Our Story

About You:

You are a high achiever looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You take pride in your own work but are comfortable collaborating with a team of highly motivated individuals. You can communicate clearly and concisely with teammates and clients, and you enjoy strong company culture and camaraderie. You can navigate multiple corporate functions, including global lines of service and corporate centers of excellence. You possess strong interpersonal skills and are willing to take on diverse tasks to achieve the team’s common goal. You value personal and professional growth and are ready to take the next step in advancing your career.

If this sounds like you, well, then you will love the culture at Avison Young!

About Us:

Avison Young is a global commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, offering transaction, management, financial and consulting services. We’ve designed our corporate structure to best serve our clients by enhancing collaboration across our organization.

Real estate can have an enormous positive impact on people’s lives – and we’re in the business of making spaces and places work better for people. Our purpose is to create real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.

We care about each other and we have each other’s backs. This makes Avison Young a great place to be a client, and a great place to work. We support the whole person and their complete wellness – economic, mental and physical – because what’s best for our business comes from our people bringing their whole selves to work.

Of course we love it here, but outsiders think we’re pretty great too! Avison Young has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the 13th year in a row, with a Platinum Club designation!

Overview

The Senior Manager, Strategic Pursuits is responsible for leading business development support by establishing new business pursuit strategies that maximize “wins” and drive continuous improvement in the pursuit process. The ideal candidate has experience in project managing multi-service line pursuits, working across multiple markets and regions to produce technically complex proposals and presentations. Experience in commercial real estate is also a plus.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and drive the creation of new business pitch materials that reflect the brand while addressing specific clients’ needs
• Initiate and lead discussions with internal clients to drive a strategic approach to new business opportunities
• Manage the RFP response/proposal development process; includes assessing requirements, acquiring content from subject matter experts and team members, formulating clear and effective responses and complying with all solicitation requirements
• Drive the presentation development process; includes synthesizing a high volume of stakeholder inputs, defining a story framework, mapping content to key messages and directing data visualization
• Organize, attend and contribute to preparation meetings with principals, managing directors, senior-level brokerage professionals and subject matter experts to ensure alignment and responsiveness
• Develop proposal content through original writing and the adaption of pre-formulated content
• Develop customized presentation content to support key messaging at the new business pursuit level
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders, consulting, innovation, research, and marketing team members against strict deadlines
• Perform advanced document formatting and presentation design
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal direction to the satisfaction of internal clients
• Ensure strict adherence to quality control processes required to produce quality work product and timely delivery of submittals/deliverables
• Maintain an internal best-in-class library of creative marketing materials/approaches
• Track the results of and collect feedback for new business pursuits

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years of directly applicable experience in professional writing, business development or sales strategy
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, and experience in technical writing, English, journalism, or related profession
• Ability to organize use of time in a fast-paced environment, completing multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to listen in a way that builds and maintains rapport with internal and external clients
• Proficient in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint; working to strong knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience managing the sales pursuit process (i.e., RFPs, presentations)
• Ability to convey thoughts, ideas, recommendations and technical information in a clearly understood and concise manner
• Upholds the highest standards in spelling, grammar, syntax and style
• Hybrid writing style for technical and creative content development
• Strong proofreading/editing skills

Our Equal Opportunity Commitment

Avison Young practices as an equal opportunity employer in all services locations around the world. We are committed to building and maintaining a workforce diverse in experience, skills and knowledge with uniformity in service excellence, commitment and integrity.

The firm maintains a strict policy to ensure employment opportunities are equal and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, protected veteran or military service status, or any other elements protected by law.

Avison Young welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates during the recruitment process. For those requiring assistance, information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

Avison Young is committed to employing the best talent with the most fair and equitable recruitment practices. Apply with us TODAY!