Details:
- Salary: £300 - 500 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: Abbots Langley Hertfordshire
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
Bid Writer
Leavesden, WD25
Work until 30/08/2024
£300 - £500 per day
09:00 - 17:00 (Can be flexible on start and finishing times as long as 7.5 hours a day)
1st Step Solutions is currently recruiting for a top UK Construction Contractor. They are offering an exciting opportunity to join their Building Services Preconstruction Team during a crucial phase of their growth strategy. This role is perfect for someone who enjoys working with a dynamic bid team that is always looking for innovative ways to improve. You will have the chance to contribute new ideas and strategies across various industry sectors and customers.
Job Purpose:
To support the business to submit customer-centric PQQs, tenders and related documents that achieve high quality scores by enabling bid teams to respond to the customers' needs by clearly answering the questions and communicating benefits. Based in Leavesden you will facilitate response development through storyboarding, answer planning and writing workshops, and provide researching, writing and editing support.
Duties:
* To write well constructed, clear and highly engaging bid submissions that support a winning tender response and is aligned to what the customer wants.
* Enable bid teams to deliver high-quality draft responses through professional writing and editing support
* Analyse and understand PQQs and tenders quality scoring criteria and client requirements as well as the preferences of the target audience.
* Facilitate win themes, storyboarding, answer planning and writing workshops. Write question analysis and response plans.
* Work closely with subject matter experts and bid managers to develop and refine drafts into clearly articulated, well-structured, highly engaging responses that focus on the benefits of our solution to the customer, while ensuring consistency with house style and alignment with customer terminology.
* Work with graphic designers to produce appropriate graphics that enhance the response.
* Contribute to review meetings and consider review comments from review team to enhance PQQs and quality bid content.
Skills & Experience:
* Minimum GCSE English Language Grade C or equivalent (desirable).
* Degree-level education (desirable).
* Prior experience from a bidding environment FM / MEP desirable).
* Excellent written English, with attention to detail.
* Proven abilities in a professional writing capacity, delivering high-quality narrative to tight deadlines.
* Analytical skills: conceptual understanding, ability to articulate bid strategies, identify related win themes, organise and structure information.
* Microsoft Word proficiency (InDesign skills an advantage)