Job description
Sewell Wallis have an excellent opportunity for a Bid Writer to join an innovative and progressive company based close to Baildon. This is a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract with a high chance of the role going permanent. Reporting to the Sales and Marketing Manager you will be situated in an immaculate and open plan office. As the Bid Writer you will coordinate the completion and submission of high-quality and high impact pre-tender material, tenders, presentations and associate documents. Our client strongly believes in promoting internally and offer an excellent benefits package and first class training.The role: Bid Writer
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000+ depending on experience
Location: Baildon
Your responsibilities will include:
* Coordinating bid activities for the company and work with assigned bid team to assist with production and support business growth
* Writing compelling content for tender opportunities i.e. market information
* Leading the management of bid process - reviewing bid notices preparing bid plans, tracking wins and losses and producing a report
* Providing input into management information on the progress of existing opportunities and in-bid activity as required
* Supporting the Sales and Client Development teams in delivering sales projects from initial expression of interest through to final client acquisition and handover to operational business
* Coordinating bids, working in partnership with the appointed business development manager to deliver agreed outputs within timescales set by the client
* Contributing to the review and design of bid materials to ensure that these are consistent with market expectations of a leading-edge provider
* Managing the Bid Library to ensure this is kept up to date and relevant; managing elements of the bidding process from collecting and maintaining up to date experience and project images, exemplar answers, clients references and testimonials to co-ordinating win/ launch sessions, producing best practice responses and maintaining oversight of all bid related activity
* Keeping the CRM updated
As the successful candidate you should:
* Be organised, disciplined and take a structured approach to tasks
* Have a willingness to learn about the business and market
* Possess strong written communication skills and experience of writing (essays/ dissertation/ projects), ideally technical writing
* Have a high level of personal organisation and time management, as well as ability to work flexibly
* Be adept at creating and managing documents in standard MS Office formats (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Projects)
* Have a flexible and proactive approach to work with the ability to work to deadlines and varying workloads
* Be able to write in an engaging manner to suit a variety of audience
* Be degree educated
* Be experienced in producing high quality written work to tight deadlines
For more information please contact Chloe Wilford
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.
Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
