MB856: Bid Writer
Location: London
Salary: £42,000 + £5,060 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Enhanced Pension Contributions
Overview:
First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic national construction business who are looking to recruit a Bid Writer on a permanent basis due to growth based at their London depot.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Produce written responses for PQQs and Tenders including; unique responses, references, case studies, CVs (in liaison with Bid Coordinators) and project experience.
- Support the Head of Submissions and Bid Managers in the production of PQQ and Tender responses, and associated components.
- Ensure compliance with the Work Winning processes and procedures to manage submissions and bid-related information.
- Support briefings, kick-off meetings and progress meetings.
- Ensuring all tender documentation is presented to a uniformly high standard, editing and proofreading submission documents, as well as (when required) coordinating and supporting in the production and finalisation of documents.
- Facilitate storyboarding sessions with subject matter experts, taking ownership to completion.
- Prepare graphics such as flow charts, diagrams and organisation charts as required to support high standard submissions.
- Ongoing support of contributors with content development and responses, by assessing whether the questions are being answered (1st drafts and red review process) in liaison with Bid Coordinators.
- Provide feedback to the Head of Submissions, Bid Managers and Bid Coordinators of progress with responses.
- Create the final publication, and with the team, ensure the bid is delivered to the client on time.
- Maintain Document Management System ensuring a complete record of the submission is maintained for future review or scrutiny.
- Identify and re-work existing pre-written content where relevant.
- Work to demanding and changeable deadlines, in a highly pressured environment.
Skills and Qualifications:
- A background or previous experience in journalism, or writing.
- Degree educated (ideally English Literature) or journalistic / professional writing background.
- Demonstrable high level of competence in written English.
- Creative approach to producing submissions for demanding clients
- Proof reading and formatting experience.
- Ability to take ownership of a response/s (from concept to completion) and coordinate contributors, specialists and third party information (storyboarding) to produce a high quality (winning) response.
- The ability to work within Multi-disciplined teams. This requires continual communication with the departments and organisational skills to ensure the level of support provided meets the Bid requirements.
- Ability to coach subject matter experts in writing best practice.
- Must be able to demonstrate how you develop relationships at a number of levels in order to work together to achieve both the project and Company’s goals.
- Must have the ability to listen, observe and interpret words, behaviours and actions of others and respond constructively. This requires good communication skills.
- Demonstrate how you maintain a clear focus and determination to complete the work that has been allocated, liaise with colleagues to meet deadlines and seek ways to help others to maximise their achievement.
- Able to Multi-task.
- Ability to work collaboratively, setting and acting upon clear and realistic goals and objectives.
- Must demonstrate the ability to use own initiative, question assumptions and learn from and share experiences.
- Must demonstrate how you have sought improvements and alternative ways of doing things to meet tight deadlines or objectives.
- Able to respond to setbacks positively and learn from them.
- Evaluate own performance and has an attitude which seeks improvement.
MB856: Bid Writer
Location: London
Salary: £42,000 + £5,060 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Enhanced Pension Contributions
