Medical Writer jobs in United Kingdom

Hybrid - attached to either our Solihull, London or Hook office (regular UK travel for meetings)

Full Time, Permanent

Salary - Up to £45k dependant on experience

Are you passionate about the services that we deliver but interested in other ways you can support our communities and meet business objectives?

Our newly centralised Bid Writing team are looking for passionate individuals who have firsthand working knowledge of our business sectors to help us develop an in-depth understanding of our proposed solutions and produce quality bids that meet our customer's brief.

Join Serco's UK&E Growth team as a Bid Writer and articulate detailed information to secure impactful government contracts. Drawing on your strengths in writing and collaborating with colleagues, you'll provide professional and high-quality support for bids vital in delivering our strategic ambitions. Compiling knowledge and workstreams in a coherent and customer‑centric manner for bids in the UK, you'll play a valuable role in effectively communicating our winning propositions and solutions.

Being a part of our forward‑thinking team, you will have access to progressive technologies such as Autogen AI, to support you in the production of written responses, storyboards, and other bidding collateral!

As well as the satisfaction of working on (and of course winning!) contracts that directly impact public service users, you'll also benefit from an environment that firmly sets the stage for your own career development and progression. Whether you want to specialise, progress upwards into Bid Management or Business Development, or broaden your career into a Sales, Operations, Project Management, Commercial or Solutions role - there will be plenty of opportunities to keep growing! We offer a wide portfolio of career paths, with the right training and development in place so you can keep hitting your goals.

• Craft high-quality bid proposals for bids of various sizes and complexities, both for individual bids and entire portfolios.
• Collaborate with the bid team to create storyboards and ensure they guide bid creation.
• Partner with subject matter experts (SMEs) to translate solutions into clear and compelling information for bid responses.
• Develop winning bid responses: You'll write well‑structured, accurate, concise, and visually engaging content that effectively conveys the message, meets customer requirements (including word count, presentation, and evaluation criteria), and achieves high scores.
• Conduct additional research to supplement responses, including gathering and presenting relevant data.
• Incorporate persuasive elements such as win themes, USPs, sales messages, case studies, and insightful commentary on current trends into your writing.
• Ensure consistent language quality across bids by maintaining a unified terminology, tone, and style throughout submissions.

• Experience of managing a varied set of deliverables.
• Ability to write to a very high level (fluency, accuracy, correct messaging).
• Highly competent in Microsoft Office software
• Experience of other tools and applications such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Project, Visio, etc. would be advantageous but not essential
• Ability to quickly grasp and assimilate complex information and apply creative intellect.
• Methodical, process‑driven and organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to multi‑task and prioritise, particularly in a time‑sensitive environment.

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Annual leave purchase scheme.
• Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Flexible working options.
• A Serco benefits portal offering a wide range of discounts for major high street brands in Retail, Leisure & Hospitality.
• A range of benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Health Cash Plans, free flu jabs and more.
• A wealth of career development training to suit your future aspirations. These range from role specific training, leadership coaching, formal study and much more to support you to build your career with Serco.
• A safe and supportive culture.
• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion.

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks - SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leaderemployers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the Ban the Box' pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.