Bids & Tenders Writer in Northampton

About the role

Based in Northampton you’ll be working as part of our fast‑growing BauWatch UK commercial team. You will be responsible for producing high‑quality, clear, and compelling written responses to support successful onboarding, RFQ, proposals, and bids & tender submissions. Working under the guidance of the Commercial Manager, the role focuses on creating responses, content development, ensuring all written materials are tailored, compliant, and aligned with client requirements. The Bids Writer is responsible for creating and answering all content that is required to further the customer base of BauWatch. Supported by the Commercial Manager you will directly work with the strategic and regional sales teams to understand customer requirements and how BauWatch can exceed their service requirements. The ability to meet deadlines and run multiple responses at the same time are pivotal to the role. The ability to grow with the role is a key requirement, BauWatch is a fast-paced business with new opportunities constantly arising. The role is highly suited to someone wishing to develop their bids and tenders career, learning new skills and a passion to improve and grow the business.

Key Tasks

• Onboarding, Proposal & Tender Response Writing - Draft clear, concise, and persuasive responses to questions, ensuring alignment with client specifications and evaluation criteria.
• Content Tailoring & Editing - Adapt existing bid content to meet specific requirements, ensuring consistency in tone, messaging, and branding.
• Information Gathering - Liaise with internal stakeholders (operations, technical, commercial) to gather relevant information for bid responses.
• Portal Management - Reviewing opportunities, uploading responses, managing the tenders inbox.
• Compliance Support - Ensure written responses meet all tender instructions, formatting requirements, and submission guidelines.
• Content Library Management - Maintain and update a central library of standard responses, case studies, and supporting materials.
• Proofreading & Quality Assurance - Review and edit bid documents to ensure accuracy, clarity, and grammatical quality before submission.
• Bid Process Support - Assist with administrative and coordination tasks across the bid lifecycle, including document formatting and version control.
• Continuous Improvement - Support the review of bid feedback and contribute to improving content quality and response effectiveness.
• European Collaboration - Working with our European counterparts to develop UK, European and Group submissions.

About You

• Bids & Tenders Experience - Previous experience of writing, editing or content development, bid writing, marketing, journalism etc. Hire industry experience, preferred but not essential.
• Ability to use technology - Good knowledge of MS Office, specifically Word & PowerPoint among other programmes.
• Quality‑oriented - Committed to achieving and maintaining the intended quality. Strives for improvement. Convinces others of the importance of quality.
• Resilient - Working at the forefront of initial customer interaction requires an underlying resilience. The ability to continue to meet deadlines and “go again” is key.
• Team player - Promotes mutual communication and relationships. Shares information smoothly with others. Supports others.
• Independent - Is able to carry out your own work properly and solve problems without supervision from others.
• Customer focus - Understands the wishes and needs of the customer and adapts responses accordingly. Prioritise excellence and client satisfaction.
• Flexibility - Can easily adapt to a changing environment, working methods, working hours, tasks, responsibilities and behaviours of others.
• Friendly - Ability to get involved as part of a fast‑growing business with an ‘all hands on deck’ approach.
• Overnights Away - There may be the requirement to attend exhibitions, expos or customer facing events. This may involve staying away overnight as and when required on an ad‑hoc basis.
• Qualified Driver - Full driving licence valid in UK.

What to expect when you join?

When you join BauWatch, you step into an environment where the best services, high‑tech security, intelligent data, and process improvement all come together—a dynamic world in which no day is the same. We’re international, down‑to‑earth, entrepreneurial, inquisitive, keen to learn and continuously looking for opportunities to improve and grow. We’re open to trying out new ideas and take responsibility to move projects forward. We want to contribute to a future worth living by building a sustainable business. We’re working hard to become a fully circular organisation with a focus on sustainability and diversity. In our teams, everybody counts, and we include, value, and respect each individual. We have fun working together too!

Package & Benefits

• Salary: £40,000-£44,000pa, experience depending
• Hours: 37.5 per week
• Holiday: 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Training: In‑house support and external development opportunities
• Workplace Pension
• Retail Discount Platform
• Death In Service
• Private Medical Insurance - on successful probation
• Referral Policy
• Electric Car Scheme

About us

BauWatch Group is the European leader in temporary security solutions and has grown rapidly over the past 10 years with a current year‑over‑year growth around 30% p.a. As Europe’s #1 in the industry, we provide monitored surveillance services to customers primarily in the construction and civil engineering industry by combining our ruggedised monitoring towers, our own in‑house software and our leading end‑to‑end operations (incl. service and logistics) with remote monitoring to protect our customers’ assets. BauWatch has disrupted the market for temporary security, which we still see as blue‑ocean opportunity in most European countries. Backed by a leading purpose‑driven investor and with teams present in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Poland, Italy and the UK, BauWatch is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. You and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (Protected Characteristics).