Proposal Coordinator

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Bid Co-ordinator to join our Rail team to work in Redhill, Canary Wharf. Role Purpose: To prepare and support the non-technical activities for work winning from Early Opportunity Identification through to Contract Award involving business development and support, Bid support, e.g. PQQ and Tender submissions etc. Ensuring high quality, compelling proposals are delivered to the customer in a manner consistent with the Balfour Beatty Gated Lifecycle and our strategy for winning the right business and to establish and maintain, positive and effective relationships with internal and external customers, partners, supply chain and the Work Winning community within Balfour Beatty.

What you'll be doing

Manage the bid portals, downloading new opportunities for distribution to relevant people in the business, in a timely manner. Ensure portal documentation, is kept up to date. Form relationships with the bid teams to develop clear understanding of their requirements to enable development of our value proposition. Provide bid coordination support, document production and control. Produce deliverables schedule with timescales and owners/writers. Develop templates (ensuring they meet the Client requirements) and ensuring that final documents are formatted accordingly for submission (collating the pdf documents with bookmarks). Support business development activities pre bidding. Work with Inhouse BB communications team to produce graphics for the submissions. Ensure that considered responses are produced to customer generated questions/queries during/after the tender process. Encourage knowledge sharing across Centres of Excellence and the wider Balfour Beatty Group (harness the capability of
the larger organisation on a local basis). Live the Balfour Beatty Values including ensuring a relentless focus on Zero Harm and supporting the delivery of Rails Sustainability activities., Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on. Supporting these projects, are dedicated and industry leading people delivering on our customer's needs every day.

Has thorough knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, has good knowledge of SharePoint / Teams, has knowledge of Adobe InDesign and Photoshop an advantage, has good publishing experience to format submissions, has good report writing skills, has ability to engage with and drive the team to produce quality outputs, pays attention to detail and will see tasks through to completion, is a team player with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, is a self-starter who can manage their own time and proactively seeks and executes activities that will add value to their function, has some knowledge of the construction industry or experience within a project-based organisation, has ability to work to deadlines.

Founded and headquartered in the UK throughout its 114 years, Balfour Beatty is proud to be the UKs largest infrastructure provider delivering critical national infrastructure schemes and projects at the heart of local communities spanning Hinkley Point C and HS2 to Little Horsted substation and Denbighshire coastal defence scheme. Across Britain we employ c.12,000 people including 750apprentices, graduates and trainees and are one of the Governments 40strategic suppliers. Balfour Beatty Rail Limited is an international leader in rail infrastructure engineering projects and the UK's largest rail engineering and services provider. We offer a full range of rail infrastructure activities from high-speed rail to mass rapid transit, covering urban, rural and commuter routes, for both public and private railways. At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential

not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists. Asa Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for the min
obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk