
Bid Writer
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Bid experience from large construction, engineering, and infrastructure projects; rail, road, energy, tunnelling, utilities
- Bid writing experience, including experience from public sector bids, delivering high-quality narrative to deadlines
- Good communication/presentation/formatting skills
- Proven ability to absorb, analyse and structure complex information, identify & articulate win strategies
- Good research skills - ability to summarise key messages
- Office 365 proficiency, particularly MS Word and PowerPoint
- Good organisational / time management skills
- Excellent written English, proofreading skills, with attention to detail
- Ideally degree level educated or equivalent
- Delivering high-quality PQQs and tender responses, bid specific case studies and evidence through answer planning, writing, and editing.
- Supporting win strategy/win theme sessions, storyboarding, and writing workshops as required.
- Delivering question analysis and response plans, considering scoring criteria and client preferences
- Working with subject matter experts to develop drafts into customer-focussed responses that are well-structured clear and easy to understand, aligned with customer terminology, consistent with company brand.
- Facilitating review meetings, whilst considering review comments to enhance quality bid content.
- Ensuring completion of narrative meets internal / external deadlines at every stage of bid process.
- Conducting research, interviewing technical, operational, and business function experts, gathering information from a wide range of sources and stakeholders.
- Sharing knowledge and best practice across the business, contributing to post-tender reviews and lessons learnt to enable continuous improvement.