1st Step Looking for Bid Writer/Senior Bid Writer at Chelmsford, Essex Full Time

Bid Writer/Senior Bid Writer
Essex

1st Step are working alongside a leading Civil Engineering and Highways contractor based in Essex who are looking for a Bid Writer/Senior Bid Writer to join their established team.

Responsibilities:
– Creating and maintaining content for bid responses.
– Working with the Bid Manager and other specialists within the business to create written material for bid responses.
– Incorporating comments received from reviewers.
– Editing.
– Ensuring the writing structure and words used in the bid persuasively convey the offer to the customer.
– Edit for grammar, punctuation, capitalisation, clarity, readability, consistency and persuasiveness.
– Actioning and updating the clarifications log where actions are assigned to the Bid Writer.
– Presentations.
– Supporting bid teams with written material for presentations.
– Knowledge management (bid library).
– Following submission of the bid and feedback from the customer, work with the Bid Manager to update the bid library with new/updated information gathered from the bid process.
– Developing customer-focused visual information that highlights the features, benefits and discriminators of our bid.
– Communicating with other members of the bid team to conceptualise and create visual elements to persuade the customer.

The successful candidate will have:
– Proven experience of bid writing on highway maintenance projects.
– Able to communicate well at stakeholder and board level.
– Proactive work ethic, self-driven and flexible.
– Relevant education and training.
– Proficient in MS Office and design software.