Senior Bid Writer — Hybrid, Strategy & Solution Lead

EiB; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Group life assurance (x3 salary)

Pension scheme (5% employee + 5% EiB)

25 days holiday (30 with service)

Salary sacrifice scheme for lease cars

Additional annual leave options

Training & development (APMP)

Job summary

EiB is seeking a Senior Bid Writer to lead the development of complex technical and strategic bid responses, while supporting wider bid delivery, assurance and solution development. The role offers exposure to high-value opportunities and consulting support to clients across highways, rail, construction and renewables, with flexible office/home working in the UK and Europe.

You will articulate procurement requirements, shape themes and run win strategy workshops, guiding solution workshops and

Qualifications

• Degree educated or hold professional qualification in a relevant discipline.
• Experienced in developing complex technical or strategic bid responses in a professional services/consultancy; or within a Tier 1/2 major construction, contracting or maintenance environment.
• A strong communicator, with the ability to write succinctly and facilitate collaborative workshops with a range of contributors.
• Able to storyboard, draft, review and improve responses with limited supervision.
• Confident in challenging client and colleague inputs constructively.
• Able to use AI appropriately and effectively in proportion to the role.
• Experienced in coaching, mentoring or sharing knowledge with colleagues or client teams.
• Commercially aware and confident in building strong client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Own complex technical and strategic responses from storyboard through drafting, review and finalisation.
• Interpret procurement documents, evaluation criteria and client requirements, adapting the response approach to the opportunity.
• Lead or support review briefings and debriefs, resolve conflicting feedback and challenge drafts to improve quality.
• Translate agreed strategy into response-level outputs, themes and content requirements.
• Support and facilitate win strategy workshops.
• Use market, procurement and cross-sector insight to advise clients on their submissions and wider bidding approach.
• Interrogate requirements and client inputs to identify gaps, inconsistencies and areas requiring further development.
• Help clients develop tailored solutions, commitments and delivery models from the agreed strategy.
• Apply constructive challenge so client solutions are coherent, deliverable and aligned with evaluation criteria.
• Lead solution workshops and guide implementation of agreed win themes across relevant responses.
• Identify and progress opportunities to enhance or expand support for existing clients.
• Contribute to client meetings, account discussions, opportunity tracking and pipeline development.
• Build trusted client relationships and provide resilience to Key Account Management.
• Maintain mentoring relationships and support colleagues across projects.
• Provide practical upskilling to client teams during live projects.
• Promote consistent use of EiB methods across internal and client teams.

Skills

Strong communicator

Storyboarding

Workshop facilitation

Coaching/mentoring

AI usage

Client relationship building

Commercial awareness

Education

Degree educated or professional qualification

Job description

EiB is seeking a Senior Bid Writer to lead the development of complex technical and strategic bid responses, while supporting wider bid delivery, assurance and solution development. The role offers exposure to high-value opportunities and consulting support to clients across highways, rail, construction and renewables, with flexible office/home working in the UK and Europe.

You will articulate procurement requirements, shape themes and run win strategy workshops, guiding solution workshops and