optimize the opportunity of winning.
• Leads capture planning / win strategy planning sessions.
• Generate top down estimates, use benchmarking tools to support financial models.
• Manage the production of all bid documents ensuring they meet required quality standards and time deadlines.
• High level understanding of commercials required.
• Execute and drive corporate governance to achieve approvals in-line with submission deadlines.
• Leads the interview/presentation ensuring the team has the correct level of creative input and coaching support to enable a winning approach.
• Enact change in the organisation by driving improvements and doing things differently.

Requirements

• The successful candidate will have experience in the Middle East Design Consultancy Sector, be enthusiastic and organised, and have the ability to lead the bid process from capture stage to project appointment.
• They will possess strong people leadership skills and have the ability to work under time pressure and deadlines.

About the Company

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).