Project Pursuit Manager

Why This Role Matters

The Project Pursuit Manager serves as the strategic connector between people, process, and opportunity. By aligning estimating, scheduling, proposal development, operations, partners, and designers, this role plays a critical part in maximizing pursuit success and helping Amico secure and deliver transformative infrastructure projects.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys bringing teams together, developing winning strategies, and driving complex pursuits from concept to contract award.

This position is a new role. 

Responsibilities

You will lead the planning, coordination, and execution of major pursuits, including:

• Managing the overall pursuit process from opportunity assessment through to final submission and client presentations.
• Serving as the primary coordinator between estimating, scheduling, operations, engineering, proposal development, and executive leadership teams.
• Leading pursuits where Amico is acting as the prime contractor, part of a joint venture, or in collaboration with external design consultants and strategic partners.
• Facilitating pursuit planning sessions, win strategy workshops, risk reviews, and coordination meetings to ensure alignment across all stakeholders.
• Developing and maintaining pursuit schedules, responsibility matrices, action logs, and milestone plans to ensure successful execution.
• Working closely with estimating teams to coordinate pricing strategies, commercial approaches, and key differentiators.
• Collaborating with schedulers to develop construction methodologies, phasing plans, schedule narratives, and project delivery strategies that strengthen the overall submission.
• Coordinating the integration of technical, commercial, operational, and design inputs into a cohesive and compelling pursuit strategy.
• Supporting the development of proposal content, executive summaries, interview materials, technical submissions, and presentation strategies.
• Identifying pursuit risks, opportunities, and gaps while proactively driving solutions to maintain progress and competitiveness.
• Managing collaboration with external partners, joint venture organizations, designers, consultants, and subject matter experts throughout the pursuit process.
• Ensuring all submission requirements are met through rigorous compliance reviews and quality assurance processes.
• Monitoring pursuit performance metrics and providing regular updates to leadership regarding progress, risks, and critical decisions.
• Supporting post-submission activities, including interviews, clarifications, presentations, client debriefs, and lessons-learned initiatives.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of pursuit management processes, tools, templates, and best practices across the organization.
• Support or lead technical narrative development
• Support ongoing project with any technical or pursuit requirements
• Perform any other duties as assigned from time to time.

In addition to leading or assisting individual pursuits, you will help foster a culture of collaboration and excellence by mentoring team members and strengthening the organization's overall pursuit capabilities.

Qualifications

• Completed post-secondary education in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Business, Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Minimum five years of experience leading major pursuits, proposals, estimating coordination, project strategy, or business development activities within the construction or infrastructure industry.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, including RFQs, RFPs, progressive delivery models, design-build, CM, alliance, and joint venture pursuits.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams across estimating, scheduling, operations, engineering, and proposal functions.
• Proven ability to develop and execute pursuit strategies that align technical, commercial, and operational objectives.
• Strong knowledge of construction planning, project delivery methodologies, risk management, and scheduling principles.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse teams.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent pursuits and competing priorities.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and familiarity with proposal, scheduling (ex. P6), estimating, engineering (ex. BlueBeam Revu) and project management tools.
• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with strong leadership, critical thinking, and decision-making abilities.
• Experience working with joint venture partners, design consultants, and external stakeholders on large-scale infrastructure projects is considered an asset.

About Us

Come Build Your Career at Amico 

Amico delivers complex and impactful infrastructure projects that help communities grow, move and thrive. From highways and bridges to transit and residential and commercial environments, our work strengthens Ontario’s communities and helps build a more connected future. 

As a Canadian-owned and operated construction company, Amico brings together expertise in general contracting, civil engineering and road building to deliver projects of significant scale and complexity. Through careful planning, innovative thinking and disciplined execution, we work alongside our clients and partners to create infrastructure that will serve communities for generations. 

At Amico, our people are at the heart of our success. As one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, we are proud to be recognized for the strength of our leadership, culture and commitment to continuous improvement. We foster a collaborative, inclusive and performance-driven environment where employees are empowered to contribute their expertise, take on meaningful challenges and continue developing their careers.

About the TeamAmico fosters diversity, inclusion and belonging within and across our organization. We welcome all to apply, including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. We also recognize that experience and potential are not always reflected by a checklist. If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every listed requirement, we encourage you to apply as your skills, perspective and experience may make you a strong fit for this role or another opportunity.