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Bid Writer

6 days ago

Skelmersdale

Bid Writer Location - Skelmersdale Head Office Salary - Dependant on experience Contract - Full time, Permanent. Hours of Work – 39.5 hours per week, flexible between 8 am – 6 pm Sustainable Building Services is a multi-award-winning retrofit decarbonisation turnkey service provider and principal contractor delivering at scale across all housing tenure types, including social, owner-occupied, and private rental homes. We are now recruiting for a Bid Writer to join our growing team. About the Role: In your role as a Bid Writer, you will take ownership of and lead the researching, development and writing of bid proposals, including collating key data, coordinating with key stakeholders, including estimating and operational leads, managing their contributions, and ensuring completion of written requirements in agreed- upon timeframes. Key Responsibilities: • Managing the bid lifecycles of agreed-upon opportunities, from bid review to writing quality submissions, and managing and coordinating the bid lifecycle, including post-bid activities., • Follow the SBS bid management protocols and processes., • Producing the initial Bid/No Bid for relevant opportunities to inform the decision-making process to pursue the opportunity, or not, • Complete Tender Reviews for approved bids and issue to the relevant team members, • Arrange Tender Kick-off meetings, and complete storyboarding sessions with relevant bid stakeholders to ensure., • Support the Senior Bid Coordinator in the completion of more complex SQ and DPS responses., • Developing relationships with SBS bid contributors, including commercial and operational members, and external partners, such as design partners and consultants, to develop excellent bid responses., • Capturing commercial and quality feedback to drive improvement. Conduct and document a lessons-learnt exercise following feedback from each bid, driving an environment of continual improvement within our bid responses., • Support the team in maintaining the bid library to support the ongoing bid function, including taking ownership of subject elements to keep the information up to date., • Supporting the Senior Bid Coordinator during busy times when required, and covering their bid admin responsibilities (managing the bid mailbox, ensuring tender clarifications/queries are issued and responded to, etc.) when they are on leave., • Attending a range of networking, procurement, and bidding events, as and when required, • Working closely with the Business Development team to gain market intelligence, • Collaborating with the team to ensure bids/submissions are uploaded within the required deadlines., • Gathering market, competitor and client intelligence as needed, • Apply continuous improvement principles., • Proactively support team members when required., • Work collaboratively with other Group departments to share information and collateral where required. Qualifications & Experience: Essential • Degree educated or minimum 3 years served in a similar role, within bidding for social housing, • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, • Experience in bid management processes and procedures, • Proficient in Microsoft Office 365, with excellent Word document formatting skills, but also highly competent in Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams, • Excellent organisational and time management skills, • Degree in a relevant subject E.g. Marketing, English, • Experience in a similar role or within the industry, • Understanding of procurement and relevant legislations, • Bid writing training, • Marketing experience, • Understanding/experience of retrofit is advantageous., • Competently skilled in Adobe Creative Suite, in particular Acrobat, InDesign, and Photoshop, • Confident to represent the business at external events, e.g. Conferences We are an equal opportunities employer, and we are committed to recruiting the best person for this post. We will ensure fair and equal opportunities for all potential and existing employees. This relates to Gender, Marital status, Family status, Age, Race, Sexual orientation, and religious belief.

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