Bid Writer

Netwerkplan; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative and progressive multi-billion facilities management organization is seeking a Bid Writer to enhance the quality and quantity of bids. This role is pivotal in driving successful tender documentation and offers significant career development opportunities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in bid writing, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively across teams. Join a company that values employee growth and offers a supportive environment where your contributions will directly impact the success of the organization. If you are driven, detail-oriented, and ready to take on new challenges, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Excellent Bonus

Mobile Phone

Laptop

Excellent Company Pension

Great Company Benefits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in bid writing or management is essential.
• Fluency in English is critical for effective communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage the bid writing process from start to finish, ensuring high-quality submissions.
• Collaborate with various teams to gather necessary information for bids.

Skills

Bid Writing

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Proactive Attitude

Team Collaboration

Writing Skills

Ability to Interpret Complex Documents

Education

Relevant Professional Experience in Bid Writing or Management

Fluency in English

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Desktop Publishing Packages

Job description

Title: Bid Writer / Bid Writing / Bid Manager / Bid Management

Location: HOME BASED

Salary: Highly Competitive Salary + Excellent Bonus + Mobile + Laptop + Excellent Company Pension + Great Company Benefits

Organisation: A highly reputable progressive, modern and innovative Multi £Billion Facilities Management organisation operating across the UK. Providing a steep growth trajectory and offering a huge spectrum of hard and soft FM services.

A Bid Writer position within a modern, successful organisation, working on complex bidding solutions. Huge opportunity for career development and progressed opportunity within a business offering longevity and a well cultured employee orientated environment.

The person:

A motivated professional with excellent interpersonal skills, and proposals/bid writing experience to work within the Bid Management division putting forward high-quality submissions from start to finish.

Job purpose:

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly capable individual to help us in increasing the quality and quantity of bids and to drive successful delivery of all tender documentation. This role will require a highly motivated professional with excellent interpersonal and writing skills who will work on the bid process from start to finish.

This role will suit someone with bid writing experience. The successful candidate will have a substantial proficiency in bid writing and/or bid management.

Bid duties would include:

1. Full Bid Writing responsibility, however you will be involved with other contracts and proposals.
2. Collateral development - writing/editing input from a variety of stakeholders typically involving contributions from sales, marketing and operations.
3. Maintain a good working knowledge of the company business practices and standards to ensure an appreciation of the broad scope of knowledge and content required to satisfactorily respond to tenders.
4. Writing the bids, including ITT (invitation to tender), PQQ (Pre-Qualifying Questionnaires).
5. Attend meetings via Teams as required with the Business Development team to agree strategy, content and actions.
6. Collate data for and complete RFI's (Return For Information), PQQ's (Pre-Qualification Questionnaire), ITT's (Instructions to Tender) and RFQ's (Request For Quotation) etc. within defined deadlines and to a high quality.
7. Work with the team to create and produce winning, compelling, professional and high quality tenders, proposals and reports within defined deadlines.
8. Creation of presentations to a high standard.
9. Maintain and have working knowledge of tender submissions.
10. Create letters and reports as required.
11. Input to post tender presentations and negotiations from a writing perspective.
12. Review, edit and write material for case studies/data sheets.
13. Ensure all tender submissions, clarifications, presentations and other proposals are submitted within required timelines, holding individual team members accountable as required.
14. Communicate with the bid library manager on the development and maintenance of a bid library.
15. Adhere to all Company policies, procedures and business ethics codes.

Additional Responsibilities:

1. Proofreading all documentation written by yourself or others either in the bid team or provided from internal or external sources by way of quality management and consistent improvement of the bid functions output.
2. Production and delivery of high-quality bid documentation in line with the companies’ internal requirements and additionally ensuring all end-client requirements and specifications with regards to the bid writing have been met.
3. Liaising with sales team, finance officers, legal department, HR team, management etc. to prepare project budgets, schedule, costs, management structures and work package description.
4. Supporting the organising of evaluation and sign off on the prepared documentation before submitting to the customer.
5. Reviewing and monitoring bidding progress and resolving/escalating issues and problems.
6. Success in writing documentation for successful bids, tenders, proposals or presentations.
7. Professional writing skills with a proven experience of understanding bid procedures and responding to tenders and framework bids.
8. Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Office suite, and other desktop publishing packages with the ability to produce/edit presentations, tenders, proposals documents.
9. An excellent communicator with the ability to confidently liaise and influence across all levels of the business, with clients and other partners, and is not afraid to ask for information when it is required.
10. Highly organised with the ability to work effectively with team and independently to defined deadlines.
11. The ability to work effectively under pressure to deliver to high quality submissions in line with the tender submission deadlines.
12. Strong attention to detail and a high level of focus on the achievement of the teams bid targets.
13. Maintain professional internal and external relationships that meet Company core values.
14. Previous experience is desirable; however, full training will be provided. You will need to present and conduct yourself in a professional, courteous and appropriate manner in accordance with the Company policies, procedures, guidelines and values.
15. Relevant professional experience in bid writing or bid management or highly allied experience.
16. Experience in the facilities management industry is highly advantageous, however all industry experience within the bid writing/bid management sector will be considered.
17. Fluency in spoken and written English is essential.

Skills and Abilities:

1. Ability to interpret complex documents.
2. Proactive with intuition.
3. Ability to motivate and work as part of a team / communicate with additional teams internally and externally.
4. High quality, clear and concise writing style.
5. Strong interpersonal skills.
6. Excellent communication skills.
7. Organised and self-motivated to produce high quality results.
8. Strong attention to details.

Send your CV for immediate consideration and interview.