Bids & Pursuits Senior Executive

Description At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

The Opportunity: Our Bids & Pursuits team are enthusiastic and passionate business development professionals, unified by a common goal: to ensure we deliver excellence in winning work and generating profitable business for the firm.

You will be an integral part of the Bids & Pursuits team, supporting the development of best practice bids in collaboration with the wider Business Development team, partners, clients and other stakeholders.

Working directly with partners and key stakeholders across practice, industry and business services you will support the end to end development of high quality, distinctive and compelling client-centred bids and pursuits.

This role will work closely with our strategic focus industries and practices, reporting to the Regional Head of Pursuits.

As part of our commitment to driving bid excellence and supporting the professional development of our team, we are a Corporate member of APMP.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Work with fee-earners, BD team members, and other stakeholders to define the bid strategy with a clear value proposition and win themes for all bids.
• Manage end to end process for bids and pursuits from qualification to submissions, presentations and aftercare, including content management.
• Champion Ashurst Perkins Coie's global bid & pursuit methodology, drive best practice and continuous improvement across pursuits and bids.
• Lead the writing, reviewing, proof reading and amendment support to drafted content, for improved internal compliance.
• Collaborate with all teams across CMG to share and promote best practice across bids & pursuits.
• Analyse bid and pursuit reporting, statistics, feedback and outcomes to support continuous improvement of overall quality, win rates, activity and spot to trends.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working.

More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site.

The successful candidate will have:

• 3+ years' experience in a pursuit and bid role in legal, professional services or other relevant environments with a proven track record of winning strategic bids.
• Experience of proposal writing and collaborating with SME stakeholders and other teams to deliver against pursuit requirements.
• Experience supporting bid teams throughout the bid lifecycle, including critical meetings, presentations and commercial negotiations.
• Strong work-winning process knowledge, writing and project management skills; able to transform technical information into clear, compelling, succinct content for proposals to various audience types.
• Ability to identify and client requirements and articulate benefits and win themes.
• Excellent organisational skills; ability to manage multiple opportunities simultaneously, work to timescales and deadlines set by clients.
• Exceptional eye for and attention to detail, able to spot errors and inconsistencies.