Tender Writer - Construction & Infrastructure

STRABAG; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

STRABAG in the United Kingdom is seeking a Bid Writer to develop high-quality, compliant tender content and supporting evidence for proposals. You will work under Pre-Construction/Bid Managers and collaborate closely with technical SMEs to deliver compelling, customer-focused submissions.

You will manage writing workloads, apply rigorous question analysis, and contribute to post-tender reviews, ensuring alignment with client requirements, scoring criteria and company standards across tenders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience writing and structuring compliant tender content within construction, engineering, or infrastructure.
• Proven ability to absorb, analyse and structure complex information and translate it into compelling customer-focused responses.
• Strong collaborative and communication skills, with a proven ability to build effective relationships with technical and operational teams.
• Strong organisation skills with a track record of managing workloads to hit internal intermediate deadlines.
• Excellent written English, grammar, sentence structure, and meticulous attention to layout detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (Word, PowerPoint), SharePoint, MS Teams and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
• APMP Foundation Certification or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality PQQ and tender responses, bid specific case studies and supporting evidence through question analysis, answer planning, writing, and editing.
• Conducting detailed question analysis and developing clear response plans that address client requirements, scoring criteria, evaluation methodologies and preferences.
• Researching and interviewing technical, operational and business function experts to gather information and translate complex project and technical information into clear, persuasive and customer-focused responses.
• Working collaboratively with subject matter experts (SMEs) and other contributors to develop content that is well structured, easy to understand, aligned with customer terminology and consistent with company brand.
• Supporting win strategy, win-theme, storyboarding and writing workshops, contributing ideas and evidence to the development of the overall bid narrative.
• Participating in internal review meetings and responding constructively to editorial feedback, incorporating agreed review comments to improve written content.
• Managing own writing workload and allocated responses to meet internal review milestones and final submission deadlines.
• Contributing to continuous improvement by sharing knowledge and best practice, maintaining high-quality content within work-winning libraries, and participating in post-tender reviews and lessons learned.

Skills

Tender writing

Content structuring

Stakeholder collaboration

Time management

English writing

Education

APMP Foundation Certification

Degree-level qualification (Business/Engineering/Construction/English)

Tools

MS Word

SharePoint

MS Teams

Adobe Acrobat Pro

Job description

STRABAG in the United Kingdom is seeking a Bid Writer to develop high-quality, compliant tender content and supporting evidence for proposals. You will work under Pre-Construction/Bid Managers and collaborate closely with technical SMEs to deliver compelling, customer-focused submissions.

You will manage writing workloads, apply rigorous question analysis, and contribute to post-tender reviews, ensuring alignment with client requirements, scoring criteria and company standards across tenders.