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Bid Coordinator

June 10, 2021 | Comments Off on Bid Coordinator

Bid Co-ordinator

Location: Flexible with some travel to Rushden, Northamptonshire

Business?Area: Regional Building Strategic Projects

Contract: Permanent, full time

Building Futures. Building Teams. Building Careers.

Being one of the leading regional builders in the UK means many things to the team here at Kier Group. Our people are trusted to deliver projects of all sizes and complexities, across very diverse sectors, throughout the country. Join us and you could be involved in building anything from a strategic asset costing hundreds of millions of pounds, to a small-budget school extension that creates priceless classroom space. Whatever you do, you'll be making a difference on projects that matter, every day of your working life.?

Key Responsibilities:
Our Regional Building Strategic Projects team require a Bid Co-ordinator to assist the wider Bid team, generating profitable tenders for authorisation and submission. You will assist with the production of submissions by co-ordinating the processes of designing the solutions, estimating the costs and planning the implementation of projects in line with our customers' requirements. You will implement and comply with policies, procedures and processes including SHE, pre-construction and risk management.

  • Manage and deliver prequalification questionnaire responses from receipt to submission
  • Produce grammatically correct, highly relevant submissions content
  • Support tender processes from receipt through to submission
  • Consistently meet deadlines
  • Support the team objectives as required
  • Work with bid teams to complete high quality submission documents
  • Effectively engage the wider technical team as required
  • Identify client drivers and requirements
  • Shape each submission to ensure that this is seen as 'bespoke' to each opportunity
  • Ability to challenge and come up with new ideas
  • Consistently ensure an up-to-date library of data for ease of reference by the whole team on future opportunities
  • Work with key people across the business to produce high quality marketing literature
  • Work on any written documents required, such as CVs, project case studies, presentations, award entries, etc
  • Take ownership and responsibility for delivering documents on time and to a high standard
What do we need from you?
A dynamic, articulate, organised individual is required to join our submissions and marketing team. This is an exciting opportunity for an excellent all-round communicator to play a central role in growing the business.

Essential
  • Ability to work to challenging deadlines
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Flexible, dynamic approach to workload
  • Excellent communication skills, especially written grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation
  • Have the ability to structure responses to comprehensively highlight the strengths of the business
  • Inquisitive nature - a desire to ask "why?" and draw information out of technically minded project delivery personnel
  • IT Skills in Windows/Outlook/Word/Excel/PowerPoint
  • Ability to work both independently and under management direction
  • Adobe InDesign & Adobe creative suite experience
  • Interest in graphic design
Desirable

  • Strong bid/proposal writing experience
  • Experience of the construction sector
  • Interest in sustainability or social value
  • Capability to develop winning strategy for opportunities
  • Interest in marketing
You will have proven experience working in a similar role, ideally with a main contractor.


What will you receive?
You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave (with the opportunity to buy or sell holiday), two employee Share Scheme options, together with additional valuable benefits such as:

  • Free Life Assurance
  • Access to a range of attractive Flexible benefit options to tailor your package to suit your lifestyles
  • Flexible and Agile working (dependent on your role)
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to Kier Rewards, our exclusive Discount Shopping Site with deals available at over 800 retailers
  • Plus, many more benefits geared to your wellbeing.?
Pre-employment checks?
It's worth remembering that we'll undertake the relevant/standard employment checks if you're successful in the selection process. This includes taking up your references, as well as checking your ID, driving licence (if appropriate) and your right to work in the UK. Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

Make the journey. Leave a legacy.
Being part of Kier means living our values of being?Collaborative,?Trusted?and?Focused. We all have the potential to shape our world, and it's through these values that we will leave a lasting legacy.

Bring your talent and ambition to Kier and you will be given the scope and opportunity to invest in your own future, to build your expertise and contribute to a rich and diverse culture.

Kier is an inclusive employer.

Closing date: 10th July 2021
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