Job Introduction
Job Title | Bid Writer |
Responsible to | Senior Bid Team Manager |
Location | Mobile Working |
Department | Creative Lab – Bid Team |
Role Overview |
The Bid Writer will sit within the Creative Lab, a high performing specialist unit, focused on the creation and production of sales documents focused on our public services and essential environments business – from healthcare and government to retail and living spaces. The team work nationally, managing high value bids, proposals and presentations across multiple sectors.
The role of the Bid Writer would be to support and produce creative, strategic, solution based proposals and tenders. You will be involved in the project management of the entire bid lifecycle. This will include researching, authoring, editing and challenging content, supporting the development of win strategies and persuasive delivery structures, whilst creating bid guidelines and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
The Bid Writer will report into the Senior Bid Team Manager, working in conjuction with Sales or Retention Lead. A flexible approach would be required to accommodate the peaks and troughs of the bid lifecycle.
Responsibilities |
As the Bid Writer you will be responsible for ensuring that bid responses are written in a style and format to ensure:
- Professionally written and structured responses to questions which maximise ease of reading and award of marks by the evaluator
- Clarity of win themes and client WITY (What’s Important To You) is strongly articulated within written responses.
- Quantifiable evidence is included within responses to support our proposed solution
- The bid is fully compliant with all stated requirements
- A consistency in tone of voice, messaging and language across multiple answers
- Deployment of best practice writing techniques
- Responses are proofread and edited appropriately
- Work with, and challenge SMEs where required, to ensure that their responses are appropriate, compliant and correct.
- Owns designated questions, review, edit and enhance all answers ensuring that there is an introduction and summary for each section where relevant.
- Author executive summaries.
- Provide style guides and writer instructions to all members of the bid team.
- Develop new content for the knowledge library.
- Mentor and support the wider team as required.
- Attend all bid progress meetings
- Liaise and direct third parties involved in writing sections of the bid response documents, where relevant;
- Author answers requiring standard Compass boilerplate
- Identify bottlenecks or resource constraints and escalate for resolution.
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We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
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