Business Development Specialist

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**:
AECOM is seeking a for **Business Development Specialist **to join our team. This position is based out of our Burnaby, BC office.
Job Summary:
Under the supervision of the Regional Business Line Leader, the Business Development Specialist is responsible for maintaining efficient and high caliber support for strategic positioning, communications, marketing, and business development activities. They will perform accurate, timely and efficient delivery of services in support of internal and external clients’ requirements and achieve excellent service that enhances AECOM’s reputation in the marketplace. The key focus of the role is to manage the development of high-quality bid and proposal documents, as well as consistent communications, presentations and printed qualification materials in response to formal and informal client solicitations, including Letters of Interest (LOIs), Expressions of Interest (EOIs) Requests for Qualifications (RFQ), Requests for Proposals (RFP) and/or for positioning efforts in accordance with AECOM brand guidelines and to meet client requirements.
- Collaborate with Bid Management to prepare proposal content outline and compliance matrix for large complex proposals
- Work with the technical team to develop the proposal schedule and key milestone deadlines
- Collaborate with Capture Manager to facilitate/lead proposal status meetings
- Collect and assemble proposal and presentation content from company archives (such as resumes, project profiles; appropriate legal, finance, safety, and company information), sub-consulting firms, and technical content providers (e.g. proposal manager and technical/professional staff).
- Coordinate input of technical components and write non-technical components
- If necessary, coordinate and lay out documents and presentations, and where appropriate complete printing and binding or other final production of projects; develop and edit supporting graphics
- Review and edit proposals
- Submit proposals to clients
- Coordinate the writing of Project Summaries post proposal submission
- Update and maintain proposal library and project profile library
- If necessary, review, filter and distribute tenders received from online tender search services
- Update and maintain Salesforce database and produce reports on request
- Performs other marketing and business development activities such as collection of market research, design and production of marketing collateral or other related materials.

**Qualifications**:
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

- BA/BS, preferably in Journalism, English, Communications, Marketing or a related field, plus proposal support and/or marketing experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Relevant university/college level qualifications degree in Communications, Journalism, Business, Marketing, or equivalent combination of experience and education
- Five (5) years or more of proposal sup