Bid Writer

Bid Writer - Required for our client to join their specialist Civil Engineering contracting business based in West Sussex. The Bid Writer will be working on a prestigious projects within the Heavy Civil Engineering Sector. The company that Bid Writer will be working for are a well-established Civil Engineering contractor, whom work on projects from conception through construction to project delivery. The companies' specialities span across a variety of different sectors including water and waste water, infrastructure and coastal protection.

Bid Writer Position Overview

• Study tender documentation and information provided
• Site visits and discussions with key subcontractors.
• Work with the selected designer and consultants on Design & Build contracts
• Liaise with the client, client designer ad stakeholders when requires
• Liaise with other staff for support (Design, Contracts, Plant, Senior Management)
• Coordinate and produce high quality, accurate and attractive tender documents, responses and presentations
• Understand and define client requirements from tender documents and wider industry knowledge
• Help define the best offer to win each tender
• Decide on the best method to present a persuasive and compelling offer that meets client and tender requirements
• Aid the Estimator to assess & highlight risks that are to be taken by the company subject to tender review process
• Ensure that quality/technical envelope submissions are complete and submitted on time
• Solicit feedback on tender submissions, continually review the content & quality of submissions to increase the company's success rates.

• Degree educated would be desirable
• Experience in effective bid writing
• Association of Bid & Proposal Management professional membership or working towards it
• UK Driving Licence
• Good communication skills
• Knowledge of production of bids/tenders
• Microsoft Office skills -Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

• Salary - £40K - £48K
• 25 Days holiday + BH
• Pension up to 10% match
• Phone and Bonus
• Other benefits to be discussed

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries. We are acting as a Recruitment Agency in relation to this vacancy, and in accordance with GDPR by applying you are granting us consent to process your data, and contact you in relation to this application and the services we offer.