Associate Director Technical Authoring Lead, Infrastructure Pursuits

Description

• Embed relevant market insights, trends, and organisational value propositions into bid content.
• Work with resourcing and commercial leads to ensure technical responses remain aligned with evolving delivery strategies, resource planning, and commercial positioning.
• Work with technical specialists and internal/external stakeholders to clearly articulate complex technical solutions.
• Work closely with the Strategic Pursuits Director to translate bid strategies and pursuit plans into compelling narratives and feed input into future opportunities.
• Contribute to marketing, presentation and thought-leadership content in collaboration with Cities Directorship and Partners.
• Upskill technical contributors, champion continuous improvement including in AI/Automation and promote excellence in technical writing across the organisation.
• Critically review technical inputs to ensure completeness against scope requirements, narrative coherence, and compliance with bid objectives.
• Manage the bid quality assurance process including stage reviews.
• Collaborate closely with bid coordinators to plan, manage and deliver timely and high-quality deliverables.
• Develop tailored case studies and value proposition narratives specific to infrastructure markets.
• Lead authorship of technical responses for major infrastructure bids, ensuring alignment with client requirements and evaluation criteria.

Requirements

• Exceptional skills in writing, editing, and structuring technical methodologies, evidence and strategic bid content.
• Membership / Certification in APMP (Association for Proposal Management Professionals).
• Proven ability to interpret client evaluation frameworks and tailor responses to fully address scoring criteria, consistently achieving top scores in quality assessments.
• Strong interpersonal skills, capable of influencing and engaging multidisciplinary technical teams and building internal network of content contributors.
• Excellent organisational skills, managing working on multiple proposals concurrently while ensuring high-quality standards.
• Track record of producing precise, compliant, and persuasive answers that withstand rigorous client evaluation, ensuring bids are differentiated and score maximum available points.
• Significant experience in managing complex public sector infrastructure bids within engineering, infrastructure, or construction sectors and proven track record of high scoring questions and winning bids.
• Demonstrable track record of successfully authoring and shaping public sector bids and frameworks working alongside and with input from technical experts across a number of engineering environmental disciplines.
• Demonstrated capability to review and elevate the quality of bid content authored by others.
• The ideal candidate will have experience within design and build (D&B) environments or effectively collaborating with consultants and contractors.

Benefits

• Early leaving at the end of the month - Buro Happold actively encourages its employees to finish at 3pm on the last Friday of each month (depending on business demands). These hours can equate to an additional 4 days leave per annum.
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Flexible Benefits - including Cycle scheme, Dental insurance, Optical Cover, Travel insurance and Corporate discounts.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Income Protection.
• Life Assurance.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum, exclusive of Bank Holidays.
• Private Medical Health (family cover).

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance