Bid Writer

Department: Business Development

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Worsley

Compensation: £30,000 - £40,000 / year

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, draft, and complete non-commercial (quality) submissions, ensuring a client-specific focus and alignment to the published evaluation criteria is applied to every response.
• Develop articulate, coherent, and persuasive responses that support comprehensive submissions, utilising written text, method statements, case studies, photographs, sketches, and supporting documents where applicable.
• Interpret each question, plan the answer against the marking scheme, and structure content so that it directly and fully addresses what the evaluator is scoring.
• Adopt best-practice proposal writing techniques – including win themes, storyboarding, and features-to-benefits – to maximise the scoring potential of every submission.
• Craft compelling Social Value, sustainability, carbon reduction, and community engagement narratives that respond to client and regulatory expectations.
• Work to exceed expected quality standards, complying with internal bid processes and contributing to their continuous improvement.
• Read, understand, and extract key bid requirements from client documentation (SQ/PQQ, ITT, specifications, and framework schedules), and communicate these clearly to the wider bid team.
• Interview and engage subject matter experts across operations, SHEQ, commercial, and technical delivery to gather the detail and evidence needed, then translate it into reader-friendly, benefit-led narrative.
• Review, edit, and develop draft responses provided by other members of staff into polished, consistent, submission-ready content, applying a single clear voice throughout.
• Maintain and grow a reusable content and case study library, keeping boilerplate accurate, current, and ready to tailor.
• Maintain a high level of market intelligence, including insight into wider industry best practice, competitor activity, and client/regulatory information (Ofwat/Ofgem, AMP/RIIO).
• Proactively build knowledge of the organisation's offerings and differentiators to effec-tively articulate solutions and communicate value to customers and stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve the end-to-end bid process.
• Manage client procurement portals to ensure all requirements, deadlines, and documents are understood and applied to the bid process.
• Raise clarification questions with the Head of Bids or Bid Lead to ensure Tender Queries are captured and submitted within client deadlines.
• Support post-submission activity, including refining content for presentations, clarifications, and structured win/loss reviews to strengthen future writing.

Experience and Qualifications

• Exceptional written English, with a proven ability to write clear, persuasive, and grammatically flawless responses for a scored, evaluated audience
• Experience writing, tenders, or technical proposals (SQ/PQQ and ITT), ideally within utilities, infrastructure, construction or traffic management sectors
• The ability to translate technical, operational, and commercial input into engaging plain-English narrative pitched at the right level for an evaluator
• Strong answer-planning skills – able to deconstruct a question, map the marking scheme, and structure a response that directly addresses every requirement
• A confident editor, comfortable rewriting and elevating the drafts of others while preserving technical accuracy and consistency of tone and voice
• Meticulous attention to detail across spelling, grammar, formatting, word counts, and compliance with question requirements
• Awareness of best-practice proposal techniques such as win themes, storyboarding, features-to-benefits, and evidencing claims with proof points
• Understanding of the bid lifecycle, from receipt of client documentation through to submission, clarification, and review
• Computer literate in MS Office – Word, Excel and Powerpoint – with confidence navigating client e-procurement portals
• Well-organised, with excellent time management and the ability to write to fixed deadlines across multiple concurrent submissions
• Ability to develop effective relationships with technical stakeholders to obtain information and insights needed to address response requirements and articulate solutions clearly and accurately
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining quality
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work independently as well as part of a collaborative bid team

Salary and Benefits