General Electric is Looking for Environmental Planning Bidding Coordinator Full Time

Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

This role is part of Arcadis’ Global Excellence Centre (GEC) and will join our 3,000+ talented individuals working in India, Romania, and Philippines, in partnership with Arcadis’ offices globally. The GEC brings key capabilities and capacity to support our clients seamlessly around the world. For those in GEC there are options to be dedicated to one country; developing deep knowledge and strong relationships, as well as opportunities to be part of teams working truly globally as a centre of excellence, offering diversity and variety. Arcadians are by nature, globally minded and culturally aware, and Arcadis strongly believes in flexibility which enables change over time as your career progresses. The GEC model is well embedded in Arcadis, and the strong relationships that exist between our global offices are truly unique.

We require a Bidding Co-ordinator with a track record of supporting large bids, leading on simple proposals, and working across many disciplines, to support the business development activities for our team. Our projects span all consenting regimes, all sectors and all phases of the project life cycle. The successful candidate will have proven experience of working in the Environment and / or Planning industry in a variety of Sectors, understanding the bidding process and driving excellence in the process and the collateral required for successful outcomes

Role accountabilities:

• Supporting the team with the Pursuits to Win / bidding process.
• Support pursuit development, bid planning, delivery, and governance through all stages of the Arcadis way lifecycle. Responsible for coordinating the pursuit process from capture planning, kick-off meetings through the production of client response template, editing, formatting, collating, proofreading and electronic delivery of proposals such as Expressions of Interest (EOIs) or Requests for Qualifications/Quotations (RFQs) and other proposal-related requests.
• Support the team with completion of governance and maintain and update the records of this on the Arcadis Systems.
• Update, reformat and/or rebrand MS Word, MS PowerPoint and InDesign documents, proposals, statement of qualifications, capability statements, etc.
• Maintain and update the sales pipeline for Environmental Planning.
• Improve knowledge management and team collateral.
• Supporting with collation of marketing.

Client Focus remains a key priority for the Environmental Planning business. In this role you will be responsible for supporting the development of pursuits, supporting growth in our key sectors, ensuring compliance with Arcadis systems, supporting major pursuits, supporting raising our marketing profile and contributing to market facing activities relating to environmental delivery to drive visibility of the business in the market

Qualifications & Experience:

The successful candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Proven business development / pursuit management experience, with an understanding of the Environment sector.
• Experience of directing and supporting major (and minor) pursuits and managing the required approval process. Working with Pursuit Teams/Technical Bid Managers to lead and support coordination and development of creative, compelling, and quality proposals and other Pursuit to Win tasks.
• Supporting the development of marketing material that has demonstrably been influential in work winning.
• Good commercial awareness and organisational understanding.
• Good attention to detail.
• Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently.
• Proficient in the knowledge, use and application of a variety relevant software and systems, including Adobe, MS Word and PowerPoint.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Key Qualifications:

Qualified to degree level in a relevant discipline or demonstrate significant equivalent experience.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone’s contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.