Bid Writer

Leidos; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

33 days Annual Leave (including public

Flexible Working Scheme

Job summary

Leidos UK is seeking motivated Bid Writers to join our established bid management function. Working with Bid Managers, Capture Managers, Solution Architects and SMEs, you will craft clear, compliant content throughout the bid lifecycle to explain our solution and differentiate our offer.

You will develop reusable bid content, coach SMEs, and support the governance reviews from drafting to final editorial assurance, ensuring every response is credible and evidence-based for evaluators.

Qualifications

• Strong editing and writing skills with attention to clarity and evidence.
• Ability to translate complex technical material into persuasive, evaluator-focused responses.
• Experience coordinating SMEs and content across structured reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned responses and content workstreams from requirement analysis to final editorial assurance.
• Draft PQQ and tender responses with a focus on clarity, logic and persuasion.
• Ensure responses explain deliverables, approach and customer benefits with technical accuracy.
• Review content from an evaluator perspective to address gaps and improve compelling evidence.

Skills

Editorial writing

Stakeholder management

Proposal writing

Content planning

Storyboarding

SME coordination

Editing

Education

Writing-related qualification

Job description

• Own assigned responses and content workstreams from requirement analysis and storyboarding through drafting, review and final editorial assurance, ensuring clarity, technical accuracy, compliance and alignment with the agreed bid strategy.
• Analyse procurement documents, customer questions, instructions and evaluation criteria, translating requirements into logical response structures and maintaining compliance and gap controls.
• Plan content using storyboards, response templates, content plans and Walls of Truth to control requirements, evidence and messaging.
• Facilitate SME interviews and workshops to establish the proposed approach, rationale, evidence, differentiators and measurable customer benefits.
• Draft PQQ and tender responses from workshop outputs, SME input and technical source material, restructuring contributions to improve clarity, logic and persuasion.
• Ensure each response explains what we will deliver, how and why the approach is credible, and the customer benefits, with technical accuracy validated by SMEs.
• Review content from an evaluators perspective, addressing evidence and rationale gaps while embedding agreed win themes, discriminators, customer priorities and value propositions.
• Research and tailor case studies, proof points, model answers and corporate credentials using the Proposal Information Centre (PIC) and approved programme information.
• Support storyboard, Pink, Red, Grey and final white-glove reviews, helping to prioritise and resolve feedback.
• Complete final editorial assurance, checking grammar, terminology, consistency, cross-references, formatting, attachments and page, word or character limits.
• Work with SMEs and production colleagues to identify where graphics, tables and callouts will communicate complex information more effectively and prepare clear briefs for their development.
• Build productive relationships across pursuit and delivery teams, partners, reviewers and production colleagues, communicating actions, deadlines, dependencies and quality concerns clearly.
• Develop reusable bid content, coach SMEs and developing writers, and champion best practice by sharing learning and improving templates, reviews, content libraries and writing standards.

Development opportunities

• Working with experienced bid professionals and technical specialists.
• Training and practical development in proposal best practice, content planning, storyboarding and structured reviews.
• Support for APMP membership and certification.
• Longer-term career pathways in proposal content or bid management.

Leidos is expanding its UK Growth team and is looking for motivated Bid Writers to join our established bid management function. Working with Bid Managers, Capture Managers, Solution Architects and subject matter experts (SMEs), you will create clear, compliant and persuasive content throughout the bid lifecycle, turning complex information into compelling responses that explain our solution, demonstrate credible evidence and differentiate our offer.

What you will bring

• You will combine strong writing and editorial skills with the confidence to engage technical specialists and stakeholders across the business.
• Experience developing bid or proposal content through drafting and structured review.
• The ability to translate complex information into concise, persuasive, evaluator-focused responses, supported by strong editorial judgement and attention to compliance, accuracy and evidence.
• Effective facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to challenge weak or unsupported material constructively.
• The ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines and sensitive information with sound judgement.
• A writing-related qualification or equivalent professional writing experience is desirable but not essential.

Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction…

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE we work to make the worldsafer,healthier, andmore efficient through technology, engineering andscience.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growthwhilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.