Bid Writer

Arco; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with bonus

Up to 8% Arco Pension contributions

32 days holiday + 2 volunteering days

Option to purchase 5 extra days annual

Perkbox discounts + employee discount

Health Cash Plan

Learning resources and development

Long-service awards

Job summary

Arco is hiring a Bid Writer on a 6-month fixed-term contract in the UK. The role blends research, writing, and cross-functional collaboration to craft compelling tender submissions and improve win rates.

You will coordinate with sales and coding teams, ensuring timely, compliant responses while meeting bid requirements. The position is hybrid, offering flexibility to work from the office and remotely.

Qualifications

• Experience crafting tender responses that win business.
• Strong business and commercial acumen to inform submissions.
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders across the business.

Responsibilities

• Complete and submit high-quality tender responses to increase win rate.
• Coordinate coding and sales teams to ensure timely commercial responses.
• Develop compelling win themes with sales to inform submissions.
• Ensure responses address questions, meet bid requirements, and hit deadlines.
• Guide external sales through bid governance and qualification processes.
• Influence stakeholders to provide timely information for bids.
• Contribute to presentation materials for the pitch team.
• Conduct bid debriefs on won and lost opportunities.

Skills

Creative writing

Business acumen

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Organization

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About The Role

Do you love turning complex information into winning proposals? Join us at Arco as a Bid Writer, and play a key part in winning new business, shaping compelling submissions and helping drive our growth by turning expertise into opportunities.

As a Bid Writer, you’ll play an instrumental role in winning new business and retaining current customers by crafting high-quality responses to tenders to ensure that we keep improving our win-rate. You’ll communicate and collaborate with stakeholders across Arco utilising your strong business and commercial acumen to ensure that expert responses are created, and deadlines are met.

Our Bid Writer role is a 6-month fixed term contract and is a hybrid position, with 2 to 3 days a week working from the office and from home.

Key responsibilities include:

• Completing and submitting high-quality tender responses in order to increase business win rate
• Co-ordinating the coding and sales teams to ensure timely completion of the commercial response
• Developing compelling win themes in conjunction with the sales teams to inform a compelling tender submission
• Ensuring all responses ‘answer the question’, meet the requirements of the bid and hit submission deadlines
• Guiding the external sales force through the bid process, advising on bid governance, bid qualification and best practice
• Influencing key stakeholders in the wider business to provide timely responses to information requests as bid requirements dictate
• Contributing to the production of presentation documentation for the pitch team
• Conducting bid debriefs on both won and lost opportunities in conjunction with the Bid and Sales teams

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

• Competitive salary plus bonus
• Up to 8% Arco Pension contributions and Life Assurance worth 4 times your salary
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays plus 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
• Opportunity to purchase 5 additional days annual leave each calendar year (subject to qualifying salary)
• Access to hundreds of discounts through Perkbox, plus receive employee discount on Arco products
• Health Cash Plan that allows you to reclaim costs for everyday health expenses such as dental treatment, eye tests and physiotherapy
• Access learning resources, qualifications and development opportunities to help you grow, progress and achieve your career ambitions
• Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

The ideal Bid Writer will be/have:

• The ability to create innovative, creative, and aesthetically pleasing tender responses
• Strong business and commercial acumen
• Highly organised, with ability to manage tight deadlines and excellent attention to detail
• A strong communicator with the ability to multi-task and work effectively under pressure
• Advanced Microsoft Office knowledge essential
• Experience of creative writing or similar would be ideal but is not essential

About Us

With a proud 140-year legacy, you’ll be part of something special when you join the UK’s leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, Arco’s size, scale and reputation are why we have such an impressive portfolio of satisfied customers.

It’s an exciting time for us, and whatever your role, you’ll play a part in Arco’s journey to become more profitable and sustainable. To drive a performance culture, we consistently invest in our people to ensure we push for shared success. We respect and value everyone’s unique skills, experience, and ideas so you’ll have ample opportunity to help shape our future growth and be rewarded for delivering against our targets.

At Arco, inclusion means ensuring everyone feels valued, respected and able to be their best. We celebrate the unique skills, experiences and perspectives each colleague brings, and we’re committed to creating a supportive environment where everyone can thrive.

As part of our journey to everyday inclusion, we recognise that individual needs may vary.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support during the recruitment process, please let us know.

Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.