Bid Writer

Fawkes & Reece London

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 url removed .
• 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.