Bid Writer
Jackson Hogg is looking to recruit a Bid Writer for a fantastic growing manufacturing company based in Cramlington.
Responsibilities – Bid Writer
- Bid development – including creation of bid plans, drafting responses, editing input from a variety of stakeholders – typically involving contributions from BD, marketing, design, estimating and operations.
- Involved in peer reviews - to make sure the bids are appropriately compelling and commercially attractive.
- Lead on complex proposals, whilst assembling a proposal team with the relevant service knowledge required to win.
- Integrate supply chain and specialist responses into bids and create network of useful contacts and support services to create first class bids and produce aspects of the bid responses.
- Deliver compliant, professionally produced proposals within customer defined timeframes.
- Participate in the development and review of proposal strategies and themes.
- Assist in analysing the RFP/bid requirements against the proposal outline to ensure both compliance and responsiveness to the customer's issues and needs.
- Review completed proposal sections to ensure requirements are adequately addressed and that customer page limits are not exceeded.
- Conduct regular proposal progress status meetings and maintain the proposal schedule.
Required Skills & Experience - Bid Writer
- A strong engineering / construction background preferred
- Very strong Technical drafting/bid writing.
- Strong leadership skills and proven track record of delivering winning proposals.
- Capable of working with a multi-disciplined team to deliver innovative solutions.
- Innovative and proactive problem solver, able to anticipate and plan to mitigate potential issues.
- Must have strong people and influencing skills that can be applied at all levels.
- Excellent verbal, written and presentational skills.
- High attention to detail and accuracy