Bid Writer (Healthcare) in Birmingham

Job Location: Birmingham, UK

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full‑time

Job Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level

Join Kainos and Shape the Future

At Kainos, we’re problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we’re transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting‑edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together. We believe in a people‑first culture, where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration. Ready to make your mark? Join us and be part of something bigger.

Main Purpose of the Role & Responsibilities

Our vision is to create a world‑class business development and marketing capability for Kainos, fuelled by a diverse range of highly talented and motivated professionals working collaboratively and innovatively to continue our growth trajectory. We do this via an open and supportive environment where colleagues can share information, learn from one another and excel in their own career. With consistent ways of working aligned to industry best practice, we build sustainable and predictable sales pipelines for our market‑leading offerings.

As an experienced Bid Writer in the Healthcare sector of our Digital Services business, you will create compliant, submission‑grade content for bid responses, ensuring the high quality of our proposals to win new business. As a pivotal part of our pre‑sales function, you will collaborate closely with sales leads and bid teams to understand our clients’ real requirements, develop our win themes, author high‑scoring responses, and guide the team to a high‑quality, end‑to‑end proposal. You will join our pre‑sales team as part of our sales community, where you will bring your analytical and authoring skills, together with a strong interest to further develop your industry knowledge. You will be joining a passionate and growing Healthcare sector team intent on transforming the industry through data, technology and responsible innovation, to help people live longer, healthier lives and unlock new clinical breakthroughs. Based at home but required to travel to Kainos London and other locations whenever appropriate.

• Understand bid requirements, create storyboards, and produce response plans.
• Ensure compliance with bid requirements, client’s formal procurement processes, and internal Kainos bidding processes, including completion of appropriate review processes.
• Apply win themes and follow bid strategy – leveraging Kainos and partner strengths, and understanding business and market intelligence in order to develop bid‑specific win themes.
• Fully answer questions by writing, editing, and reviewing submission responses, drawing on contributions and collateral.
• Engage with SMEs for content through interviewing and knowledge elicitation sessions.
• Draft content and edit; track and report progress – plan and manage all aspects of a coherent, high‑quality response including alignment with the Bid Manager to coordinate bid team inputs, timeline and review activities.
• Contribute to bid productivity improvements – own and drive bid production continuous improvement initiatives, including AI tooling adoption, and cross‑sector collaboration.
• Upskill people – train staff new to bid responses in best‑practice approaches, as well as educate and share knowledge with sales/account teams and customers in relation to bid production.

Minimum (Essential) Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a commercial environment with IT bidding experience and a sound awareness of current technology and business trends.
• Some familiarity with the technical detail relating to the delivery of modern digital services (including bespoke software delivery, agile methodologies etc.).
• Experience in bid writing of customer proposals of significant scale.
• Strong awareness and understanding of what constitutes submission‑grade content.
• Highly capable of multi‑tasking and prioritising tasks with the ability to work under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to motivate team members and lead by example.
• Passion for developing people – demonstrated ability in mentoring and coaching colleagues and contributing to the wider community.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex proposals succinctly.
• Strong critical thinking skills to interpret and disaggregate complex compound client bid questions to form clear, well‑structured responses.
• Self‑starter, highly motivated and proactive with respect to personal development.
• Affable, credible and enthusiastic, priding themselves on delivering high quality work.

Desirable

• Understanding of IT procurement frameworks used in the UK Healthcare and Public Sector, such as Digital Capability for Health 2, Digital Outcomes and Specialists, and G‑Cloud.
• Hands‑on experience delivering digital services using Agile and user‑centred design methods.
• Familiarity with the UK Healthcare delivery landscape, including the organisational structure of the NHS and related healthcare bodies.
• Understanding of how Generative AI tooling can improve the efficiency of bid production without compromising the accuracy or integrity of responses.

Who You Are

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values are not abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems; and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience.

About Us

At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier. We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they work today and the impact they have tomorrow. Our two specialist practices, Digital Services and Workday, work globally for clients across healthcare, commercial and the public sector to make the world a little bit better, day by day.

Embracing our differences

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are. We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field. Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.