Pursuit Manager - 12 Month FTC

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

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:

Responsibility to manage key elements of a pursuit to ensure the pursuit process is followed and to ensure that high quality pursuits are produced on time and within budget, you will work closely with

• Strategic Opportunities and Pursuit Management team – to support in the production of winning pursuit submissions and client presentations
• External suppliers – to liaise with existing suppliers to ensure all output collateral is delivered on time
• Senior Pursuit Managers / Pursuit Directors – working directly with Pursuit Mangers, Pursuit Directors and technical specialists in the creation of winning pursuits
• Graphic Design Team – working closely on pursuits to ensure a high quality of output is consistently achieved
• GEC – working with existing GEC resources to ensure on time and quality production of agreed deliverable
  
  

Role accountabilities:

• Allocate project tasks to project team members and monitor performance, to ensure delivery of key pursuit components on time and at the required quality
• Ensure that the stakeholder management and communication plan is implemented so all relevant information and feedback is taken into consideration in the pursuit process
• Monitor costs and resource utilisation, escalating any issues for resolution
• Coordinate the production of regular pursuit project reports, identifying emerging risks and issues and proposing remedial action where needed
• Contribute to the handover of successful pursuits to the Project Manager, ensuring provision of all relevant information
• Contribute to post-pursuit reviews and ensure lessons learned are documented, to support the management of future pursuits
• Identify and propose improvements to the pursuit process that reduce risk and/or cost and/or enhance quality
• Input to a range of business systems (e.g. Sales Cloud; SharePoint; and project accounting system) in line with defined procedures to ensure that they are accurate and up to date
• Project manage individual jobs from inception to completion
• Communicating closely with a wide range of colleagues to ensure quality input to the pursuit is achieved within the pursuit timescales
• Demonstrate excellent prioritising and organisational skills in order to manage own workload, ensuring projects are to set timescales and budgets
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Ability and experience of managing pursuits
• Previous work experience in a relevant industry
• Previous project management experience, including experience in supporting complex, multi-disciplinary projects
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Proficiency in using relevant software and systems
  
  

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 we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.