Bid Management

**Who we are**:
Avove is a new, independent utilities infrastructure business, formed from the utilities division of leading infrastructure services company, Amey.
We design, build and maintain the UK’s utilities infrastructure to help transform local communities for the better.
We are proud to work in partnership with our clients, including Severn Trent, United Utilities, Yorkshire Water, Scottish Water, Northern Powergrid and Scottish Power.

**The Role**:
As Bid Writer you will be responsible for providing writing support to the Bid and Operational Teams, to produce high quality written material for bid submissions. The role requires the ability to work under pressure to deadlines. The completion of PQQ/SQ’s is also a responsibility, when appropriate.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide full-time, embedded writing support to bid team, contributing original written material as appropriate
- Creating high quality content in response to Invitations to Tender - Tailor high quality content to submit as responses to a full spectrum of Utilities tenders
- Quality control of bid content - Ensure language, style and content is accurate, professional, consistent and appropriate for the specific client/sector/decision maker
- Writing / Editing - Write / edit proposal responses from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from BD / Operations / Engineers / Design.
- Develop knowledge of past submissions / bid library - Identify and re-work existing pre-written content where relevant.
- Assist Bid Director/Manager in developing, managing and monitoring progress of submission against bid programme, in particular review process

**Skills and Experience**:

- Experience of the bid process.
- Ability to produce expressive, easy-to-read written material quickly.
- Experience of developing knowledge libraries and document management systems
- Must be organised and methodical, with attention to detail
- Must have confidence and communication skills to be able to interact with a variety of stakeholders at all levels
- MS Office - Word Advanced Level and PowerPoint Advanced Level
- MS Teams and SharePoint - Advanced Level.

**Benefits**:
We offer a competitive salary that is based on proven skills and experience. Hard work is celebrated and rewarded. We recognise that one size doesn’t fit all so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.
- Min. 24 days holiday plus statutory holidays (option to buy more)
- Company pension scheme
- Life assurance
- A selection of lifestyle benefit options
- Financial wellbeing programme
- Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
- We love to give back so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising

Our main value is to “Move Life Forward” and we are committed to developing our colleagues and encouraging personal growth in conjunction with a flexible working approach so everyone can thrive in an inclusive and open environment.