Senior Bid Manager at AECOM in Cardiff, Wales, gb

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

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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

Are you ready to help shape the future of our water business?

In this position, you have the unique opportunity to manage the end-to-end work winning process for our most complex and strategic water bids, ranging in value from £5m to £20m+.

Reporting to the Work Winning Lead for Water, our Senior Bid Manager will deliver high quality proposals, work collaboratively with stakeholders and adhere to AECOM’s work winning processes. You will be a part of our Water business focused on solving challenges around climate change, water scarcity and the energy transition.

Responsibilities will include:

• Preparing and managing large/complex proposals that may involve multiple departments and regions, supporting from capture through to interview/lessons learned stage.

• 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.

Being part of the team:

As part of the Water Work Winning Team, you will contribute to initiatives to improve the quality of bids across the Water business through preparation of training materials, knowledge management and upkeep of the bid library, and promoting the use of industry-recognised processes.

Come & Grow with Us.

Become part of our dynamic Water business, which boasts around 700 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'll need from you:

• Experience of managing complex multi-disciplinary bids, 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.

• A sound working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams and PowerPoint.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to work with stakeholders at all levels including senior leadership.

• The ability to work positively under pressure and deliver quality output to deadlines.

• An eye for detail, not accepting second best and taking personal pride and responsibility for all aspects within their control.

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 ReasonableAccomodations@aecom.com. 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!

Additional Information

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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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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 ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.