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Location – London (Aldgate House)

Hybrid

Role Purpose

To support the development of content and strategy and to research, develop and review high-scoring answers to produce winning bids as part of a successful proposals team. The successful candidate will join a close-knit, highly motivated, and supportive team who are responsible for working on over £5bn worth of tenders annually.

Candidate profile

The ideal candidate for this job should be able to write effective, concise, and compelling content and to be able to work to set deadlines. A professional individual, with both public sector framework and private sector bid writing experience – is essential. The individual's commitment to delivering a high-quality service will drive best practice and continuous improvements into the tender process.

The successful candidate will work closely with bid managers, directors, subject matter experts and proposal designers to create high-impact submissions that clearly respond to our clients' needs.

They will be responsible for ensuring our written responses are bespoke and score highly against marking criteria. They will be confident to mentor others in writing and collaborate with colleagues to support the team's overall development and learning. A portion of the role will also involve contributing to our Bid Asset Library ‘The Hive'.

Good communication skills are fundamental, as well as the ability to build relationships with people both in person and over Teams. You must be equally comfortable liaising with site-based personnel and directors at head office and a confident, friendly personality is crucial.

Key Responsibilities

Provide support to subject matter experts to write engaging and technically correct content for tenders and PQQs
Attend start-up meetings with production team to agree strategy, content, and actions
Work with bid managers, directors, or project managers to assign responsibilities for technical responses
Provide written content before tenders arrive
Dissect questions and produce answer plans to maximise relevant information extracted from subject matter experts
Lead answer planning workshops
Ensure a consistently high standard of content is available on the bid asset library, working with others, to ensure it is being regularly maintained and updated
Review, edit and write material for case studies, project profiles and CVs
Build trust and credibility with stakeholders from across the business
Support your colleagues in the proposals team at critical deadline
Support others to peer review content
Help others grow and develop, carrying out mentoring and support
Support our early careers programmes to work with graduates
Lead or support in the induction of new team members and carry out training
Input and lead presentations, team meetings and away days

Essential Skills and Experience

Experience from within the Construction Industry; and industry specific knowledge of Bid Writer roles and responsibilities within the construction market
Experience of public sector bids is essential with private sector bid experience being beneficial
Evidence of having produced written content for successful bids
successful bids
Good quality research skills and effective questioning techniques
Evidence of the ability to mentor and develop other writers and an enthusiasm for this is essential
High level of working knowledge of MS Word including working with templates
Ability to influence and persuade others and have strong attention to detail
Exceptional proof reading and editing skills
Must be able to take full accountability for their role, judgements and decisions
Must be organised and able prioritise own
A knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics would be advantageous but not essential as training will be given

Qualifications

APMP qualified or an openness to join our corporate programme to become qualified
Preferably qualified to degree level or similar in a relevant field

Our workplace strategy ‘Work for You’ includes flexible working practices such as hybrid working where employees can split their working time between work and home. We also recognise that some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please discuss this with your recruiter, during the hiring process.

ISG is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.