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Bid Writer

Job details
Posting date: 14 January 2025
Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 per year
Additional salary information: + Benefits
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 27 January 2025
Location: Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2BB
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week
Company: Fawkes & Reece
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: JW-44386-BW_1736759907

Summary

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our business

  • Main Contractor providing a complete building service to companies and organisations throughout London, South of England and the Midlands
  • From general building works for public and private clients, refurbishment and building contracts in excess of £1m through to multi-million-pound framework agreements

Role overview

  • Reporting to the New Business Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for producing clear and high-quality responses to client ITT- and PQQ-stage requests, supporting the marketing function of the business as well as supporting the daily portal and client notifications.

Working hours & salary

  • 8am to 5pm, M-F, 1hr lunch
  • 25 days annual leave excluding public holidays

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 (Monday.com).
  • Maintain all tendering/response/compliance portals with up-to-date company information/documents.
  • Support with gathering and maintaining information relevant to company accreditation's 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.
  • Any other duties as reasonably required.

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.
  • Experience of supporting with company accreditation updates (CHAS, Constructionline)
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills.
  • Excellent communication/interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written English with an excellent eye for detail.