Bid & Content Writer

Bid and Content Writer required for an inspiring civil engineering company, a long established, yet growing business in Southampton. The role plays a fundamental part of the bid team, who's members are all, without exception - friendly and jovial personalities. The company has a successful trading history spanning 4 decades, and 300% growth in the last three years, it's a undoubtedly a great time to join this business.The company has a great culture for continuous training and personal development and offer strong career opportunities for those wishing to progress. Crucuically, the company undertake criticial and essential infrastrucuture, which are often government backed schemes and framewworks making this is a compartively stable sector. You will: * Supporting the Work Winning Manager on bids, pitches and proposals * Writing or rewriting a section. * Looking for and crafting good evidence and case studies. * Promoting bid activities internally through the intranet and other internal communication channels * Attending customer / bid events or site visits * Preparing the bid programme and schedule of deliverables including setting key meeting dates * Preparing win plans and other documentation for presentation * Attending kick-off and progress meetings either in person or by conference call with bid team members * Attending workshops to develop win themes, the commercial strategy or elements of our technical solution * Tracking bid progress against programme * Assisting in developing a coherent solution to meet client requirements * Preparing for the handover of the winning bid to the delivery team * Supporting a bid wash-up meeting so lessons learnt can be brought forward to the next bid. Bids will vary in duration, size and complexity: from a few weeks, through to multi-stage negotiated processes, with contract values anything from £50,000 through to £(phone number removed) p.a. and may include civil, road, rail and other infrastructure projects. Bid stages to support include Soft Market Tests (working with Business Development colleagues), Expressions of Interest, PQQ, ITT/ITN, ISOS/ISDS, BAFO as well as closedown and handover to the mobilisation/delivery team Job Requirements What are the requirements? Essential - * Relevant Industry qualification (Minimum HND/HNC. BEng/BSc or equivalent preferred) * Good understanding of construction and civil engineering industry practises and methods * Highly proficient in using document production software to produce compelling proposals (Microsoft Word, Excel etc) * Driving License Non-Essential / Desirables – * Project Management qualification (such as APMP/ PRINCE2 etc) * Use of graphics packages such as Adobe suite, InDesign etc * Knowledge of public and private sector procurement methodologies There will be a generous package, which would be discussed on an individual basis. Here's just some of the other benefits: * Pension Auto Enrolment – 5% from Employee + 3% from Employer = 8% Pension * Holidays = 25 Days + Bank Holidays (5 Days holiday reserved for xmas shut down). * Mileage / Fuel payable at current government rates * Annual Attendance to family fun day * Sponsorship with the Academy if candidates would like to undertake further learning or training * Flexible working to suit employee and family needs * Rewards scheme free of charge – discounts to hundreds of high street stores * An annual bonus has historically been paid, which in recent years has been 2% of salary Interviews will initially take place via video link so that progress can be made during the lockdown. If you require further information - please contact Tristan Prior