Bid Lead

Accurx; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: £70,000–£90,000

Discretionary bonus

Equity options: £30,000

Office-first culture

Regular hackathons

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Parental support

Free healthy meals

Job summary

Accurx seeks a Bid Lead to drive primary care bid strategy across NHS opportunities, shaping capture and win themes while leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, compliant responses for multi-million-pound tenders.

You’ll align NHS priorities with Accurx’s commercial approach, manage risks, and ensure timely submissions. APMP certification and public procurement experience are highly valued, with exposure to SaaS or digital health projects.

Qualifications

• APMP certification or equivalent bid expertise.
• Experience leading multiple complex, high-value tenders in the public sector.
• Strong writing and reviewing skills with a focus on compliant submissions.
• Ability to coordinate large cross-functional teams to tight deadlines.
• Good working knowledge of NHS procurement and public procurement frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Capture: shape opportunities 6–12 months before release with regional insight.
• Decide where we can win, building a clear strategy for each bid.
• Lead multiple complex bids start-to-finish, owning plan, governance, risks and deadlines.
• Turn impact into compelling responses with win themes and evidence.
• Drive continuous improvement by feeding back learnings to future bids.

Skills

APMP cert

Bid management

Strong writer

Influence leadership

Attention to detail

Public procurement

Clinical workflows

Job description

Accurx is solving healthcare productivity for the NHS.

For decades, the NHS has struggled with fragmented systems that make simple tasks feel impossible. At Accurx, we’re changing that by building a single, system-wide platform that helps every patient get gold-standard, efficient, and joined-up care.

What started as a way for GPs to text a patient has now evolved into an all-in-one digital toolkit used by 98% of GP practices.

Our platform now powers Total Triage to manage patient demand, and Self-Book , Patient Questionnaires for long-term conditions, while Accumail finally allows staff-to-staff communication to happen instantly across different care settings. We’re now pushing the boundaries of the consultation itself with Accurx Scribe , our AI-powered note-taker that drafts medical notes in real-time.

We’re not just shipping features. We’re giving clinicians their time back and ensuring every patient journey is as smooth as it should be.

How you’ll drive Accurx’s primary care bid strategy

The Bid Lead is the strategic lead for each bid they own, from early capture to post-award handover. They set the bid's direction and win strategy and lead the cross-functional team that delivers it. They bring capture and bid expertise to produce outstanding responses to multi-million-pound tenders. They also lead Accurx's work on frameworks in their portfolio.

The role will lead Accurx's responses to trust-wide and/or ICB primary care bids.

• Capture. You’ll shape our biggest primary care opportunities 6–12 months before release, working with opportunity owners and regional teams to build account insight, influence early engagement and turn customer needs into distinctive win themes.

• Decide where we can win — and how. You’ll lead qualification and go / no-go decisions, bringing together NHS priorities, ICB needs, Accurx’s strategy and the commercial approach to build a clear strategy for winning each opportunity.

• Lead multiple complex bids from start to finish. You’ll bring together and motivate cross-functional teams, owning the plan, governance, risks and deadlines from kick-off through to submission, presentations and handover — while keeping stakeholders informed along the way.

• Turn our impact into responses that stand out. Working closely with the Bid Writer / Manager, you’ll set the win themes, key messages and evidence for each response, lead quality reviews and make sure every submission is compelling, compliant and commercially sound.

• Make every bid strengthen the next one. You’ll turn feedback, wins and losses into better content and ways of working, strengthen our position on the frameworks used to buy primary care digital services, and use tools including AI thoughtfully to make our capture and bid processes more effective.

You should apply if...

• You have APMP certification (Foundation or above) and/or equivalent proven bid expertise , with extensive experience leading multiple complex, high-value public sector tenders at the same time.

• You’re experienced in capture and pursuit management , with a track record of shaping opportunities before release, uncovering customer drivers and turning insight into clear pursuit and win strategies.

• You’re an excellent writer and reviewer , able to turn complex requirements, evidence and customer needs into compelling responses, with a strong focus on exceeding evaluation criteria and delivering high-quality, compliant submissions.

• You’re confident leading through influence , coordinating large cross-functional teams to tight deadlines, managing competing priorities and risks, and having difficult conversations when needed.

• You’re a detail-oriented completer-finisher with a strong working knowledge of public procurement, including the Procurement Act 2023, the Social Value Model and frameworks.

• You understand clinical systems and workflows and can clearly explain how technology fits into them. For this role, that includes how Accurx works with GP clinical systems such as EMIS and SystmOne, and how it fits into practice and PCN workflows, including integration and hosting.

• Ideally, you’ve bid into NHS primary care, ICBs or CSUs and understand general practice, PCN operations and how digital primary care is commissioned. Experience leading bids for SaaS or digital transformation solutions would also be a strong advantage.

What’s in it for you?

You’ll join a high-performing team on a mission to solve healthcare productivity, building a platform used by around 300k NHS staff every week, supporting the care of over 50 million NHS patients every year. We set a high bar, move fast, and give people the ownership and support to do the best work of their careers

• £70,000 - £90,000 salary, plus a discretionary recognition bonus for exceptional performance and impact, nominated by managers and awarded by our leadership team

• Equity: £30,000 in equal share options, so you share in the value you help create

• Benefits to suit you: adjust your healthcare cover, your pension or life insurance, whatever stage you’re at in life

• Built for collaboration: We are an office-first culture and ask that you’re in our (dog-friendly) Shoreditch office for a minimum of 3 days a week

• Close to our users: Regular hackathons, plus dedicated time to visit GP practices and other healthcare settings to see first-hand how our products are used

• Time off: You’ll get 28 days of holiday (plus bank holidays) and up to 4 weeks to work from anywhere per year

• Support at home: We offer enhanced parental leave, fertility support and parental loss support

• We have our very own chefs: Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches, plus a weekly sweet treat