Senior Capture Manager – Transportation Growth (Hybrid UK) in Manchester

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The Senior Capture Manager is a key leadership role responsible for driving strategic growth in the Transportation business through securing major pursuits ($20-$100M). This position requires leadership, strategic thinking, and the ability to lead capture and positioning strategies. Reporting to the Strategy & Growth Director for Transportation, the role involves developing and implementing winning capture and client positioning strategies, fostering collaboration across global and regional business lines, and ensuring operational excellence throughout the pursuit lifecycle. This is a hybrid role with travel as required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise critical pursuits ($20-$100M) as the Capture Director formulating clear and compelling winning capture and client positioning strategies.
• Drive integrated strategies to improve capture and win rates and secure transformative programs.
• Analyse competitive landscapes, leveraging insights from recent wins and losses to refine strategies.
• Build trust with client decision-makers, delivery partners and internal stakeholders, including Client Account Managers, Market Sector Leaders, and Regional Business Line Leaders.
• Demonstrate resilience and adaptability, ensuring focus remains on those opportunities which will deliver growth ambitions and provide greater value to our clients.

Business Development:

• Drives growth through the ability to position for and capture key opportunities including both new business opportunities and the renewal/extension of existing opportunities within key accounts.
• Lead a holistic approach to capture strategy development, including client listening, win strategy creation, solution development, marcomms planning, answer planning, review through to debrief and lessons learnt.
• Partner with proposal, marketing, technical, operations and commercial teams to prepare Capture Plans for complex proposals.
• Partner with Client Account Managers and business leaders to nurture client relationships, identifying needs and delivering tailored solutions.
• Develop opportunity pipelines based on client intelligence.
• Drive cultural change in approach to capture, supporting the adoption of AECOM’s positioning and pursuit playbooks and roll out of supportive training across the region.
• Facilitate pursuit strategy meetings and provide guidance and coaching for client engagement/positioning, presentation and interview teams.
• Promote a collaborative approach, leveraging multidisciplinary teams from across the region and globe to achieve success.

Operational Excellence:

• Champion the complete lifecycle of the sales process, ensuring quality assurance and adherence to Go/No-Go rigor.
• Maximise the value from growth enabler functions (e.g. Major Pursuits Team, Client Listening, Digital AECOM, AI, Strategic Marcomms and HR); take the lead in coordinating strategy development with these functions on your major pursuits identified for their support.
• Coordinate with strategic marketing to plan and execute effective pursuit-based positioning campaigns that supports client positioning/engagement and elevated brand awareness.
• Ensure compliance with commercial, financial, legal, and governance elements of opportunities and contracts.
• Drive accountability for delivering sales metrics and achieving high capture/win rates.

Qualifications:

• Experience in significant pursuit capture strategy development and alignment with business targets and growth strategy, recognised as an industry expert.
• Proven track record of successfully leading strategic and complex pursuit strategies (NSR > £20m) across multi-disciplinary and multi-locational teams.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate at all organisational levels – strong leadership skills with experience of managing large and diverse pursuit/capture teams.
• Expert communicator - experienced in facilitating collaborative workshops with diverse teams, ensuring an inclusive approach to stakeholder engagement.
• Experience must demonstrate sales production metrics, demonstrated skills in business development strategy, team leadership, client discovery and development of compelling value propositions that meet client’s needs.