Bid Writer
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | M50 3XP |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7475 |
Summary
We're looking for a Bid Writer to join our Corporate Transportation Team based nationwide. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive annual holiday entitlement with enhanced sick pay, a huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family and even more
Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Location: Nationwide, based at a local office
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: £45,000 to £50,000 per annum
What will you be responsible for?
As Bid Writer, you'll be working within the Work Winning team, supporting them in completing responses to selection questionnaires and tenders on behalf of Kier. This role is key in shaping the Kier Transportation business by retaining and securing new term contracts, projects, and frameworks, supporting planned and sustained growth. The bid writer will operate across all sectors within Kier Transportation (roads, rail, aviation and ports).
Your day to day will include:
-Working closely and flexibly with all members of the work winning team, developing tailored proposals, providing compelling narrative for selection questionnaires, tender submissions and other proposals e.g. industry awards submissions, drafting and finalising responses to selection questionnaires and tender submissions, evolving drafts in response to reviews and feedback
-Re-working existing pre-written content and boilerplate in line with specific questions, tailoring to individual client requirements, converting knowledge and technical information from operational teams into non technical language, actively engaging with the work winning process ensuring a full understanding of Kier Groups offer for specific projects and contracts
-Building relationships quickly with subject matter experts, functional leads and operational teams who are contributing to the submission, supporting the collation of evidence and collateral for the knowledge hub / bid library, providing evidence of successful delivery
-Combining market and competitor information that will be useful to Kier Transportation in future bids
-Sharing best practice and lessons learnt across the work winning team and Kier Transportation, proposing improvements to quality submissions
What are we looking for?
This role of Bid Writer is great for you if:
-You are educated to degree level or hold equal relevant work experience, proposal / bid writing experience is essential, preferably within the rail, roads or infrastructure sector
-Can demonstrate advanced Microsoft Word skills and highly proficient in using Microsoft Office
-Hold strong oral and written English, with the ability to present ideas in an easily understandable manner
Rewards and benefitsWe're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusionMaking Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier
Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Location: Nationwide, based at a local office
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
Salary: £45,000 to £50,000 per annum
What will you be responsible for?
As Bid Writer, you'll be working within the Work Winning team, supporting them in completing responses to selection questionnaires and tenders on behalf of Kier. This role is key in shaping the Kier Transportation business by retaining and securing new term contracts, projects, and frameworks, supporting planned and sustained growth. The bid writer will operate across all sectors within Kier Transportation (roads, rail, aviation and ports).
Your day to day will include:
-Working closely and flexibly with all members of the work winning team, developing tailored proposals, providing compelling narrative for selection questionnaires, tender submissions and other proposals e.g. industry awards submissions, drafting and finalising responses to selection questionnaires and tender submissions, evolving drafts in response to reviews and feedback
-Re-working existing pre-written content and boilerplate in line with specific questions, tailoring to individual client requirements, converting knowledge and technical information from operational teams into non technical language, actively engaging with the work winning process ensuring a full understanding of Kier Groups offer for specific projects and contracts
-Building relationships quickly with subject matter experts, functional leads and operational teams who are contributing to the submission, supporting the collation of evidence and collateral for the knowledge hub / bid library, providing evidence of successful delivery
-Combining market and competitor information that will be useful to Kier Transportation in future bids
-Sharing best practice and lessons learnt across the work winning team and Kier Transportation, proposing improvements to quality submissions
What are we looking for?
This role of Bid Writer is great for you if:
-You are educated to degree level or hold equal relevant work experience, proposal / bid writing experience is essential, preferably within the rail, roads or infrastructure sector
-Can demonstrate advanced Microsoft Word skills and highly proficient in using Microsoft Office
-Hold strong oral and written English, with the ability to present ideas in an easily understandable manner
Rewards and benefitsWe're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusionMaking Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier
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A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.