Mills & Reeve is a national law firm renowned for its people-first culture. Following continued growth and a number of high-profile panel appointments, we are seeing a significant increase in tender activity and we're now looking for an experienced Senior Bid Advisor to join our established and high-performing Bid Team.
As a Senior Bid Advisor, you'll play a key role in maintaining and strengthening the firm's impressive bid win rate. Joining a collaborative Bid Team of seven, you'll take responsibility for managing and delivering tenders across the firm, working closely with partners, lawyers and senior stakeholders.
This is a varied and rewarding role that combines bid project management with high-quality content drafting. You'll ensure bid best practice is followed at every stage of the process, while also contributing strategically to complex and high-value bids. You'll be supported by a Head of Bids who actively champions team development and progression, with real opportunities to grow your career.
You'll bring significant bids experience, ideally gained within a professional services environment, and be confident operating at both a strategic and operational level.
You'll be:
- Commercially astute, with a strong understanding of clients and their industries
- An excellent writer, with strong drafting, editing and proofreading skills
- Highly organised, able to manage multiple deadlines and work under pressure
- A proactive self-starter with strong project management and communication skills
- Confident influencing and persuading senior stakeholders and speaking with clients
- IT literate, comfortable using tender portals and embracing AI-enabled bid tools
- Flexible, collaborative and positive with a good sense of humour
A CIM marketing qualification would be advantageous, but is not essential.
Your role will include:
- End-to-end project management of bids across public and private sector opportunities
- Drafting, editing and producing compelling bid content using plain English and clear sales messages
- Advising and guiding stakeholders through the bid process with confidence and credibility
- Using the firm's automated bid system and centralised knowledge base, including AI tools, to work efficiently and effectively
- Collaborating on strategic bids alongside senior members of the Bid Team
- Supporting legal teams through to presentation stage where required
- Ensuring accuracy, consistency and attention to detail across all submissions
- Contributing to continuous improvement of bid systems, processes and best practice
- Supporting wider strategic projects and team initiatives
