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Bid Writer
April 20, 2023 | Comments Off on Bid Writer
Location: Flexible
Contract: Permanent - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know.
Responsibilities
As a Bid Writer, you will support bidding excellence on a wide range of frameworks and projects across Health Sector. You will be responsible for understanding tender documents and Client requirements, developing win themes and answer plans, engaging expert contributors, articulating Client-focussed solutions, and Kier added value
Developing and producing high-quality written submissions across our construction business, you will work closely with our regional bid teams in response to client specific needs, key responsibilities include but not be limited to:
- Monitoring quality bid performance, capturing lessons from feedback
- Identifying win themes, market trends, and future USPs
- R&D into win themes, communicating outputs and action plans
- Writing compelling, accurate, evidence-based, concise responses
- Leading quality submission written responses for framework and call-off bids
- Apply our bid process and support its continuous improvement
- Understanding Client needs, including reviewing tender requirements
- Collaborating with the bid manager to develop compelling win themes
- Leading collaborative answer planning, developing detailed answer plans
Who are we looking for?
Working on healthcare projects valued up to and over £100m, we are looking for like for like industry experience. You will need to hold the relevant qualifications, along with a solid history of working on bid writing. Key attributes that we're looking for in applicants include:
- An excellent facilitator and presenter
- High level written skills with the ability to sell.
- Self-motivated and resourceful with the ability to prioritise workload
- Graphic design experience
- Ability to format and present visually stimulating construction documents and produce PowerPoint presentation to a high standard.
- Ability to communicate with senior people / teams
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.
Benefits at Kier
We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- Company car/car allowance
- 26 days holidays per annum + bank holidays
- Pension matched up to 7.5%
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:
Who is Kier?
We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives:
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
You can see more about our D&I action plan here:
Closing date: 20th May 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.