Description
Interim Bid Writer; City of London; Starts September; Reference: R151
The company
Our client is a global specialist recruitment group focused on mid- to senior-level roles across the disciplines of Business Technology & Transformation, Finance & Accounting, Legal, HR, Engineering and Pharmaceuticals. Based in the City of London with offices world-wide they have relationships with the specialist candidates that clients cannot find themselves. They operate globally, with specialist research teams spanning over 40 countries focused on sourcing the top 20 per cent of individuals locally and internationally. They are now looking for a Bid Writer to develop winning bids for opprtunities that range from the provision of small teams of specialists through to large complex PSL submissions.
The Role
Working in the Communications Team and reporting to the Communications Manager, the role is to write and manage high quality and engaging UK and global bid proposals as part of the sales process to successfully win new, and maintain existing accounts, driving productivity and increasing NFI. This is an Interim role to cover six months Maternity Leave
This is a relatively new role within the Company and part of the work will be to building relationships with senior stakeholders - managers and sales staff - to help embed bid processes and raise awareness across the business.
Key Job Responsibilities:
Project management - project managing the end-to-end bid process, including coordinating and managing all sales and ops required parties
Facilitation - liaising with senior business leaders to determine key messages and agreeing the business approach information necessary to write specialist, professional and engaging copy
Client bid and presentation production - writing specialist, professional, high quality and engaging commercial responses whilst continuously looking for ways to improve quality, increase efficiencies (eg standard response library and slide portfolio) and ultimately improve win rates
Relationship building - a key part of the role will be building relationships with internal stakeholders to maintain support and buy-in to the bid process
Analysis reporting - producing and communicating monthly win/loss analysis information to senior business leaders. Monitoring trends and driving behaviours determined by outcomes
Branding expertise - working as a brand ambassador to ensure all aspects of the branding guidelines and writing style guide are adhered to
Content management - maintaining proposal templates (slide and document libraries)
Person Specification
Written - fundamental to the role - exceptional technical writing and communication skills, with an ability to adapt written tone of voice to different brands while maintaining a consistent house style. Perhaps most importantly, comfortable delivering high-volume output to tight timescales
Questioning and listening - a keen understanding of the briefing process, knowing how to extract the right information from senior stakeholders that can be translated into effective written messages
Confidence - must be confident and adept at challenging, questioning and influencing senior stakeholders to extract knowledge and information required to write engaging, quality and timely copy
Proactivity - continuously looking for ways to improve quality and efficiency
Commercial awareness - always focused on the purpose of role (to drive NFI and productivity) and looking for ways to demonstrate value in achieving this eg logging and promoting bid wins
Process/response management - must be able to manage the process, with often more than one project to work on at any one time. This can include managing the response team, scheduling and leading meetings. Ensuring timely delivery of bids and presentations.
Experience requirements
- Minimum of two years bid writing/process management experience in a fast moving environment.
- Proven capability in the compilation and production of proposals within a complex bid environment
- Experience in Recruitment, Journalism, PR or marketing and communications qualifications or background would be an advantage.
Skills/Competences
- Advanced MS Word skills & proficient in MS Office.
- Template management in line with company branding.
- Time Management/prioritisation skills.
- Writing abilities and English language skills.
- Ability to communicate at a senior level.
- Ability to coach sales teams in persuasive writing and proposal best practice.
- Leadership throughout the bid process
Next action:
CVs, in MS Word format.