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Bid Writer/Coordinator
Based in Bishop's Stortford
Permanent
40-50K per annum + 5K car allowance
Working hours & salary
- 8am to 5pm, M-F, 1hr lunch
- 25 days annual leave excluding public holidays
- 40,000 - 50,000 + 5,000 car allowance
Skills and knowledge
- Experience as Bid Assistant role.
- Knowledge of a construction bid/procurement or business development environment preferable.
- Experience of working previously within similar sectors/organisations.
- The ability to work both as a team member and on own initiative when required.
- Experience of using Microsoft applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Understanding of Adobe applications, including InDesign, Adobe Pro.
Main duties
- Develop high-quality, project specific written content for client ITT and PQQ / EOI requests using persuasive writing techniques.
- Customise and re-work existing pre-written content to meet specific bid requirements.
- Ensure compliance with required proposal deliverables, scoring metrics and solution/win themes whilst achieving internal and client deadlines.
- Support with internal bid submission processes including booking and taking part in bid launch and mid-bid meetings as well as site visits.
- Organise and take part in writing sessions with bid and operational team members, key stakeholders and subject matter experts.
- Support with producing accurate, relevant case studies and undertake visits to live sites (where required) to gather appropriate information.
- Be responsible for extracting tender documents and updating the bid library accordingly and regularly.
- Receive, process, record and track all incoming tenders and alerts.
- Support with the communication and logging of the clarifications process.
- Take ownership of internal tender/outcome tracking systems, including the CRM system ((url removed)).
- Maintain all tendering/response/compliance portals with up-to-date company information/documents.
- Support with gathering and maintaining information relevant to company accreditations and update the portals in advance of expiry dates.
- Support the marketing function of the businesses.
- Attend business events including client as well as soft marketing engagements for upcoming bids, if required.
