Bid Writer

Fawkes & Reece London; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Fawkes & Reece London is recruiting a Bid Writer to lead the bid function for a growing Social Housing contractor. The role focuses on writing company submissions, tender proposals, and information documents for Local Authorities and Housing Associations.

The successful candidate will collaborate with Estimating and Operations, set up best-practice libraries, and contribute to bid strategy to improve win rates. Hybrid work with 2–3 days in the Oldham office.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in a similar bid/writing role, ideally within Construction/Social Housing.
• Experience writing tender quality proposals, pre-qualification proposals, and expressions of interest documents.
• Collaborate with Estimating and Operations teams and maintain a library of submissions.

Responsibilities

• Writing company submissions including tender quality proposals, pre-qualification proposals, expression of interest proposals and customer information documents
• Assisting with the bid strategy to achieve an excellent success rate for company bids by identifying winning themes
• Collaborating with other departments such as the Estimating team and Operations team as required
• Set up/maintain best practice library of company submissions, competitor information, performance case studies, procurement/market developments/success/conversion rates
• Provide information as required to the Client's procurement knowledge centre

Skills

Bid writing

Tender submissions

Job description

About the role - Bid Writer

This is an exciting opportunity for a Bid Writer to join a leading Social Housing Contractor who are an experiencing an exciting period of growth. The company specialise in planned refurbishment work to tenanted Social Housing properties. They work with a number of Local Authorities and Housing Associations across the North West and Yorkshire regions.

Due to growth, they are looking to appoint a Bid Writer to lead their bid function.

The position offers a lot of career development alongside the opportunity to have a real impact on the development and growth of a bid department within a rapidly expanding company.

What will you be responsible for?

• Writing company submissions including tender quality proposals, pre-qualification proposals, expression of interest proposals and customer information documents
• Assisting with the bid strategy to achieve an excellent success rate for company bids by identifying winning themes
• Collaborating with other departments such as the Estimating team and Operations team as required.
• Set up/maintain best practice library of company submissions, competitor information, performance case studies, procurement/market developments/success/conversion rates
• Provide information as required to the Client's procurement knowledge centre

Package on offer for the Bid Writer role:

You will be compensated with a basic salary of 45-50k + benefits. Please note this salary may be negotiable for the right candidate.

This is a hybrid role with the requirement for 2/3 days in the Oldham offices, and then home working offered on the remaining days.

The successful candidate will have at least 2 years experience in a similar role, ideally within Construction/Social Housing.