Bid Writer

Bid Writer Opportunity

Salary up to £45,000

25 days annual leave plus banks plus your birthday off

Cycle to work scheme

Our is a specialist in the design, installation, and maintenance of fire safety and electrical systems, providing fire and electrical compliance and testing services. This covers a comprehensive range of physical infrastructure and safety considerations required for a building to meet regulatory requirements. As a leading fire and electrical compliance service provider to the public sector, our success relies upon a market-leading, engaged, and highly skilled team, for which we are always seeking skilled and self-motivated individuals to join.

Bid Writer Role

Are you a bid writing professional who’s passionate about results and success? Do you desire to create lasting value in an organization and have exceptional career development opportunities?

General Duties/Key Responsibilities of the Bid Writer:

• Responding to SQ, RFP and ITTs.
• Tracking clarifications and liaising with the relevant persons.
• Working with the Leadership Team to create innovative solutions to develop a clear win strategy, ensuring win themes are clear, compelling, and aligned to client requirements.
• Draft content and reusable documentation for PQQ / RFI / RFP / ITT / Frameworks and improve the existing knowledge base, driving improved productivity.
• Liaising with subject matter experts within SFE to develop case studies. Manage and facilitate storyboard sessions to build our solutions and approach to qualitative questions, leading to best in class responses.
• Ensure timescales are achieved at each step of the bid process, including all internal governance, while taking the initiative in setting realistic deadlines.
• Ensure on-time submission of compliant and commercially sound bids.
• Co-ordinate and plan client presentations required as part of the bid submission.
• Develop Business-winning standard process, relentless tracking of all activities and production of value-adding KPI metrics
• Maintain an accurate, documented Sales Database
• Drive continuous improvement through post-bid reviews.

Qualifications and Skills of the Bid Writer:

• Demonstrable success and ability in bid writing and winning high-value tenders within the public sector and social housing market, ideally within the Fire & Electrical Safety compliance marketplace.
• Able to work quickly and accurately, under one's own initiative and to tight timescales.
• Excellent analytical, written and problem-solving skills.
• Ideally, a bachelor’s degree or equivalent is required.
• Demonstrable successful experience in a matrix design organisation.
• Demonstrable career evidence of a key finance role in an organisation achieving significant Growth in Revenue & EBITDA
• Ability to develop and implement processes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Project, DP and InDesign.
• Ideally but not essential, knowledge of fire safety works, such as active, passive works etc.
• Ideally but not essential, social housing sector experience.

In return our client offers the following remuneration package

• Base salary up to £45,000
• 25 days leave (excluding bank holidays)
• An extra day off for your birthday
• Annual bonus
• Company pension
• Development opportunities/succession planning
• Employee Assistance Program
• Bike 2 Work & Employee savings schemes
• Flexible working options
• Funded Professional Subscription