Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development. About the team Our Business Services team is a collective of creative, strategic, forward-thinking business enablers. Together the People & Culture, Marketing & Communications, IT, Operations, Finance and Quality & Risk Management teams make it their mission to ensure Forvis Mazars has the right tools, technology, strategies, and services in place to deliver exceptional client service and future-proof our growing business. About the role Working closely with the Head of Strategic Growth, the UK bids & pursuit team and our offshore team in Delhi, you'll be responsible for leading our support to help ensure the conversion of strategically important opportunities. You will bring the power of the whole bids and pursuits team and ensure the wider clients and markets capabilities is leveraged, by ensuring the pursuit methodology is followed, combined with the correct support and strategic advice, you will increase our chances of winning in the market. As a strategic and innovative thinker you will be adept at helping client teams identify client issues and bring together the power of the firm to present tailored solutions for those challenges to our clients. You will be service line and sector agnostic, focused on converting the opportunities for the firm that enable us to achieve our strategic priorities. The individual we are looking for is equally comfortable coaching and challenging others to achieve successful outcomes as well as facilitating meetings or workshops, you will be a critical friend and a key voice in the bid/no bid decision bringing a view of winnability to the debate. What are we looking for? Experience in a pursuit, capture or bid role, ideally from a professional services business, with demonstrable understanding of end-to-end pursuit strategy Demonstrable coaching and influencing ability, while not being afraid to challenge, to create environments for fee earners to develop stronger client relationships and understand client motivations Comfortable leading or facilitating workshops and meetings to challenge and enhance session outcomes Ability to effectively communicate with different target audiences and the ability to develop effective working relationships with and influence senior stakeholders, exuding gravitas and professionalism Comfortable with the idea of learning and using collaborative technology tools (such as Miro) to facilitate sessions or looking at the use of AI or innovative tools to reduce manual processes, allowing you to focus on providing strategic support About Forvis Mazars Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories. Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture. We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action. At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential. Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. Visit forvismazars.com/uk to learn more.