Job Title Pursuit Manager - Infrastructure Location Sydney Description
Ashurst is a leading global law firm with a determination to go beyond the ordinary by outpacing change. We have a community of 4800+ people across over 30 offices globally and are a trusted adviser to top corporates, financial institutions and governments. What sets us apart is our ambition for our people and our clients.
What makes Ashurst a great place to work?
- Flexible work options
- Market leading parental leave of 26 weeks paid leave irrespective of gender
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and corporate health plans
- Genuine opportunities to grow your career through secondments or global opportunities,
- Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including tailored professional development for all employees, coaching, mentoring and study support for further education.
- We have a strong commitment to social impact, demonstrated by our extensive volunteering and pro-bono opportunities, as well as our award-winning social inclusion and mobility programs.
- We are committed to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
The Opportunity:
We currently have a great opportunity for a Pursuit Manager to join our global team in Sydney. Our Global Pursuit Team are enthusiastic and passionate professionals unified by a common goal: to ensure that we create a centre of excellence for strategic pursuits that focusses on generating profitable business for the firm.
In this role, aligned to pursuits within our Infrastructure industry, you will be responsible for managing a pipeline or priority pursuits, leading pre-positioning and development of win strategies with key stakeholders and the end-to-end pursuit management of project opportunities. You will be an integral part of the team supporting the development of Infrastructure bids and proposals in collaboration with the Global Pursuit Team, the wider Clients, Markets and Growth team, partners and other key stakeholders.
This role brings a fantastic opportunity to share bid and pursuit best practice, contribute to bid improvement and efficiency and develop deep relationships with partner and CMG stakeholders within our Infrastructure industry.
As part of our commitment to excellence and professional development we are a Corporate member of APMP.
A full job description including a breakdown of responsibilities can be found attached to the role on our careers page https://www.ashurst.com/en/careers/
We are interested in hearing from people who have:
- 5+ years' experience in a pursuit and bid role in legal, professional services or other relevant environments
- Strong technical capability in leading pursuits including stakeholder engagement and project management skills and a proven ability to successfully manage complex work-winning processes
- Extensive experience developing win strategies with an ability to successfully articulate themes, differentiators and benefits
- Ability to effectively manage and engage key stakeholders in leading pursuits/bids along with the ability to manage multiple opportunities simultaneously (based on complexity)
- Highly competent user of the Microsoft Office suite including Word and Powerpoint
We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.
For more information or if you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: globalresourcing@ashurst.com for a confidential conversation.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.
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