TSL is a leading international technical engineering and construction partner operating across the UK, Ireland, and Mainland Europe. We focus on design and build contracts for end user clients, specialising in the Food, Pharmaceutical, Logistics, Data Centre and Advanced Manufacturing sectors.
TSL is committed to creating the spaces that enable the fourth industrial revolution, whilst ensuring we leave a positive environmental and social legacy for communities across the world. Our team work with our valued clients and supply chain partners to create a simple agenda concentrated on getting things done. Above all, we are focused on delivering first class projects, executed efficiently, without compromising on safety or quality.
Location
Based at our main office in Chalfont St Peter for the first three months, with opportunities thereafter to be based in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester or Gerrards Cross.
The opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Senior Bid Writer who can make an immediate contribution to complex, high-value tenders and produce compelling submissions within fast-track deadlines.
Working within a team of approximately eight to nine people, you will collaborate closely with your line manager while taking ownership of your work independently. You will be confident, engaging senior subject matter experts, turning technical information into clear proposals and developing persuasive winning themes.
The role offers substantial autonomy for the right person and the opportunity to develop into a leading figure in bidding across the business.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the writing and coordination of complex, high-value tender submissions, managing your contribution from initial brief through to final submission.
- Develop clear winning themes that connect client requirements with TSL's technical capability and approach to delivery.
- Engage senior subject matter experts to gather, challenge and refine technical content.
- Translate complex construction and project-delivery information into concise, persuasive and well-structured responses.
- Produce high-quality proposals at pace, balancing fast-track deadlines with accuracy, consistency and attention to detail.
- Work closely with your line manager to agree priorities, review progress and raise issues early, while remaining self-sufficient in day-to-day delivery.
- Use PowerPoint to create clear, professional proposal presentations and supporting materials.
- Check submissions against tender requirements, ensuring content is complete, coherent and ready for review.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of bid content, templates and ways of working.
What you will bring
Essential experience and skills
- Demonstrable experience leading complex, high-value tenders, engaging senior subject matter experts and driving winning themes.
- Strong proposal-writing, editing and presentation skills, with the ability to make technical information accessible and relevant to the client.
- Confidence managing competing priorities and delivering polished submissions within short timescales.
- The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with a line manager and wider team.
- Strong PowerPoint capability.
- A track record of taking ownership and becoming productive quickly in a new environment.
- We anticipate that suitable applicants will typically bring at least four to five years of relevant experience, with the depth and relevance of their tender experience being particularly important.
- A strong construction background.
- Experience supporting data centre projects.
- Major proposal experience.
- Experience working on fast-track projects.
- Familiarity with Bluebeam.
- Meaningful autonomy and ownership for an experienced bid professional.
- The opportunity to contribute to complex technical construction projects.
- Scope to shape how the business develops and delivers its bidding activity.
- A development opportunity to become a leading figure in bidding for the business.
- A choice of potential bases following the initial three months in Chalfont St Peter.
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