Bid Writer

Fawkes and Reece; Wigan; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Social Housing Contractor is seeking a Bid Writer to join their growing team. The successful candidate will be responsible for writing a variety of proposals and assisting with bid strategies. This role offers career development opportunities and a chance to impact the expansion of the bid department within the company.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years experience in a similar role.
• Experience in Construction/Social Housing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Writing tender quality proposals and pre-qualification proposals.
• Assisting with bid strategy to achieve success rates.
• Maintaining best practice library of submissions and competitor information.

Skills

Writing company submissions

Bid strategy assistance

Best practice maintenance

Job description

Reference: VAC-331553_1751981344
Posted: July 8, 2025

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 decarbonisation/retrofit and are a leader in their field. Due to growth, they are looking to appoint a Bid Writer to work alongside an established team, including; Head of Bid, a Bid Coordinator and another Bid Wrtier.

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
• 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 £35-40k + benefits, including a discretionary annual bonus.

Please note, this is an office based role with no home working.

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

If you're interested in having a conversation regarding this position, please send your CV to Stephanie at Fawkes & Reece.