Bid Writer
Salary £40,850 per annum
37 Hours per week
As Norse Group continues to engage with new business partners and tender for further opportunities, we are in a position to recruit a Bid Writer into our successful Bid Team, based at our Head Office in Norwich, Norfolk. The bid team forms an integral part of securing new business ventures to the group, and your role within this team will be to influence the tendering process by delivering creative and articulate content on a range of documentation.
As Bid Writer for Soft FM, you will produce tender responses and proposals for Norse Group’s facilities management businesses, focussing on the critical activities we carry out on daily basis. Writing with clarity and persuasiveness and working closely with operational colleagues, you will articulate the business’ commercial approach and technical capability to promote the benefits of working with Norse. Principle service lines will include: Catering, Building Cleaning, Security, Grounds Maintenance, Waste Management.
Main responsibilities
- Produce bids and proposals that articulate clearly the business’ offer in an accurate and compelling way.
- Establish priorities and target dates for information gathering, writing, review, and approval of each bid response in order to meet deadlines.
- Take ownership of all technical response content throughout the duration of the bid.
- Work with Technical Leads to refine content by interviewing/questioning relevant parts of the business.
- Liaise with estimating and commercial management colleagues to understand and articulate the commercial elements of each bid or proposal
- Work closely with bid writing colleagues to bring ideas and fresh thinking to the department and identify opportunities for improvement and development.
- Communicate and influence at a senior level, including participation in key review meetings and the presentation of management information alongside the Bid Manager.
Whilst these will be your main responsibility, you will be flexible across other disciplines to support the wider bid team when tender volume or diversity requires. For example, supporting a bid which includes both Hard and Soft FM services, or a ‘design, build, maintain, support’ project.
There will be opportunity for personal development through the APMP programme, enabling you to achieve recognised qualifications through the bid and proposal world’s leading industry body.
Our successful candidate
- Demonstrable experience (minimum 3 years) of bid writing with evidence of market leading success.
- Proven knowledge of bid processes, and bidding techniques.
- APMP Certification to Foundation, or equivalent.
- Ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines and to apply a flexible approach to prioritising a diverse workload.
- Full UK Driving Licence to meet any travel requirements of the role.
Our offer
- Salary £40,850 per annum
- 25 Days annual leave + bank holidays.
- Stat nest pension.
- 4+4 sickness scheme.
We are committed to employment practices and behaviours which encourage diversity, promote equality of treatment and eliminate unlawful and or unfair discrimination.
Please read the attached job description and person specification to ensure you meet the criteria for the role before applying.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. If you have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful and will not be progressed to the next stage.
