Bid Writer in Nottingham

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working? At M Group Energy we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation. This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

What will you be doing? We're recruiting for an experienced Bid Writer who will play a critical role in helping us secure major infrastructure projects across the UK, shaping compelling narratives, driving win themes, and turning complex technical input into clear, persuasive proposals that stand out. This is a hybrid position, and you’ll be working from our Nottingham office at least 3 days each week to collaborate closely with the team.

• Develop clear, client-focused pricing narratives for price updates, tenders, and commercial clarifications.
• Taking full ownership of written bid responses interpreting client requirements, shaping solution structure and producing persuasive, well-crafted content.
• Facilitating storyboarding and planning sessions to agree win themes, narrative flow and key messaging.
• Asking insightful questions to challenge assumptions, strengthen solutions and ensure our proposition is fully aligned to client needs.
• Collaborating closely with estimators, engineers, operational leads and senior stakeholders to bring together technical excellence, ESG commitments, social value and innovation.
• Supporting the development of graphics, diagrams or visual layouts that help make complex ideas simple and engaging.
• Capturing lessons learned, updating the content library and continuously improving templates, tools and bid processes.

What you’ll bring:

• A minimum of 5 years experience delivering major tenders or frameworks within a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Exceptional writing skills - able to simplify complexity, structure compelling narratives and adapt tone to client expectations.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build relationships, facilitate workshops and influence thinking at all levels.
• A strategic mindset - someone who doesn’t just write what they’re given, but shapes solutions, challenges assumptions and adds value.
• High attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously.
• Advanced MS Word and strong MS Office skills; design or layout experience (InDesign or similar) is a bonus.
• APMP certification (Foundation or Practitioner) preferred, or a willingness to work towards it.
• The ability to travel for workshops, interviews or stakeholder engagement sessions when required.
• A proactive attitude, resilience under pressure and a genuine enjoyment of collaboration and continuous improvement.

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Private health care and health care cash plan.
• Matched or contributory pension scheme.
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave.

About us: We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs. Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet.
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations.
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered. For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.