Senior Bid Writer
Solirius Consulting
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
About the role
- Setting standards and taking responsibility for crafting accurate, high quality, professional, impactful and hopefully successful bid responses.
- Contribute or lead the development of written proposals and presentations
- Analyse questions, Identify win themes
- Collaborate with cross functional teams on developing bid responses, ensuring accuracy, and alignment with client requirements.
- Ensure consistency of style and quality across responses
- Work with Subject Matter Experts to answer detailed technical questions
- Write content, summarise, shorten, enhance.
- Track bids in progress, outlining potential risks and benefits, as well as the outcomes, collating feedback and providing points for improvement.
- Evaluate incoming bid opportunities against company criteria, managing bid tenders and distributing them to the appropriate departments and teams; prioritise bids based on strategic alignment, potential profitability, and company capability.
- Participate in bid strategy sessions to understand client requirements and competitive landscape.
- Establish and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Representing Solirius, if necessary, at pre-bid meetings.
Requirements
- A strong degree in any discipline - particularly where analysing information and developing written conclusions forms a significant part of the syllabus, or equivalent experience
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken word with an ability to successfully engage with team members, clients and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to write reports, proposals (e.g. dissertations)
- Attention to detail, and strong organisational and time management skills are essential.
- Ability to analyse and condense large amounts of information.
- Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines.
- A good understanding of Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Word and Excel) and Google Suites.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, dependent on experience
- Flexible working / Work from home
- Generous annual discretionary bonus
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- 5 days allocated development training per year
- Contributory pension
- Gym membership
- Private healthcare cover
- Annual away days and social events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
bid writingproposal developmentcontent summarizationrisk analysisstrategic evaluationreport writinginformation analysisdeadline management
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationattention to detailorganizational skillstime managementstakeholder engagement