Bid Writer

Location - Skelmersdale Head Office

Salary - £30,000-£40,000 Dependant on experience

Contract - Full time, Permanent.

Hours of Work – 39.5 hours per week to be flexible 8am – 6pm Monday-Thursday and 5pm on Fridays

Sustainable Building Services is a multi-award-winning retrofit decarbonisation turnkey service provider and principal contractor delivering at scale across all housing tenure types, including social, owner-occupied, and private rental homes. We are now recruiting for a Bid Writer to join our growing team.

About the Role:

In your role as a Bid Writer you will take ownership of and lead the researching, development and writing of bid proposals, including collating key data, coordinating with key stakeholders, including estimating and operational leads, managing their contributions, and ensuring completion of written requirements in agreed-upon timeframes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing the bid lifecycles of agreed-upon opportunities, from bid review to writing quality submissions, and managing and coordinating the bid lifecycle, including post-bid activities.
• Follow the SBS bid management protocols and processes.
• Producing the initial Bid/No Bid for relevant opportunities to inform the decision-making process to pursue the opportunity, or not.
• Complete Tender Reviews for approved bids and issue to the relevant team members.
• Arrange Tender Kick-off meetings, and complete storyboarding sessions with relevant bid stakeholders.
• Support the Senior Bid Coordinator in the completion of more complex SQ and DPS responses.
• Developing relationships with SBS bid contributors, including commercial and operational members, and external partners, such as design partners and consultants, to develop excellent bid responses.
• Capturing commercial and quality feedback to drive improvement.
• Conduct and document a lessons-learnt exercise following feedback from each bid, driving an environment of continual improvement within our bid responses.
• Support the team in maintaining the bid library to support the ongoing bid function.
• Supporting the Senior Bid Coordinator during busy times when required, and covering their bid admin responsibilities when they are on leave.
• Attending a range of networking procurement, and bidding events, as and when required.
• Working closely with Business Development team to gain market intelligence.
• Collaborating with the team to ensure bids/submissions are uploaded within the required deadlines.
• Gathering market, competitor and client intelligence as needed.
• Apply continuous improvement principles.
• Proactively support team members when required.
• Work collaboratively with other Group departments to share information and collateral where required.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Essential: Degree educated or minimum 2 years’ time served in Bid Writer role.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience of bid management processes and procedures.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office 365 with excellent Word document formatting skills, but also highly competent in Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Teams.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.
• Desirable: Degree in relevant subject E.g. Marketing, English.
• Experience in a similar role or within the industry.
• Marketing experience.
• Understanding/experience of retrofit is advantageous.
• Competently skilled in Adobe Creative Suite in particular Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop.
• Confident to represent the business at external events E.g. Conferences.