Proposal Coordinator

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Joining Jacobs is more than just a career. We value and invest in our people and communities to foster growth and success. Our inclusive culture embraces diverse perspectives, building collaboration and trust to challenge the norm. Your ingenuity, diverse thinking, and experience will contribute to our ongoing success and help create a positive work environment. You'll deliver great work through your passion and expertise, in collaboration with diverse teams.

About The Opportunity

Do you want to be at the forefront of driving our company strategy and at the heart of growing our business? Are you passionate about winning work for our teams? Within our P&PS Buildings and Infrastructure European Growth & Sales team, we have an immediate requirement for Proposal Coordinators to work on some of our region’s largest sales pursuits and opportunities. This role will expose you to the heart of the business, sitting at the forefront of delivering on our Strategy European Roadmap.

Our Proposal Coordinators support the disciplined application of our Relationship Based Sales process to achieve successful growth outcomes for the business. This role will provide the opportunity to gain a holistic understanding of our sales process and hands-on experience of the various roles and functions, providing a sound foundation for a career in Growth and Sales.

Your enthusiasm for working as part of a driven and disciplined team, with a motivation to overcome hurdles and obstacles to find solutions is essential for success. Our team are agile, driven, highly organised, and resilient individuals who are all focused on winning work. We operate in pressured environments and have created a close-knit community where we constantly support each other, and share knowledge, best practices and lessons learnt.

Working day-to-day on Middle and End Game activities, you will support the development of win strategies and compelling sales messages, working with Growth & Sales and Operations colleagues across all sectors to convert these into winning offers for our largest and most strategic pursuits. This role requires drive, diligence, and a curious, inquisitive nature, challenging our teams to identify innovative solutions to respond to our clients’ and society’s greatest challenges.

Applicants can be contracted to either our London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow or Dublin offices. We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Here's what you'll need

• Experience of working within successful teams on large and/or complex projects.
• Good communicators, with a disciplined approach, attention to detail, and a passion to win.
• Strong attention to detail and an ability to establish and meet deadlines.
• Strong organisational and research skills with an ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to manage, coordinate, write, review, and edit text, graphics, and metrics for sales documents such as proposals, qualifications, and presentation slides.
• Ability to grow a good internal network across the business and our employee networks.
• Previous sales experience is desirable, but not essential, and all technical and professional backgrounds will be considered.

The selection process is focused upon attributes and relevant practical experience, as opposed to prescribed levels of academic or professional qualification. Key attributes for the role include, but are not limited to:

• Basic business acumen.
• Ability to positively deal with unexpected change.
• Desire for success and the elimination of failure.
• Patience, positivity, and resilience.

As part of your application, please respond to the following on a one page answer and attach as a covering letter: “Why are you interested in joining our Growth and Sales team as a Proposal Coordinator?”

Why Jacobs?

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 45,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.

This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team. Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.