Bids Executive

What you ll do You ll manage and shape bids throughout the full process, providing practical advice, creative input and disciplined project management. Your responsibilities will include: • Managing the bid process from start to finish, coordinating contributors and delivering complete, high-quality responses to deadline. • Working with bid teams to shape the strategy, identify key themes and messages, and provide advice on the most effective approach. • Writing, editing and creatively developing proposal documents and supporting materials for both written submissions and interview stages. • Engaging with clients during scoping and debrief activity and working closely with Bid Managers on larger or more complex opportunities. • Producing focused capability statements, proposals and other bespoke marketing collateral for informally identified opportunities. • Using business development tools to identify and collate the most relevant material efficiently. • Managing pre-qualification and vendor-registration stages, including assessing the opportunity, coordinating Partners and other stakeholders, and producing the completed response. • Supporting presentation teams through rehearsals and taking ownership of presentation materials. • Maintaining and improving pre-written content, guides and standard materials within the firm s automated content library. • Producing reports and analysis of bid activity and contributing to projects that improve information flow, analysis and bid best practice across the firm. What you ll bring You ll be collaborative and proactive, with the confidence to build trust and respect with senior stakeholders. You ll also bring strong organisation, attention to detail, resilience and enthusiasm, alongside: • Experience managing bids, advising on approach and strategy, ideally gained within the Middle East region. • Experience writing and editing persuasive copy for high-quality client-facing documents. • The ability to manage, guide and advise stakeholders throughout a bidding process. • Strong project and time-management skills, with the ability to balance multiple bids, priorities and demanding deadlines. • Experience coaching presentation teams and supporting rehearsals. • A creative approach, with the ability to develop solutions to client needs and visualise alternative ways of presenting information. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with fluency in English; written and spoken Arabic is an advantage. • Strong document-production skills, particularly in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. • Experience in legal or another professional-services environment is preferred, although we welcome bidding experience gained in other industries. You’ll be collaborative and proactive, with the confidence to build trust and respect with senior stakeholders. You’ll also bring strong organisation, attention to detail, resilience and enthusiasm, alongside: • Experience managing bids, advising on approach and strategy, ideally gained within the Middle East region. • Experience writing and editing persuasive copy for high-quality client-facing documents. • The ability to manage, guide and advise stakeholders throughout a bidding process. • Strong project and time-management skills, with the ability to balance multiple bids, priorities and demanding deadlines. • Experience coaching presentation teams and supporting rehearsals. • A creative approach, with the ability to develop solutions to client needs and visualise alternative ways of presenting information. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with fluency in English; written and spoken Arabic is an advantage. • Strong document-production skills, particularly in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. • Experience in legal or another professional-services environment is preferred, although we welcome bidding experience gained in other industries.