Associate Director Construction Bidding - London, United Kingdom - Mace

Mace

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition.

We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe.

To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our strategy site.

Within our Consult business we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project.

The project:
Our values shape the way we consult, and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

Safety first
Going home safe and well
Client focus Deliver on our promise

Integrity

Always do the right thing
Create opportunity for our people to excel.

The role of associate director for construction bidding is to influence bidding strategy, ensuring effective implementation of industry-leading bids, pitches and proposals, including associated digital and video editorial, in support of the Mace Group business plan targets and aspirations.

This role leads on the delivery of bids and proposals, following the Mace bid process, to deliver high quality and accurate tender responses in line with the company's brand, position and processes.

You'll be responsible for:

Acts as a thought leader providing insight and knowledge.
Engages and influences senior stakeholders across the business.
Provides and gains insights and knowledge of relevant markets/service lines within the engine, including competitor intelligence, procurement trends and bid and proposal best practice.
Delivers proactive capture activities to best position Mace for opportunities ahead of being put out to market.
Partners with business units to identify and deliver proactive proposals in response to client pain points and issues.
Keeps uptodate with industry knowledge, sharing relevant insights with the team and business units where appropriate.
Utilises knowledge to inform win strategy development, challenging stakeholders to deliver a better outcome.
Follows the Mace bid process to deliver a high quality, clientfocused proposals/presentations.
Champions technical quality and commercial creativity within bids to deliver high scoring, errorfree proposals/presentations.
Ensures all required reviews and adjudication/signoffs are achieved in line with Mace Way Engage.
Takes the lead in the bid programme, ensuring content is fully compliant, quality checked to deliver a bid to deadline.
Captures new content within the Work Winning Content Hub (Aftercare).
Supports the facilitation, recording and sharing of lessons learnt/best practice.
Drives transformational change.
Seeks out new opportunities to support the engine and group growth, purpose and priorities.

You'll need to have:

Exemplar capture and bid delivery competence, with demonstrable experience in delivering highquality, persuasive proposals and presentations.
Significant line management and talent development experience.
Strong competence in building relationships and managing senior stakeholders.
Experience creating supporting media (storyboarding, stakeholder management, review and editing to deliver bespoke content aligned to bid strategy).
Experience developing content for incorporation into microsite development.
Technical competencies as set out in the senior manager job description.
Construction industry experience.
Enthusiastic, passionate, smart, gogetting and determined professional.
Proactive, positive and organised.
Analytical approach to development of people and processes using data and insights to drive up quality and improvement.
Strong attention to detail and errorfree delivery.
Flexible and open to changing priorities and managing multiple tasks simultaneously within compressed timeframes.
Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with team, colleagues and consultants/ suppliers and stakeholders in a professional, consistent manner.
Ability to exercise judgment to solve tactical problems where the answer is not apparent.
Consistently professional appearance, attitude and approach.

- "Brand ambassador" mind-set.
- "Service to the business" way of thinking.

Owns engagement and wellbeing and supports the wider team.
Demonstrable experience of working with large, complex teams/stakeholders including external consultants
Exemplar bid management experience.
Confidence working with stakeholders at all levels.
Ability to adapt to changing workload pressures, assisting all members of the bid team when required.
Proficiency in translating business/brand strategy to content/communications.
Proficiency in shaping team dynamics/areas for improvement and skills.
Proficiency in department workload and resource, adapting to suit current pressures.

You'll also have: