Bid Writer
As our new Bid Writer, you will join a highly successful work winning team with a track record of winning major rail bids. Over the next five years, we are looking to break into new markets including highways, energy, and utilities. You will work on every element of bidding including win strategy, storyboarding, and bid writing to produce market leading submissions.
In between bids you will focus on developing our case study library, working closely with our operational teams to capture evidence for use in future bids. You will also help to develop the bidding capabilities of our subject matter experts through training, mentoring and support.
The role will be based in one of our regional offices in Chorley, Birmingham, Carlisle, or Normanton with the flexibility of hybrid working.
As an experienced Bid Writer and reporting to our Bid Manager, your duties will include:
* Producing professionally written EOI, PQQ and ITT responses that consistently win work.
* Leading responses from storyboarding through to final submission.
* Driving continuous improvement and innovation throughout the bid process.
* Developing case studies, collateral, CVs, and evidence to support long term positioning.
* Leading and developing bid writing competency across Story.
* Supporting the development of win strategies and capture plans.
Requirements
* Proven experience as a bid writer, ideally for a tier one contractor.
* Knowledge of the civils and/or rail industry would be beneficial but not essential.
* Track record in working on and winning complex, high value bids.
* Self-motivated, used to working under pressure and to strict deadlines.
* Forensic attention to detail.
* Advanced experience of using Microsoft Word
* APMP member desirable
Benefits
At Story Contracting, we invest in our people. We provide award-winning training and development opportunities for all employees to help you get to where you want to be in your career.
In addition to a competitive salary and pension, we show we care about our people by offering a health cash plan and wellbeing support to keep you fit and well - inside and outside of work.
Our agile working policy allows for a mixture of office and home working, and flexible working arrangements are available so that our people are engaged to give their best.
We care about our communities too and offer our employees two paid for volunteering days each year to spend as a team or individually.