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Job Summary
The Senior Bid Writer is responsible for leading the development, editing and proofing of compliant, concise and compelling bid responses and tender submissions. The Senior Bid writer work with the tender team members to understand client’s requirements and expectations and develop the value proposition, articulating the win themes and solution narrative. This role requires someone who is highly literate with excellent writing skills and project management abilities. You will be comfortable in technical environment, leading deliverables workshops and meetings, working with multi-faceted teams and challenging subject matter experts (SMEs) and question owners to help solution and develop responses that meet tender requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Collecting and maintaining project summaries and value add data collection from live projects and past submissions to support future written responses
Work with cross-functional teams to help devise the win strategy and ensure win themes and value propositions transcend the submission
Analyse client requirements, including compliance and evaluation criteria and produce answer plans to help maximise scores across all responses
Conduct research to gather relevant information and collateral to improve team knowledge and strengthen the response
Develop content, answer plans and responses through to final versions, helping solution and refine the overall approach/strategy/response to maximise scoring. This will include identifying and proposing value-added solutions that enhance a bid’s competitiveness
Proactively engage in the review process, apply quality control and assurance processes and incorporate feedback from the Bid Manager, question owner and/or SMEs within answer plans and responses
Work with graphics to develop any graphics required
Produce and finalise responses and relevant deliverables in line with the overall bid programme,
Ensuring deadlines are met and issues are communicated to the bid management team as early as possible
Provide regular updates and sitreps to the question owner and/or Bid Manager as required
Attend coordination meetings, updating daily leaderboards to notify the wider bid team of progress and response status