Pursuits Manager - APAC location

If you’re an experienced Pursuits Manager looking for a unique opportunity to bring your skills to a highly engaged team, where your efforts and impact will be recognised and valued, then this is the role for you.

SLR are global leaders in full-spectrum sustainability solutions; providing clients with strategic advice and on the ground technical support, partnering with them in Making Sustainability Happen. Globally, we are a collaborative team of over 3,000 engineers, scientists, strategists, advisors, designers, and skilled support staff tackling some of the world’s most complex sustainability challenges. Here in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region where this role is based, you’ll be joining a team of 700+ professionals spread across 25 offices throughout Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

As the APAC Pursuits Manager, you will be working alongside some of the world’s leading advisors and technicians on projects of global importance in the environmental space.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Head of Marketing – Asia Pacific as our new Pursuits Manager, you’ll be a key member of our APAC-wide marketing team, bringing proven experience developing responses to request for proposals, master service agreements and statement of qualifications. We’ll also look to you to have excellent verbal communication and interpersonal skills, superior organisational and time-management skills, and the ability to work on multiple competing priorities with technical staff across the business.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Preparation of proposals and responses to clients in accordance with established style and content requirements
• Participation in quality assurance, ensuring proposals adhere to client requirements.
• Development of proposal outline documents, schedule/facilitate contributions of all parties, ensure RFP compliance, draft standard proposal sections, facilitate reviews, and perform quality control on final document.
• Participation in proposal strategy and review meetings. Where several disciplines are involved in a submission, coordinate the information from the various disciplines in a manner that the submission has a uniform and coherent appearance, as well as a singular voice.
• Where appropriate, conceptualise and integrate graphics to convey proposed solutions.
• Manage the production of proposal documents.
• Collaboration in the preparation of materials required for selection interviews.
• Assisting with the development and maintenance of proposal tools/repository.
• Managing, monitoring and maintaining opportunity procurement sites

Cultural fit and shared vision are very important to SLR. We want to grow our team around the right people, so possession of the following qualities will allow you to thrive!

• Critical thinking: you love building strategy, understand how to synthesise large amounts of information into powerful messages, and enjoy the challenge behind crafting winning proposals.
• An excellent writer/communicator: you know that professionalism is in the details. Organisation, presentation, and professional writing are all in your wheelhouse. 
• Collaborative: you enjoy working with others, know how to work effectively within diverse teams, and excel in communicating ideas and messages to various audiences.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree in marketing, communications, journalism, public relations, environmental sciences or an equivalent level of experience
• 5 years of experience in proposal development or similar environment
• Previous experience with consulting or engineering and/or a demonstrated ability to understand technical terminology is preferred
• Strong MS Office skills, and experience with Adobe Creative Suite including InDesign and Photoshop
• Experience with RFP compliance and quality assurance
• Strong researching, writing, proofing, formatting and editing skills
• Understanding of basic financial terms and functions, along with experience working with budgets and schedules (e.g., Gantt charts)
• Understanding of technical language and documentation

Working at SLR

We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they will tell you that is just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years. 

Benefits you'll enjoy as part of our SLR team:

Our culture is unique where we work together to collaborate on projects to get the best possible outcome for our clients. Whether you’re working in the office, from home or a mix of the two, we recognise that every person is different, and our benefits aim to ensure that we cater for all, including:

• Hybrid work model (in-office & from home) - you choose where you work best.
• Extra paid purchased leave up to 10 days so you can re-energize, help others, support family, or focus on your own professional development.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents throughout their parenting journey which includes 14 weeks primary carer and 6 weeks secondary carer leave.
• Learning and development which includes a mapped career progression path, study assistance and up to 3 professional memberships subsidised by SLR
• Employee Assistance Program to support your physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
• Global and regional mobility and recruitment referral bonus for both region and global candidates.
• Other benefits include regular office social events, service anniversary awards, salary sacrificing (novated car lease) and a corporate uniform shop where you get $100 annually to spend.

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills, and passion. Please note that interviews are conducted with gender diverse interview panels to the best of our ability.

When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
Unsolicited resumes from recruitment consultants will not be accepted