About the Role
Join a collaborative Central Bids team of around 20 bid professionals, supporting key global sectors, legal practice areas, and locations. Based in Dubai, you will focus on bids for the Middle East offices in Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, and Riyadh while supporting the wider Central team as required. You will manage the production of bids from start to finish, working closely with the Bids Manager and Senior Bids Executive in Dubai, along with Bid Partners leading each opportunity. You will advise on bid best practices, coordinate stakeholders across the firm, and provide project management and creative oversight to deliver high-quality responses on time. Your contributions will span bid strategy, proposal development, client engagement, presentation preparation, content management, reporting, and continuous improvement.
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What You’ll Do
You will 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 deadlines.
- Working with bid teams to shape the strategy, identify key themes and messages, and providing 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 activities, 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 opportunities, 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 practices across the firm.
What You’ll Bring
You will be collaborative and proactive, with the confidence to build trust and respect with senior stakeholders. Strong organization, attention to detail, resilience, and enthusiasm are essential. Additionally, you should possess:
- 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 visualize 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.
Why Join Us?
Our “exceptional by design” approach means we’ve deliberately shaped a firm where you can do your best work. We combine meaningful work, clear expectations, and the support to build a career that works for you. Here’s what we offer:
- Meaningful work with real impact - the opportunity to contribute to initiatives and projects that genuinely affect our clients and the success of a leading international law firm.
- A firm that backs your growth with clear expectations, structured development, and real investment in helping you reach your potential.
- A progressive culture that is collaborative, inclusive, and forward-looking, providing the space to innovate and excel.
