Pursuit Leader - Transit Facilities

Job Description

We are recruiting for an experienced Pursuit Leader to join our well-established and experienced Transit Architecture Studio. This role will focus specifically on our transit architecture team’s bid management processes, as such prior experience in this industry and knowledge of bid delivery models (DBB, DB, P3, PDB, Alliance) is a must-have requirement.

You will be responsible for the end-to-end bid process - planning and managing activities across a range of disciplines and identifying and delivering win strategies. In addition to managing strategic pursuits, you will work proactively with the Arcadis Growth team to identify areas for development and support and actively engage in initiatives within the sector to improve the win rate.

As Pursuit Leader you will have the following responsibilities:

• Plan, coordinate and manage cross sector, multi-country pursuit activities to completion including, develop winning proposals, short list interviews and pursuit close out activities
• Identify pursuit team and identify necessary resources ensuring we have the best team
• Facilitate the development and completion of proposals through the gathering of technical, commercial, financial information from a wide range of sources, and business areas, in a structured manner
• Author, review and edit technical elements of proposals, developing content that is tailored to the client's requirements and aligned to identified win strategy (e.g., key messages I win themes)
• Develop messaging and materials for interviews and presentations.
• Develop and effectively manage commercial strategies for the pursuit
• Recognize commercial strategies (margin, profitability, profitability) and ability to coordinate with finance and legal
• Facilitating workshops and submission reviews
• Identify continuous improvement of pursuit processes, systems and tools to contribute to improved efficiencies
• Conduct post selection debrief with client and pursuit team to drive lessons learned/ best practice sharing
  
  

Qualifications

The key factors needed for this role will be your ability to establish relationships with your stakeholders quickly, influence your peers in best practice bidding techniques and operate in a collaborative and diplomatic manner. The following will also be required:

• Professional degree in Architecture or Engineering
• Minimum 10 years proven track-record managing pursuits in the Transit industry
• Ability to influence others at all levels of business and building and maintaining professional relationships
• Ability to work independently and as part of team
• Understanding of commercial strategies (margin, profitability, profitability)
• Ability to coordinate with finance and legal teams
• Ability to work to rigid deadlines
• A natural communicator with excellent written and oral presentation skills
• Excellent time management skills and able to prioritize a busy schedule and workload
  
  

Additional Information

The salary range for this position is $100,000 - $150,000 year (depending on years of experience and location).

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