Bid Writer

About Us

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

Position

Our Business and Client Services Team is responsible for working closely and collaboratively with existing and potential clients, internal teams and alliance partners, positioning the Company at the forefront of its chosen sectors and we are seeking a Bid Writer to join our growing team. We want to recruit a colleague who’s energised and excited by working in multidisciplinary teams and shares the Company’s core professional values of innovation, excellence, and integrity.

You will be excited by the opportunity to:

• Complete in-depth reviews of tender information, contracts, and specifications to understand the bid requirements (technical and non-technical), response structures and scoring criteria for opportunities up to £50m
• Designing win themes that are concise and consistent, with an authentic and compelling narrative throughout the bid for the client to clearly understand
• Liaise with digital and data subject matter experts to obtain essential information and to design the overall solution including technical aspects
• Write bid responses to meet the solution design; establishing the authentic “voice” of the organisation so that responses resonate with the client
• Drive continual, critical improvement of responses, utilising all resources available
• Create new or amend existing content including standard responses as requirements change
• Review and critique bids written by others to ensure that, across the organisation, bid submissions are the best they can be
• Continually improve our digital knowledge management tools and practices for bids, ensuring that the value of knowledge capital is maximised effectively and efficiently
• Ensure collateral for bids is easily accessible and best reflects our services and abilities e.g. case studies, statistics, infographics etc.
• Learn from bid feedback, ensuring continuous improvement of our proposition development and outcomes

Requirements

• Demonstrable professional experience writing compelling bids and proposals for complex digital transformation programmes.
• Excellent business and persuasive writing skills, preferably with strong experience of writing about technical subject matter
• Bid management experience, preferably within a B2B or professional services environment, but note we are looking for bid writers rather than coordinators or managers.
• Degree in a relevant subject
• Able to work under pressure and to short deadlines with a clear sense of priority within a fast-paced and agile environment
• Excellent work planning capabilities and time management skills
• Ability to balance conflicting deadlines and priorities
• A meticulous attention to detail
• Punctuality, reliability, and a clear commitment to your role

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY© – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme*
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Salary Sacrifice scheme*

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.