Job Title: Facilities Management Bid Writer

Location: Hampshire

Salary: £30,000 to £40,000

Role Overview

To develop excellent facilities management PQQ and tender submissions for public and private sector Facilities Manager opportunities to support my client’s continued growth within the FM industry.

This is a key role within the Business Development Team and will play an integral part of the business growth strategy. To be successful within this role, you must be able to critically analyse client tender documents and develop detailed, relevant, and accurate responses that profile correctly to our prospective clients. We want our documents to stand out from our industry peers and reflect our business objective of delivering engaged, highly efficient service deliver solutions that are designed to add value to our client’s core business model.

As a business, we understand implicitly that our clients are unique and that to be successful, we need to develop solutions that reflect their business needs rather than simply implement a compromise because it works elsewhere. This level of engagement needs to begin within Bid Development process, growing through mobilisation and into live working. Simply cut and pasting existing bids is not what we want or expect from this role.

As part of your role, you will support the bid development process beyond simply writing documents and will be expected to attend site visits, client events, business promotion events together with other marketing activity that the business carries out.

Whilst industry experience is an obvious advantage, the ability to be able to correctly interpret and respond to the client’s requirements in a clear, fluent, and intelligent manner is an imperative.

Experience & Qualifications

1. The ability to read & write English is a prerequisite for this role

2. Experience of working within the FM and or construction industry

3. 1-3 years of bid writing experience within the FM or allied sector

4. Ideally a prolific storyteller with experience of journalistic writing

5. Proven ability to solve problems creatively

6. Proven ability to be able to pull together information from multiple sources (internal & external)

7. Experience of working within a busy Bid Development team

8. Excellent analytical skills

9. Strong interpersonal skills and extremely resourceful

Competencies

1. Commercially and financially aware

2. Ability to identify, develop and assist with business development opportunities

3. Excellent organisational skills with the ability to balance competing priorities and workloads

4. High level of influencing and relationship management skills

5. Ability to work effectively and delegate operational activity

6. Excellent Report writing and Presentation skills

7. Ability to work unsupervised and take responsibility

8. Ability to act decisively and remain calm under pressure

9. Ability to make decisions and align delivery with strategic objectives