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This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role at the heart of our business as Bid Writer crafting compelling and persuasive responses for our tender opportunities. In this role you will be working alongside key stakeholders in the business utilising your expertise in Bid/Tender writing using your skills and experience within our Business Development team.

As a Bid Writer, you’ll get to:

• Work with the bid team during Request for Information (RFI), Pre-Qualification Questions (PQQ) and Invitation to Tender (ITT) phases to develop clear win strategies for each bid, ensuring compelling win themes.
• Review all tender documents and resources before bid launch meetings.
• Support the Tender Manager in producing high-quality tender submissions to achieve business growth in alignment with corporate strategies.
• Liaise with nominated subject matter experts internally and analyse data externally (from published reports, local strategy document and other publicly available data) during tender phases to gather information relevant to each submission to enable strong responses to be drafted for each bid being pursued.
• Collaborate with central departments e.g. Operations, SHEQ, Transport and Human Resources to fulfil and develop gaps in tender question areas, data and metrics.
• Write compelling narrative and skilfully draft professional submission responses that fulfil scoring criteria, always ensuring the drafted response is based on a solid understanding of the needs and wants of the target audience.
• Review client feedback and identify inadequacies to implement lessons learnt for future bids

Qualifications & Experience

• Demonstrable experience of successful bid writing, ideally in the plant hire, construction, civil engineering, water or engineering industries
• Ability to interpret and analyse tender request documents to identify criteria relevant to the bid or tender opportunity.
• Highly organised, with good planning and prioritising skills and the ability to deliver quality work to meet strict deadlines.
• Excellent writing, editing and proof-reading skills.
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Experience of procurement platforms such as, Achillies, Ariba and Jaggaer Bravo Solutions
• Proficient in the use of AI software such as Copilot, ChatGPT.
• A current Full UK Driving Licence is preferred for this role.

What we can offer you

We understand balancing work and life commitments isn’t always easy, that’s why we’ve designed our benefits package to support you in all areas of life.

• Eligible for company bonus scheme (annual and quarterly payments)
• Medicash Scheme – medical expenses scheme (access to 24hour online GP services, discounted gym memberships)
• Bupa Private Medical at Single level
• Pension scheme with contribution based on total earnings not just salary
• 25 days holiday + 8 Bank Holidays
• Increasing annual leave entitlement with long service
• 3x your annual salary life insurance (DIS)
• Support for development and training
• Employee assistance programme (EAP) & access to Mental Health first aiders
• Employee discount scheme (discounts/vouchers for supermarkets, high street shops, holidays and more)
• Hybrid working (i.e., 2 working from home and 3 in the office) pattern.