Bid Writer (Healthcare)

Kainos; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A digital solutions company in Birmingham is seeking an experienced Bid Writer to produce high-quality content for bid responses in the Healthcare sector. You will work closely with sales leads and bid teams to ensure compliance with bid requirements and develop effective win themes. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience with IT bidding and brings strong communication and critical thinking skills to this dynamic role. The position allows for hybrid work arrangements with some travel necessary.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Diversity and inclusion programs

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a relevant commercial environment with IT bidding experience.
• Familiarity with technical details of modern digital services.
• Experience in writing customer proposals of significant scale.

Responsibilities

• Create compliant, submission-grade content for bid responses.
• Understand bid requirements and create response plans.
• Engage with SMEs for content through interviews.

Skills

Bid writing experience

Team motivation

Critical thinking

Excellent communication

Multi-tasking

Job description

Join Kainos and Shape the Future

At Kainos, we’re problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we’re transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting‑edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together.

We believe in a people‑first culture, where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration.

Ready to make your mark? Join us and be part of something bigger.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS

Our vision is to create a world‑class business development and marketing capability for Kainos, fuelled by a diverse range of highly talented and motivated professionals working collaboratively and innovatively to continue our growth trajectory.

We do this via an open and supportive environment where colleagues can share information, learn from one another and excel in their own career. With consistent ways of working aligned to industry best practice, we build sustainable and predictable sales pipelines for our market‑leading offerings.

As an experienced Bid Writer in the Healthcare sector of our Digital Services business, you will create compliant, submission‑grade content for bid responses, ensuring the high quality of our proposals to win new business. As a pivotal part of our pre‑sales function, you will collaborate closely with sales leads and bid teams to understand our clients real requirements, develop our win themes, author high‑scoring responses, and guide the team to a high quality, end‑to‑end proposal.

You will join our pre‑sales team as part of our sales community, where you will bring your analytical and authoring skills, together with a strong interest to further develop your industry knowledge. You will be joining a passionate and growing Healthcare sector team intent on transforming the industry through data, technology and responsible innovation, to help people live longer, healthier lives and unlock new clinical breakthroughs.

Based at home but required to travel to Kainos London and other locations whenever appropriate.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Understanding bid requirements, creating storyboards and producing response plans
• Ensuring compliance with bid requirements – ensuring adherence to the client’s formal procurement requirements and internal Kainos bidding processes, including completion of appropriate review processes.
• Applying win themes and following bid strategy – leveraging Kainos and our partner strengths, and understanding business and market intelligence in order to develop bid‑specific win themes.
• Fully answering questions – by writing, editing and reviewing submission responses drawing on contributions and collateral.
• Engaging with SMEs for content – through interviewing and knowledge elicitation sessions.
• Drafting content and editing
• Tracking and reporting progress – planning and managing all aspects of a coherent, high quality response including alignment with the Bid Manager to co‑ordinate bid team inputs, timeline and review activities.
• Contributing to bid productivity improvements – owning and driving bid production continuous improvement process initiatives, including AI tooling adoption, and cross‑sector collaboration.
• Upskilling people – training staff new to bid responses in best practice approaches, as well as educating and sharing knowledge with sales/account teams and customers in relation to bid production.

MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS

• We are looking for someone with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a relevant commercial environment with IT bidding experience and a sound awareness of current technology and business trends and their potential impact on sales opportunities.
• Some familiarity with the technical detail relating to the delivery of modern digital services (including bespoke software delivery, agile methodologies etc).
• Experience in bid writing of customer proposals of significant scale.
• Strong awareness and understanding as to what constitutes submission grade content.
• Highly capable of multi‑tasking and prioritising tasks with the ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines.
• We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability to motivate team members and lead by example is crucial.
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in mentoring and coaching colleagues and contributing to the wider community is important.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex proposals in a way that is succinct and easy to understand.
• Strong critical thinking skills to interpret and disaggregate often complex compound client bid questions to form clear, well‑structured responses.
• A self‑starter who is highly motivated and proactive with respect to personal development.
• A person who is affable, credible and enthusiastic who pride themselves on delivering high quality work.

DESIRABLE

• Understanding of IT procurement frameworks used in the UK Healthcare and Public Sector, such as Digital Capability for Health 2, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, and G‑Cloud.
• Hands‑on experience of having delivered digital services using Agile and user centred design methods.
• Familiarity with the UK Healthcare delivery landscape, including the organisational structure of the NHS and related healthcare bodies.
• Understanding of how Generative AI tooling can improve the efficiency of bid production without compromising the accuracy or integrity of responses.

WHO YOU ARE

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience.

These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

A BOUT US

At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier.

We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they work today and the impact they have tomorrow.

Our two specialist practices, Digital Services and Workday, work globally for clients across healthcare, commercial and the public sector to make the world a little bit better, day by day.

For more information, see kainos.com.

EMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are. We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field.

Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out.

We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.