Bid Writer
Fantastic opportunity for an experienced Bid Writer of someone with a background in Tender submissions - Leeds based, permanent, competitive salary, great culture and environment.
Bid Writer / Tender Coordinator
Location - Cross Green, Leeds (LS9)
Salary - to £38,000
Based at our Leeds Head Office with easy access via the M1 / M62 & M621, the position of Bid Writer plays a key role in the success of NEO. The successful candidate reporting directly to the Managing Director, will hold day to day responsibility for the preparation of technical tender proposals required in response to long term service contracts and one-off projects for passive fire protection services across the social housing, education, health care and student accommodation sectors.
Whilst previous experience in Bid Writing would be preferred, we’re opening to considering someone with a background in tender submissions who has commercial acumen, is organised and has great communication skills.
Key Deliverables
Your primary responsibility will be to write high quality bid responses for new tenders.
This will see you coordinating and completing the bid response process, developing, and maintaining a knowledge base of ‘standard’ answers and templates, as well as identifying ways to improve the quality and consistency of the bid response process.
To do this effectively you will need to liaise with other teams and senior stakeholders ensuring submissions are made on time and to the required quality.
Applicants must have excellent communication skills, especially written English grammar, spelling & vocabulary, combined with the ability to understand technical concepts and tender questions then provide clear concise responses whilst working to tight deadlines and challenging targets.
Key Responsibilities:
- Compile, edit, and proofread commercial proposals which contain technical content ensuring that these are presented in a professional and concise manner.
- Review and revise documents prepared by others and coordinate the preparation of those materials in a completed bid document.
- Determine the scope and timeline of new bids.
- Lead and coordinate the preparation of tender bids ensuring other contributors provide information on time to the correct standard.
- Develop knowledge of the business, and its services by reading and reviewing previous bid submissions and spending time with technical and commercial functions.
- Develop a library of documentation and reference materials.
- Review and improve other customer materials and develop a consistent set of standards for other commercial functions to follow.
- Develop a set of standard templates for less complex bids.
Experience / Skills:
- Writing experience in a technical authoring field
- Technical awareness including an understanding of building service solutions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to provide leadership and guidance to less experienced personnel.
- Able to work to tight timescales particularly when developing proposals.
- Substantial experience using MS Office including Word and PowerPoint.
- Team and action oriented; proactive in prioritising own workload and assigned areas of responsibility to others.
- Able to influence assertively to get results.
What you get:
- Salary to £38,000
- Holidays 29 days holiday per annum (including 8 statutory holiday days) rising by 1 day for each year of service up to a maximum 33 days / annum.
- Hours of work 08:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday 08:00 to 16:30 on Fridays
- Benefits package comprising:
- Medicash Health Care Plan
- Life insurance
Neo Property Solutions, part of the PTSG Group, deliver specialist passive fire protection services, including Fire Compartmentation Surveys, Fire Door Surveys, Fire Stopping and Fire Compartmentation Works, executed as part of a rolling programme of annual inspection and/or rectification works required across multi-occupancy housing, buildings of public amenity, healthcare facilities, education establishments, student accommodation blocks and security sensitive office buildings and workplaces.
Equal Opportunities in Practice
We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
- Department
- Head Office
- Locations
- Leeds
Leeds
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Healthcare scheme -
Benefit 3
Life Insurance
Our Vision
At Neo we develop our people.
We collaborate as a team, regardless of differences.
Working with the local community, we nurture young talent and promote apprenticeship opportunities.
We arm our people with the skills and competences to meet the expectations our clients and customers have from us.
About Neo Property Solutions
Neo Property Solutions Limited is a recognised specialist in the provision of technically challenging passive fire protection solutions.
Our services include Fire Compartmentation Surveys, Fire Door Surveys, Fire Stopping and Fire Compartmentation Works, executed as part of a rolling programme of annual inspection and/or rectification works required across multi-occupancy housing, buildings of public amenity, healthcare facilities, education establishments, student accommodation blocks and security sensitive office buildings and workplaces.
Bid Writer
Fantastic opportunity for an experienced Bid Writer of someone with a background in Tender submissions - Leeds based, permanent, competitive salary, great culture and environment.
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