At a Glance
- Tasks: Create compelling bids and engaging content to drive revenue and enhance brand visibility.
- Company: Mecsia, a leading UK provider of technical inspection and engineering services.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, 25 days holiday, pension scheme, and wellbeing benefits.
- Other info: Flexible working with opportunities for growth in a supportive environment.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make an impact through your writing skills.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in bid writing, excellent communication, and strong attention to detail.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Location Flexible / Hybrid (UK) with occasional travel to London
About Mecsia
Mecsia is a leading UK provider of technical inspection, maintenance, and engineering services, aiming to transform the industry with a 'Local Service, National Reach' approach. The company has grown significantly through organic expansion and strategic acquisitions, including seven business units serving large clients in different sectors including Commercial offices, healthcare and educational facilities. Under private equity ownership since 2020, Mecsia has expanded to approximately 1,600 employees. In 2024, Mecsia was acquired by Synova, recognised as PE house of the year for four of the last seven years, who supports an ambitious growth strategy through service excellence and further acquisitions.
About The Role
The Bid and Content Writer is a dual-focused role responsible for driving revenue through compelling, high-quality writing. Your main focus will be to translate complex concepts into persuasive, tailored proposals to win commercial contracts, while also producing engaging, brand-aligned marketing content that strengthens Mecsia Group’s external profile and supports customer engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Create engaging and high-quality content for bid responses, websites, social media and online channels to convey the key messages and impact of Mecsia Group to a broad range of stakeholders.
- Building response timelines, managing input from subject matter experts, and driving their own writing tasks to hit strict submission deadlines.
- Ensure all submissions rigorously adhere to evaluation criteria, client guidelines, and strict deadlines.
- Ensure all supplementary bid documents and presentations, such as case studies, capability statements and images align perfectly with company brand guidelines and professional design standards.
- Contribute high-impact insight into the development of compelling win themes, strategic positioning, and visual storytelling, ensuring all messaging reflect market insight, client drivers, and our commercial priorities.
- Maintain and update a central repository of approved bid templates, case studies and company data for future use.
- Contribute to the development and delivery of the Communications Strategy, through effective content scheduling and the publication of written articles, blog posts and case studies.
- Repurpose approved bid, technical and marketing content for different audiences and channels.
- Build strong relationships across the Group to identify subject matter experts, thought leaders and technical specialists, gathering insight that strengthens bids, content and external communications.
- Gather project evidence, technical insight and customer stories from teams across the Group.
- Edit and proofread copy to ensure tone of voice consistency across all external communication channels.
Key Skills & Experience
- At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role with proven track record of writing complex bids in the Hard FM, technical services, or building services sector.
- Excellent written communication skills with the ability to compose carefully crafted and persuasive correspondence to a variety of stakeholders.
- Confidence interviewing technical and operational colleagues to turn complex information into clear, compelling content.
- An eye for detail and strong structural planning skills.
- Strong commercial awareness, with an understanding of how bids and content support business growth.
- An eye for design consistency, such as managing colour palettes, font hierarchies, spacing, and image resolution.
- Self-motivated, be ambitious and have the ability to work well within a team and independently.
- Have a good understanding of social media platforms, with experience preparing high quality online content for websites, press or social media.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with people at all levels of an organisation.
- Ability to influence and communicate effectively.
- Ability to work on own initiative to meet objectives and deadlines across a wide range of tasks, maintaining high organisational skills.
- Excellent Microsoft skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe InDesign.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays.
- Contribute to the Company Pension Scheme.
- Wellbeing benefits include 24/7 access to a GP.
- Employee discounts i.e. gym memberships, high street shops.
- Individual recognition schemes with rewards.
- Employee referral scheme.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability.
