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Title:Bid Writer / Bid Writing / Bid Manager / Bid Management
Location: HOME BASED
Salary:Highly Competitive Salary + Excellent Bonus + Mobile + Laptop + Excellent Company Pension + Great Company Benefits
Organisation: A highly reputable progressive, modern and innovative Multi £Billion Facilities Management organisation operating across the UK. Providing a steep growth trajectory and offering a huge spectrum of hard and soft FM services.
A Bid Writer position within a modern, successful organisation, working on complex bidding solutions. Huge opportunity for career development and progressed opportunity within a business offering longevity and a well cultured employee orientated environment
The person
A motivated professional with excellent interpersonal skills, and proposals / bid writing experience to work within the Bid Management division putting forward high-qualitysubmissions from start to finish.
Job purpose
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly capable individual to help us in increasing the quality and quantity of bids and to drive successful delivery of all tender documentation. This role will require a highly motivated professional with excellent interpersonal and writing skills who will work on the bid process from start to finish.
This role will suit someone with bid writing experience. The successful candidate will have a substantial proficiency in bid writing and / OR bid management.
Bid duties would include:
Full Bid Writing responsibility, however you will be involved with other contracts and proposals.
Collateral development- writing/editing input from a variety of stakeholders typically involving contributions from sales, marketing and operations
Maintain a good working knowledge of the company business practices and standards to ensure an appreciation of the broad scope of knowledge and content required to satisfactorily respond to tenders.
Writing the bids, including ITT (invitation to tender), PQQ (Pre-Qualifying Questionnaires)
Attend meetings via Teams as required with the Business Development team to agree strategy, content and actions-Collate data for and complete RFI`s (Return For Information), PQQ`s (Pre-Qualification Questionnaire), ITT`s (Instructions to Tender) and RFQ`s (Request For Quotation) etc. within defined deadlines and to a high quality-Work with the team to create and produce winning, compelling, professional and high quality tenders, proposals and reports within defined deadlines-Creation of presentations to a high standard.
Maintain and have working knowledge of tender submissions-Create letters and reports as required
Input to post tender presentations and negotiations from a writing perspective -Dissect questions and produce answer plans to maximise relevant information extracted from team members
Review, edit and write material for case studies / data sheets-Ensure all tender submissions, clarifications, presentations and other proposals are submitted within required timelines, holding individual team members accountable as required
Communicate with the bid library manager onthe development and maintenance of a bid library - To deliver an efficient and responsive bid-writing service
Adhere to all Company policies, procedures and business ethics codes
Additional Responsibilities:
Proofreading all documentation written by yourself or others either in the bid team or provided from internal or external sources by way of quality management and consistent improvement of the bid functions output.
Production and delivery of high-quality bid documentation in line with the companies internal requirements and additionally ensuring all end-client requirements and specifications with regards to the bid writing have been met.
Liaising with sales team, finance officers, legal department, HR team, management etc. to prepare project budgets, schedule, costs, management structures and work package description
Supporting the organising of evaluation and sign off on the prepared documentation before submitting to the customer
Reviewing and monitoring bidding progress and resolving / escalating issues and problems
Success in writing documentation for successful bids, tenders, proposals or presentations
Professional writing skills with a proven experience of understanding bid procedures and responding to tenders and framework bids
Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Office suite, and other desk-top publishing packages with the ability to produce / edit presentations, tenders, proposals documents
An excellent communicator with the ability confidently liaise and influence across all levels of the business, with clients and other partners, and is not afraid to ask for information when it is required
Highly organised with the ability work effectively with team and independently to defined deadlines
The ability to work effectively under pressure to deliver to high quality submissions in line with the tender submission deadlines
Strong attention to detail and a high level of focus on the achievement of the teams bid targets
Maintain professional internal and external relationships that meet Company core values.
Previous experience is desirable; however, full training will be provided. You will need to present and conduct yourself in a professional, courteous and appropriate manner in accordance with the Company policies, procedures, guidelines and values.
Relevant professional experience in bid writing or bid management or highly allied experience
Experience in the facilities management industry is highly advantageous, however all industry experience within the bid writing / bid management sector will be considered
Fluency in spoken and written English is essential
Skills and Abilities
Ability to interpret complex documents
Proactive with intuition
Ability to motivate and work as part of a team / communicate with additional teams internally and externally
High quality, clear and concise writing style
Strong interpersonal skills
Excellent communication skills
Organised and self-motivated to produce high quality results
Strong attention to details
Send your CV for immediate consideration and interview.
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