Senior Bid Writer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Kent, TN14 5EL |
| Cwmni: | FM Conway |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | ORG1531-LM1439547SevSBW |
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FM Conway is recruiting for a Senior Bid Writer to work within our Bids division. You will be leading, coordinating, and creating professionally written tender submissions that clearly convey FM Conway’s value proposition and optimise scoring against the evaluation criteria. This is a full-time, permanent position based from our head office in Sevenoaks.
The duties of the Senior Bid Writer role will include:
- Managing and improving the end-to-end bid process with the Head of Bids, Divisional Directors, and the bid team
- Reviewing tender documents to understand technical requirements and define key deliverables
- Preparing and managing the tender programme and delivery plan
- Leading tender briefings and storyboard sessions with technical and operational teams
- Drafting, editing, and reviewing the quality and technical components of tender submissions
- Supporting senior management with tender presentations, negotiations, and market engagement
- Providing expertise to the bid team, including technical input for Selection Questionnaires, case studies, capability statements, and contributions to FM Conway’s knowledge base
- Ensuring tenders are complete, compliant, professional, and well-presented
What skills and experience do you need?
We are looking for a skilled Senior Bid Writer with a proven track record in tendering for major contracts, particularly in civil engineering and highway maintenance. The ideal candidate will excel in translating technical content into persuasive, clear documents and have strong leadership, planning, and organisational skills. Knowledge of the Procurement Act 2023, NEC contracts, and experience in technical construction environments are essential.
What benefits will you receive?
As our Senior Bid Writer we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, car allowance, life assurance, private healthcare, company bonus, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines and support from our mental health first aiders. Based from our Sevenoaks Head Office you will have free access to our on-site gym and subsidised restaurant.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Bids Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
FM Conway works across the full spectrum of London and the South East’s highways structures and broader infrastructure needs. We have a strong track record of delivering refurbishments and improvements, heritage maintenance, structural repairs and work for rail and tunnels. We have worked on a range of iconic and impressive projects including Hammersmith Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Rochester Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Marble Arch – Still Water Illumination and Greenford Flyover. FM Conway provide our clients and stakeholders with a full range of structural engineering services, utilising innovative and sustainable solutions to maximise value and ensure the successful delivery of projects to the highest quality design.
So if you would like to Join our Family as our Senior Bid Writer then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 10/12/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
The duties of the Senior Bid Writer role will include:
- Managing and improving the end-to-end bid process with the Head of Bids, Divisional Directors, and the bid team
- Reviewing tender documents to understand technical requirements and define key deliverables
- Preparing and managing the tender programme and delivery plan
- Leading tender briefings and storyboard sessions with technical and operational teams
- Drafting, editing, and reviewing the quality and technical components of tender submissions
- Supporting senior management with tender presentations, negotiations, and market engagement
- Providing expertise to the bid team, including technical input for Selection Questionnaires, case studies, capability statements, and contributions to FM Conway’s knowledge base
- Ensuring tenders are complete, compliant, professional, and well-presented
What skills and experience do you need?
We are looking for a skilled Senior Bid Writer with a proven track record in tendering for major contracts, particularly in civil engineering and highway maintenance. The ideal candidate will excel in translating technical content into persuasive, clear documents and have strong leadership, planning, and organisational skills. Knowledge of the Procurement Act 2023, NEC contracts, and experience in technical construction environments are essential.
What benefits will you receive?
As our Senior Bid Writer we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, car allowance, life assurance, private healthcare, company bonus, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines and support from our mental health first aiders. Based from our Sevenoaks Head Office you will have free access to our on-site gym and subsidised restaurant.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Bids Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
FM Conway works across the full spectrum of London and the South East’s highways structures and broader infrastructure needs. We have a strong track record of delivering refurbishments and improvements, heritage maintenance, structural repairs and work for rail and tunnels. We have worked on a range of iconic and impressive projects including Hammersmith Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, Rochester Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Marble Arch – Still Water Illumination and Greenford Flyover. FM Conway provide our clients and stakeholders with a full range of structural engineering services, utilising innovative and sustainable solutions to maximise value and ensure the successful delivery of projects to the highest quality design.
So if you would like to Join our Family as our Senior Bid Writer then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 10/12/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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