Business Manager - Aviation Market

AtkinsRéalis, a world-leading design, engineering, and project management organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the worlds infrastructure and energy systems.

We are active in the Middle East and India for over 10 years with our regional headquarter in Dubai, and offices in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. Our Middle East and India presence is complemented by our operations across Asia Pacific, Europe, and the USA, and our 2,000 plus global staff.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Business Manager to join the Aviation Market team based in Dubai. You will play a vital role in ensuring that various essential business activities run efficiently, and contributing to the successful growth of the market via your diverse responsibilities and skills. Working closely with the Market Director and the wider team you will support efficient coordination of marketing material, bids, live projects, resources and financial metrics.

Utilizing your extensive knowledge of the AtkinsRealis systems in the Middle East for management of key clients, opportunity pipeline, bids, resources, projects and finance you will provide essential support for the day-to-day coordination of the market as well as helping to deliver on the growth strategy. This will be achieved by splitting your time to support the core functions of market growth, bid management, project delivery and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Market engagement with the capabilities: Act as a key liaison between different capabilities, and markets where necessary, to ensure that all teams are informed about future and current project resourcing requirements.
• Project management: Assist in planning and managing projects, tracking progress, and ensuring that resources are allocated effectively. This includes setting timelines and coordinating tasks among team members or the wider business to meet client needs and requirements.
• Bid support: Provide bid support to the wider team and engage with Win Work where necessary. Ensure that relevant disciplines are briefed on current and upcoming bids, execute and drive corporate governance processes, systems and procedures related to the preparation and submittal of bids, ensure a winning, compliant, error free document arrives with the client in the correct format, meeting the deadline, provide organisation and structure for bid teams to ensure effective and efficient work and use of time.
• Market operations: Support the Market Director in tracking and managing the resources within the market including utilisation and project deployment. Assist in interpretating financial data and performance related to project delivery and market overheads.
• Maintain the opportunity pipeline tracker: Maintain an accurate and up to date opportunity, bid and project tracker to aid the market deliver growth whilst ensuring compliance and efficient retrieval of information.
• Marketing material: Take ownership and maintain up to date the Aviation Market marketing and bid collateral (Value propositions, capability statement, CVs, Project Sheets, Model Answers, Best Practice Bids)
  
  

• Organizational skills: Strong organizational abilities essential for managing multiple tasks and activities simultaneously.
• Communication skills: Effective verbal and written communication skills for liaising internally between colleagues across the business as well as with external stakeholders/suppliers.
• Problem-solving: Ability to identify issues and develop solutions in a fast-paced business environment.
• Be assertive, enthusiastic and highly organized, methodical and flexible
• Possess strong people leadership skills
• Have confidence to approach colleagues and stakeholders all levels to progress activities and resolve issues
• Work under time pressure and deadlines
• Have a minimum of 5 years working in a Business Coordinator, Project Management, bids and proposals position
• Ideally have experience of working in a professional services environment, transportation experience desirable
• Possess Advanced skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Dynamics CRM, and Adobe Acrobat InDesign
  
  

• Must have a Bachelors Degree level or equivalent Professional qualifications, preferably in design / engineering / construction related field or business / marketing
• Experience with airport projects a bonus.
  
  

• A competitive salary
• Transportation allowance
• Medical and life insurance cover
• Annual leave
• Company gratuity scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual flight allowance to point of origin
• Employee Well-Being Programme – 24 hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants;