Senior Bid Writer

CLC; Stratford-upon-Avon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading national property maintenance specialist is seeking a Bid Writer to join their expanding team. This role involves managing the tender process, writing compelling bids, and collaborating with various teams to deliver high-quality submissions. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of experience, especially in social housing or construction, and possess excellent written communication skills.

Benefits

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Life Insurance

Income protection

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience in Bid Writing.
• Experience in the social housing or construction sector.
• Experience in a business to business or Public-Sector environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage the bid process from start to finish.
• Write and edit tender bids to agreed deadlines.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and policies.

Skills

Bid Writing

Interpersonal Skills

Advanced Written Communication

Time Management

Attention to Detail

Tools

IT Skills

Job description

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Axis Europe and CLC have recently merged, creating an exciting opportunity to join our expanding business. This merger combines two highly complementary companies with similar cultures and experienced teams, forming a leading national property maintenance specialist. We deliver essential services across a range of large and growing markets, including social housing, local government, healthcare, education, defence, utilities, and hospitality.

Our group offers an unparalleled range of services, including planned maintenance, responsive maintenance, fire protection, electrical services, decarbonisation, energy efficiency, and refurbishment. With nationwide coverage and enhanced expertise, we provide significant benefits to our clients. The growth opportunities for our business are immense, and as a result, we are expanding our bid team.

JOB PURPOSE:

To support the development of new business and new opportunities through the tender process. You’ll be part of a team responsible for delivering industry leading bids.

The ideal candidate for this job should be able to write effective, concise and compelling content and be able to work under pressure associated with deadlines. An experienced individual, with social housing planned and responsive experience, whose commitment to delivering a high-quality service will drive best practice and continuous improvements into the bid process. As a senior member of the team, you’ll work on business-critical submissions, collaborating with business leaders to create winning strategies that you’ll translate into winning bids.

The successful candidate will work closely with directors, operational specialists, technical leads to create high-impact responses that clearly respond to our clients’ needs. As well as writing they will manage the process from beginning to end. They will be responsible for ensuring our written responses are bespoke and score highly against marking criteria. They will be confident to give and receive feedback on written content, as they collaborate to win work and support the team’s overall development and learning.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Take full responsibility for bids, including planning the bid, hosting Kick off meetings, planning and coordinating the written response documentation and sharing knowledge throughout the company
• Disseminate/extract technical information and write in plain, well written English
• Write and edit quality tender bids to agreed deadlines
• Defining win strategy with the business
• Providing clients with high quality documents, attentive to their needs
• Ensure document content is compliant and validated to meet legislation, procedures, products, solutions and policies
• Complete responses to Pre-qualification, Tender, Approved List and RFI (Request for Information) tender documents from prospective customers
• Maintain and develop an up-to-date tender information library
• Proofread responses for accuracy
• Maintain an active log of all tender opportunities and the response progress.
• Update CRM Sales system to reflect progress/completion
• Develop and maintain a good working relationship with the business units.

In addition to the above day to day bidding activities you’ll also be responsible for:

• Leading on continuous improvement projects and activities for the team
• Build specialised sector knowledge and support in upskilling the team
• Mentoring less experienced team members
• Completing peer bid reviews.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:

• Must have experience in Bid Writing (minimum 5 years)
• Experience in the social housing or other construction sector

• Must have experience in a business to business or Public-Sector environment
• Must have very strong interpersonal skills, at all levels of management

• Must have excellent experience of writing business context and advanced written communication skills
• Ability to interpret tender request information and design the appropriate response
• Accurate proof reading
• Must have Excellent all-round IT skills
• Organised with good time management skills
• Thorough with excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Job Type:Full-time, Permanent

Hours:40 hours each week, Monday to Friday, 8am – 5 pm

In return we offer

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Bonus scheme
• Pension scheme
• Life Insurance
• Income protection

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sectors of the community