Job Description

About The RoleCurrie & Brown is currently looking for a bid manager for our APAC region, to be based in our Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia office. The successful candidate will take the lead on all major bid projects and be accountable for collating, writing and producing all the content.Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:

• Working with the APAC senior management team to create and deliver successful strategies for the entire bidding process
• Writing compelling and engaging bid proposals for clients across a range of sectors and for different services including quantity surveying, project management and programming
• Taking early-stage draft responses to both general and technical questions and crafting final versions in a style appropriate for the submission
• Developing the key skills for producing high-quality bid documentation in English and Chinese
• Identifying important win themes and writing and editing content that speaks directly to the client's needs
• Ensuring submission documents are fully compliant with client specifications
• Developing and maintaining a technical response database that can be readily shared with technical and marketing staff
• Developing content for the company's content library ensuring the language, tone and style meet the branding guidelines
• Reviewing and editing previously written content where necessary
• Working with other marketing/business development team members to produce written bid responses and presentation collateral in line with deadlines
• Developing strong relationships with operations to create case studies, professional profiles and draft management plans to support our bids
• Establishing procedures for maintaining a register of bids, tenders and proposals for the APAC region and overseeing its subsequent maintenance
• Taking part in presentations and helping to produce all supporting documentation
• Ensuring a cohesive and consistent approach for all publications

Requirements: * Ability to manage the bid process including motivating the technical and support teams, challenging accepted practices and delivering a professionally written and presented bid document

• A minimum of five years' experience of bid writing within the construction or project design sector a definite advantage
• Good internal communication skills
• Ability to bridge the technical information possessed by the technical teams into a high-quality bid document
• A high attention to detail with an excellent editing and proofing ability
• Effective writing skills in English and Simplified Chinese
• Excellent literacy skills, with an extensive vocabulary
• Deadline-driven with effective time management skills

Currie & Brown is one of the world's leading physical assets management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients in respect of the management and utilisation of their physical assets, and is differentiated by innovation, expertise and experience.With principal offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai, we operate throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, India and the Middle East.About YouAbout UsWhy choose Currie & Brown?Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in how we approach our work and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.We don't offer just a job we offer a career with a clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful workforce.We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry-level to senior executives.

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