Senior Bid Specialist - Public Sector

Join to apply for the Senior Bid Specialist - Public Sector role at Transform. Transform is a fresh alternative to Big Consulting. As an end-to-end transformation partner, we define, design, build and operate systems that solve our clients’ toughest challenges and seize their biggest opportunities. We specialise in public sector and public-facing organisations—from government agencies and local authorities to energy, utilities, transportation and healthcare.

The Role, Public Sector Bid Specialist

You will own and elevate the quality of Transform’s public sector proposals, ensuring they are not only compliant and competitive, but also deeply aligned with social impact, cultural fit, and emerging public sector priorities. You’ll drive strategy, frameworks, and capability so that every bid succinctly articulates Transform’s values, is compelling in narrative, demonstrates measurable social / environmental / cultural benefits, and meets or exceeds evaluation criteria.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish bid quality standards and review processes for all public sector tenders (PQQs, RFPs, RFIs, ITTs etc.)
• Support writers from practices in win theme and storyboarding sessions, including building an understanding of Transform’s solutions.
• Perform or lead internal reviews of draft responses - ensuring clarity, consistency, compliance, persuasive content, correct tone, cultural alignment.
• Support bid writers from the Transform practices in refining outline or draft responses.
• Work with the Framework Manager to maintain and refine a bid library / knowledge base of best answers, case studies, proof points, metrics.
• Lead bid-strategy development for major tenders: win themes, differentiators, value proposition, social value articulation, cultural fit.
• Monitor public sector policy, procurement rules, social value / Social Impact frameworks to ensure bids are compliant and optimised.
• Analyse past bid successes / failures to learn what works and feed continuous improvement.

Social Impact & Cultural Fit Focus

• Define how Transform frames social impact in proposals; ensure robust metrics, case studies, and delivery evidence.
• Ensure that “cultural fit” is woven into proposals.
• Engage with stakeholders to gather social impact inputs, community or partner data, evidence, stories.

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with bid teams: subject matter experts, operations / delivery, finance, legal to pull together high-quality content.
• Partner with the leadership teams to ensure alignment between strategic goals, brand / positioning, and what’s being promised.
• Liaise with external partners where needed to support social impact commitments.

Process & Governance

• Design / enforce a structured process for bid governance: timelines, responsibilities, review cycles, version control.
• Ensure bids meet all procurement / regulatory / legal / compliance requirements.
• Maintain risk assessment for bids and mitigation strategies.

Measuring, Reporting & Improvement

• After bid submissions, gather feedback and data to assess performance.
• Use that to improve templates, content, bid strategies.
• Report on key metrics to senior leadership.

Key Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience in public sector bidding / tendering in the UK.
• Solid understanding of procurement law, frameworks, social value obligations / legislation.
• Strong track record of developing and winning bids where social impact / cultural alignment figured heavily.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; persuasive writing, storytelling.
• Strong project management skills.
• Attention to detail, high standards of accuracy and consistency.
• Strong stakeholder management, able to influence senior leadership and delivery teams.
• Analytical mindset: able to use data / feedback to drive improvement.

Our culture is built on

• Being one team; looking out for each other as a team.
• Infinity & Beyond; we’re crazy ambitious, not afraid to fail along the way.
• Integrity is everything; we’re honest with each other and with our clients.
• Diversity is our superpower; everyone’s story is different, and we celebrate differences.
• We’re all in; we take on tough, complex challenges with lots of moving parts.

Our benefits include

• Holiday entitlement, 28 days with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days.
• Day off (on or in the week of) your birthday.
• Pension eligibility, up to 5% matched contributions.
• Life assurance.
• Enhanced maternity and enhanced paternity and shared parental leave.
• Cycle to work & electric car schemes.
• A range of other benefits from our flexible benefits package.

At Transform we believe in a culture of inclusivity, we celebrate difference and believe that diversity makes our business more relevant, our work more meaningful and our people more empowered. We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we actively seek applications from all ethnicities, orientations, beliefs, gender identities + those with neurodiverse traits and disabilities.

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