The Opportunity

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place.

You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges.

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

About Us

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

Our Business and Client Services Team is responsible for working closely and collaboratively with existing and potential clients, internal teams and alliance partners, positioning the Company at the forefront of its chosen markets and we are seeking a Bid Writer to further augment our team.

You will be excited by the opportunity to:

• Complete full reviews of tender information, contracts, and specifications to understand the bid requirements, weightings, and scoring criteria for opportunities up to £50m
• Liaise with digital and data subject matter experts to obtain essential information and to design the overall solution
• Identify win themes that are concise and consistent, with a compelling message throughout the bid for the client to clearly understand
• Write bid responses to meet the solution design; establishing the authentic “voice” of the organisation so that responses resonate with the client
• Push responses to be the best they can be, utilising every resource available
• Commission new or amended content including standard responses as requirements change
• Review and critique simpler bids written by others to ensure that across the organisation bid submissions are the best they can be
• Develop knowledge management for bids and ensuring that knowledge capital is maximised effectively and efficiently
• Ensure collateral for bids is easily accessible and best reflects our services and abilities e.g. case studies, infographics etc
• Learn from bid feedback, ensuring continuous improvement of our proposition development and outcomes

• 5+ years’ professional commercial experience
• Excellent business and persuasive writing skills, preferably with strong experience of writing about technical subject matter
• Bid management experience, preferably within a B2B or professional services environment
• Degree in a relevant subject
• Able to work under pressure and to short deadlines with a clear sense of priority within a fast-paced and agile environment
• Excellent work planning capabilities and time management skills
• Ability to balance conflicting deadlines and priorities
• A meticulous attention to detail
• Punctuality, reliability, and a clear commitment to your role

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY© – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individuals need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Weekly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
• Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.