About

• Company Description
• Work with Us. Change the World.
• At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.
• There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.
• We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.
• Job Description
• Start here. Grow here.
• Are you ready to help shape the future of our water business?
• 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.
• Enjoy the Perks.
• 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.
• Qualifications
• Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for

• Experience operating at a senior leadership level, able to positively challenge and influence stakeholders.
• Experience working in a bids and proposals environment.
• Demonstrated success in winning high value / complex major pursuits (above £20million) in the construction/engineering industry, from capture/positioning phase to interview/lessons learned.
• Experience of creating win strategies/themes to craft compelling and compliant bid responses.
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills, both virtual and in-person.
• Experience of line management / mentoring.
• APMP Practitioner/Professional level certification preferable but not essential.
• Additional Information
• We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.
• If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!
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• About AECOM
• AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
• Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
• You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
• You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
• AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
• Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
• We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

• State/Province: Birmingham
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
• Business Line: Water
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - Birmingham - Colmore Plaza