Bid Writer in Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Metering team. You’ll join the leading provider of metering services in the UK energy retail sector, providing efficient and flexible services for gas, electricity and water meters. Our meter readers install, maintain and manage meters to ensure customers are billed correctly and energy usage patterns are monitored.

What will you be doing? As a Bid Writer, you’ll play a central role in helping us shape, articulate and win the work that keeps essential infrastructure running. This is a dynamic, high-visibility role where you’ll influence strategy, collaborate with experts across the business and create responses that stand out for clarity, confidence and quality. This is a hybrid role with 2 days per week in our Newcastle HQ.

• 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 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.

If you enjoy connecting people, ideas and strategy and turning all of that into bid responses that make an impact, this is the role for you.

What you’ll bring: We’re looking for someone who combines strong writing ability with strategic thinking and the confidence to influence others:

• 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? We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme.
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
• Employee assistance programme.
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s of retail discounts.
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave.
• Reward and recognition scheme.

In addition, this role offers 25 days plus bank holiday.

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 army 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.