Technical Bid Writer

**Full Time/Permanent**

Our client is an established technology service provider based in the South-West.
They are an exciting, growing business which has developed strong working relationships with prestigious clients who include the MOD, Met Office, UK Hydrographic Office, Forestry Commission, and central government.
This is a hybrid role (office/WFH). Although regular visits to our client's Plymouth HQ will be required, you will also be able to regularly work from your home office. You will be part of a multi-skilled team delivering solutions predominantly based in the South-West but potentially elsewhere in the UK. Your role will be to write bid responses, coordinate the bid process and develop and maintain a bid library. You will also identify ways to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of the bid process.
Activities will include:

- Writing compelling content with clarity and conciseness.
- Ensuring accurate, high-quality bid contributions from all bid stakeholders.
- Working with other bid team members to help them achieve the skills and confidence to write bid narrative themselves.
- Being responsible for the quality of the technical aspects of each bid, ensuring the written documentation and presentations are clear, concise, and compelling.
- Developing and writing all technical elements of tender proposals associated with framework opportunities and one-off major projects across the UK.
- Creating new content and editing existing content, tailoring to suit client requirements.
- Completing sector and client research to better inform bid responses.
- Providing continuous management and development of the bid library.
- Providing regular reports on individual tender progress.
- Produce monthly KPIs for the bid process.
- Reviewing and editing proposal responses for consistency, compliance, win theme incorporation, solution accuracy, and other elements during regular and core team review cycles to create the final proposal submission.

You can work under general direction and plan your own work. You will have writing experience in a technical field and have experience of software development or managing software development.
You can collaborate confidently with team members, users, and our customers. You will communicate fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to technical and non-technical audiences.
You are team and action oriented and are proactive in prioritising your own workload and able to delegate to others.
It may be a requirement that you undertake UK security clearance (BPSS or SC).

**Required Skills**:

- Software development or managing software development experience (in a leadership or management capacity).
- Excellent communicator.
- A high attention to detail with an excellent editing and proofing ability.
- Excellent literacy skills, with an extensive vocabulary.
- Deadline driven with effective time management skills.
- Thrive in a busy environment.
- Ability to multitask and prioritise workload.
- Experience in the required business sector.
- Proven bid team involvement.
- Can demonstrate effective bid writing skills.

**Desired Skills**
- An understanding of Cloud development and deployment practices, particularly AWS and Azure.
- Have worked in Professional Services with experience of Public Sector bidding.

**Benefits**
- 7.5% pension contribution
- Free life insurance
- Private Health Insurance
- Free parking
- Cycle to work scheme
- Training and development
- Flexible working

**Our culture**
Our cultural values have been developed by our employees, with our client’s needs at the forefront of our thinking. Our commitment is to offer cutting-edge solutions, provide support and adapt to meet our customer needs. This would not be possible without the growth mentality and love of technology. We passionately believe in knowledge sharing and continual development.