Intern – Bids

Intern – Bids

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

Job Description

Summer Intern Program 2023

Make Amazing Happen!

Whether you’ve recently finished your college education and trying to find that “perfect fit” or about to complete your university degree and want to get a taste of the real world, AECOM has a wide variety of Internship opportunities available.

Responsibilities & Duties

Winning new work is essential for AECOM’s continued growth and ensuring our multi-discipline teams have the opportunity to work on the most interesting, challenging and excited projects.

The Intern joining the Bids Team will gain exposure to every discipline within AECOM and work with these teams to craft winning technical and commercial proposals.

The role focuses on creative, coordination, commercial and business development skills – you will work closely with technical and support services teams to pull together bid strategies and produce proposal documents that are tailored to client needs and offer winning solutions.

You will learn from other members of the team and gain skills in:

• Developing and managing the bid/PQQ/ITT program and progress
• Execution of bid submission documents
• Facilitating workshops/ strategy and bid planning meetings including working with key proposal contributors to establish a clear win strategy and develop storyboard content
• Managing the compliance and managing reviews of the quality and technical content
• Liaison with commercial bid team to align all submission aspects
• Promoting the effective use of AECOM’s work-winning processes and tools
• Research and use of existing internal & external data sources in bids
• Managing and maintaining all bid documents and sending them to the appropriate functions for response/review/signature in accordance with the bid program
• Answer planning, copy writing and editing
• Writing guidance for technical writers
• Coordination with creative team for graphics
• Presentation preparation and coaching
• Sharing knowledge, insights and learning
• Identifying and sharing lessons learned as inputs to the continuous improvement of the work winning process and tools

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master’s Degree in Business, Marketing or Strategy from an accredited University
• Must have graduated within the last 12 months or graduating no later than June 2023
• Successful applicants must have a minimum 3.4 GPA or 2:1 (or equivalent) and above
• Candidates must be currently based in the UAE
• If you hold a Master’s Degree, you must have started it within 12 months of completing your Bachelor’s Degree in order to have continuous education

Additional Information

The Intern Program will run from 26 June – 29 Sept 2023 and is your opportunity to land a permanent position with AECOM. If your performance has been successful, based on a mid-program review, you will be offered a full-time role as a young professional in your field as part of our highly competitive Graduate Program starting in November 2023.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

ReqID: J10081578

Business Line: Geography OH

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: ME and Africa

Career Area: Business Development