Bid Writer / Business Development Manager

Aspire; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is looking for a Bid Writer / Business Development Manager to lead high-quality bids in the public sector market. This hybrid role based in Greater Manchester requires strong writing capabilities, excellent coordination skills, and experience in managing bids for Employment, Justice, Health, and Business Support contracts. The successful candidate will collaborate with various teams to produce compliant and competitive proposals. If you're ready to take on this challenge, apply with your CV today.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing and writing bids for Employment, Justice, Health, and Business Support contracts.
• Expertise in leading storyboarding, drafting, and review processes.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the production of high-quality bid responses.
• Manage EOIs, SQs, ITTs, and proposals within tight deadlines.
• Provide challenge and feedback to improve quality of written responses.
• Monitor market intelligence to identify upcoming opportunities.

Skills

Bid writing capability

Coordination skills

Strong written communication

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Public sector procurement understanding

Microsoft Office proficiency

Job description

Bid Writer / Business Development Manager

Bid Writer / Business Development Manager
Hybrid / Greater Manchester
Up to £55,000
Full-time, Permanent

The Role

A key opportunity to lead and deliver high-quality bids across major public sector markets. The role focuses on managing written submissions, shaping compelling proposals and coordinating activity across internal teams to produce clear, compliant and competitive responses.

You must have significant experience managing and writing bids for Employment, Justice, Health and Business Support contracts. This role requires strong bid writing capability, excellent coordination skills and the confidence to guide colleagues through storyboarding, drafting and review processes.

Duties

• Lead the production of high-quality bid responses that achieve strong scoring outcomes.
• Manage EOIs, SQs, ITTs and proposals within tight deadlines.
• Lead storyboarding and draft responses aligned to specifications and scoring criteria.
• Work with business units, solution design, supply chain and finance to shape submissions.
• Provide challenge and feedback to improve the quality of written responses.
• Oversee bid activity through all stages, ensuring high standards and compliance.
• Support presentations, supplier meetings and early engagement activity.
• Maintain and improve bid documentation, templates and best practice resources.
• Monitor market intelligence to identify upcoming opportunities.

Required Skills

• Proven experience managing and writing bids for Employment, Justice, Health and Business Support.
• Strong written communication and editing skills.
• Confident leading storyboarding, drafting and review processes.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Skilled in working with colleagues and stakeholders across multiple teams.
• Strong analytical skills with close attention to detail.
• Good understanding of public sector procurement and tendering portals.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

If this sounds like the perfect role for you then please submit your CV. This vacancy is being handled by Aspire Recruitment. Please be aware we receive a high volume of applications and regularly receive applications from candidates who exceed the job credentials. We will only contact you within the next 14 days if you are selected for interview. Should you apply for this role, we will process your data as detailed in our