Bid Writer - 12 month maternity cover

12-month fixed term (maternity cover) with progression opportunity

VINCI Building is excited to offer an opportunity for a Bid Writer to join our team to cover a 12-month maternity leave across our Midlands Business Unit based in Solihull, with the opportunity to progress into a longer-term role in the future.

As an experienced Bid Writer, you’ll join our work-winning team helping us create compelling, high-quality tender submissions that clearly communicate why VINCI Building is the right construction partner for our clients.

This is much more than simply pulling documents together. You’ll work closely with our bid, pre-construction, technical and operational teams, understanding the customer’s priorities and turning technical information into clear, persuasive and differentiated responses.

You’ll play an important role throughout the tender process, helping develop the structure and narrative of submissions and ensuring every response is compliant, engaging, evidence‑based and delivered to the highest standard.

The role

As Bid Writer, you will:

• Coordinate and produce high-quality PQQ, framework, tender and proposal submissions.
• Interpret tender questions and customer requirements to understand exactly what a successful response needs to demonstrate.
• Research, write and edit compelling qualitative responses that clearly articulate our solutions, experience, capability and added value.
• Work closely with subject matter experts across construction, design, commercial, planning, sustainability, health & safety and other disciplines to extract the information needed to develop strong responses.
• Interview and challenge contributors to turn highly technical information into clear, concise and persuasive content.
• Help develop win themes, key messages and proposal narratives that differentiate our offer.
• Review and edit material provided by others, ensuring consistency of message, tone and quality throughout the submission.
• Coordinate contributions from different stakeholders, maintaining momentum against the bid programme and key submission deadlines.
• Ensure submissions comply fully with tender requirements, corporate brand standards and agreed bid management processes.
• Support the development of presentations and other collateral required throughout the tender process.
• Develop and maintain a strong library of case studies, evidence, project experience and reusable best‑practice content.
• Support post‑bid reviews and capture lessons learned to continually improve the quality and effectiveness of future submissions.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Previous experience as a Bid Writer, Senior Bid Writer, Bid Coordinator or similar work‑winning professional, preferably within a main contractor or construction consultancy.
• A proven ability to produce high‑quality written responses for PQQs, tenders, frameworks and proposals.
• Excellent written English with the ability to take complex or technical information and turn it into persuasive, easy‑to‑understand content.
• An understanding of the construction tender process and the different disciplines involved in developing a successful bid.
• Strong interviewing skills and the confidence to obtain the right information from busy technical and operational stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to detail, particularly around compliance, accuracy and consistency.
• Strong organisation and time‑management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to build relationships with colleagues at all levels.
• The ability to challenge content constructively rather than simply accepting what has been provided.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, with experience of Adobe InDesign beneficial.

Please Note:

To be eligible for this opportunity, candidates must already possess the right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position, and applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered.

This is a crucial office based role, therefore applicants must be able to commute to the office in Solihull on a daily basis.

We are VINCI Building

Operating from our network of offices throughout England and Wales, VINCI Building delivers new build, refurbishment and associated fitout works, with particular expertise in the education, healthcare, industrial, air, retail, commercial and mixed‑use sectors.

We focus on technical excellence and experience to sustainably deliver best value for our clients. We understand and respond to the challenges of the modern built environment.

Our goal is always to build strong partnerships with our customers and stakeholders to ensure success by unlocking your strategic vision and turning it into a deliverable scheme. We are active in a wide range of sectors and value bands, allowing us to provide a regional service with national resources.

VINCI Building delivers complex projects and programmes, blending our corporate stability with the local knowledge our teams offer.

Sustainability is at the heart of our approach, and we are committed to respecting and protecting the environment in everything that we do. We take the time to understand and make a positive difference to each community that we work in to ensure that our projects leave a lasting legacy.

Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) at VINCI Building is about recognising and celebrating each other’s differences and what they bring to the team. Harnessing this diversity and applying the experiences, abilities and unique qualities of individuals will enhance our business; therefore, we commit to equity of opportunity and fair treatment of all current and potential employees and encourage job applications from all.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process, please contact us directly.

VINCI Building recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.

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