Bid Writer

Leidos is expanding its UK Growth team and is looking for motivated Bid Writers to join our established bid management function. Working with Bid Managers, Capture Managers, Solution Architects and subject matter experts (SMEs), you will create clear, compliant and persuasive content throughout the bid lifecycle, turning complex information into compelling responses that explain our solution, demonstrate credible evidence and differentiate our offer.

What you will bring:

• You will combine strong writing and editorial skills with the confidence to engage technical specialists and stakeholders across the business.
• Experience developing bid or proposal content through drafting and structured review.
• The ability to translate complex information into concise, persuasive, evaluator-focused responses, supported by strong editorial judgement and attention to compliance, accuracy and evidence.
• Effective facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence to challenge weak or unsupported material constructively.
• The ability to manage competing priorities, deadlines and sensitive information with sound judgement.
• A writing-related qualification or equivalent professional writing experience is desirable but not essential.

What you will do:

• Own assigned responses and content workstreams from requirement analysis and storyboarding through drafting, review and final editorial assurance, ensuring clarity, technical accuracy, compliance and alignment with the agreed bid strategy.
• Analyse procurement documents, customer questions, instructions and evaluation criteria, translating requirements into logical response structures and maintaining compliance and gap controls.
• Plan content using storyboards, response templates, content plans and Walls of Truth to control requirements, evidence and messaging.
• Facilitate SME interviews and workshops to establish the proposed approach, rationale, evidence, differentiators and measurable customer benefits.
• Draft PQQ and tender responses from workshop outputs, SME input and technical source material, restructuring contributions to improve clarity, logic and persuasion.
• Ensure each response explains what we will deliver, how and why the approach is credible, and the customer benefits, with technical accuracy validated by SMEs.
• Review content from an evaluator's perspective, addressing evidence and rationale gaps while embedding agreed win themes, discriminators, customer priorities and value propositions.
• Research and tailor case studies, proof points, model answers and corporate credentials using the Proposal Information Centre (PIC) and approved programme information.
• Support storyboard, Pink, Red, Grey and final white-glove reviews, helping to prioritise and resolve feedback.
• Complete final editorial assurance, checking grammar, terminology, consistency, cross-references, formatting, attachments and page, word or character limits.
• Work with SMEs and production colleagues to identify where graphics, tables and callouts will communicate complex information more effectively and prepare clear briefs for their development.
• Build productive relationships across pursuit and delivery teams, partners, reviewers and production colleagues, communicating actions, deadlines, dependencies and quality concerns clearly.
• Develop reusable bid content, coach SMEs and developing writers, and champion best practice by sharing learning and improving templates, reviews, content libraries and writing standards.

Development opportunities:

• Working with experienced bid professionals and technical specialists.
• Training and practical development in proposal best practice, content planning, storyboarding and structured reviews.
• Support for APMP membership and certification.
• Longer-term career pathways in proposal content or bid management.

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

• Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe.
• Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.
• People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing.