Senior Bid Coordinator in Newcastle upon Tyne

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.

Location: Gateshead, England, United Kingdom

Seniority level: Executive

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Administrative

Industries: Construction, Civil Engineering, and Business Consulting and Services

Bid Coordination Responsibilities:

• Write, review, and edit bid content to ensure alignment with client requirements and business objectives.
• Collaborate closely with service division lead to drive and energise technical teams to produce winning bids.
• Develop a strong understanding of procurement processes, including bid portals, compliance documentation, and governance.
• Ensure a coherent bid strategy is developed and maintained.
• Manage tender programmes and multiple bid timelines concurrently.
• Arrange and coordinate tender and post‑tender meetings.
• Produce visually appealing bids using company templates in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
• Continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of written and visual responses.
• Maintain and update the central bid library, ensuring bids are filed, meta‑tagged, and best‑practice answers captured for future use.

Business Generation Support Responsibilities:

• Understand the bid pipeline and proactively support in positioning the team to win future opportunities.
• Collaborate with the senior leadership team to help.
• Oversee and manage regional events to promote services and engage clients.
• Execute marketing activities using digital platforms such as LinkedIn and DotDigital.
• Work with the Senior Leadership Team to define the North East brand plan and deliver sector‑focused marketing and business generation strategies.
• Collaborate with the UK communications team to promote activities and cascade opportunities.
• Collaborate with the UK campaigns team to roll‑out national campaigns in‑region.

Qualifications

Essential Technical Criteria:

• Extensive experience in a bidding role.
• Strong organisational and bid management skills with the ability to prioritise and elevate as required.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while being a strong team player.
• Confident and challenging and improving bid outcomes.
• Demonstrable experience producing draft bid responses.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, including PowerPoint and SharePoint.
• Experience working with bid portals.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Familiarity with digital marketing tools and platforms, including M365.
• Creative thinking and ability to contribute new ideas for marketing and business generation.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast‑paced environment.

Essential Behavioural Criteria:

• Building relationships
• Commercial focus
• Communication skills
• Delivering quality
• Drive and commitment
• Leadership
• Working with others

Education & Certifications:

• Ideally degree‑qualified in a relevant subject (e.g., Marketing or English) preferred but not essential.
• APMP Certification preferred but not essential.

Additional Information:

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e‑mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.