Senior Bid Writer

5 months ago

Derby, United Kingdom Balfour Beatty Full time

**About the role**

Power T&D is about to embark on a journey of unprecedented growth, this is a great opportunity for an experienced bid writer who is looking to maybe take their next step into a Senior Bid Writing role.

Role Purpose:

- Act as the Lead Author to produce professionally written, consistent proposal content that clearly articulates Balfour Beatty's value proposition.

**What you'll be doing**
As a Senior Bid Writer you will:

- Develop Value propositions tailored to customers unique requirements;
- Assist the Bid Managers in developing a proposal structure;
- Conduct answer planning sessions;
- Create response structures and compiling narrative quality responses. Aligned to the customers evaluation criteria and objectives;
- Provide one BB tone of voice across quality submissions;
- Manage content and structure for evidence and case studies;
- Coordinate and manage response review sessions;
- Support with submission graphics and final documents upload;
- Support with bid and systems administration.

**Who we're looking for**
Personal Qualities and Experience:

- Proven skills in producing and editing proposal content within a complex business environment;
- Experienced in leading answer planning sessions, participating in key review meetings/ final document review, content sign off and document production;
- Experience of coordinating and updating a knowledge base system is beneficial;
- Excellent writing skills and ability to communicate professionally with colleagues at all levels of the business;
- Ability to use a range of tools, methods and search engines, to analyse and assimilate data, such as competitor analysis or customer research;
- Collate proposal documents using library/information stores, search engines/corporate directories;
- Ability to work collaboratively with work winning, operational teams and supply chain;
- Must have at least 2 years experience in a similar bid writing role.

Qualifications:

- Certified to APMP Foundation or Practitioner Level;
- Advanced MS Word skills & proficient in MS Office.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
- Balfour Beatty Power T&D is the leader in its core markets of delivering overhead power lines, underground cabling and substations;
- Our mission is to sustainably connect communities and we are a key part in the transition to net zero;
- We are about to embark on an unprecedented journey of growth, with a order book and pipeline spanning the next 8 years;
- Our projects will be delivered utilising an Early Contractor Involvement approach, enabling us to bring the best of our in-house design & engineering capability to bear;
- This role will be a critical part of that growth story and will be shaping some of the UK's most complex and iconic energy projects for decades;
- Ultimately, we will spend the next decade powering up Britain, enabling net zero and bringing the UK energy security

**About us**
Our skilled and dedicated teams deliver a range of proactive and reactive services which support a reliable and safe supply of power flowing to millions of homes and businesses around the world. Our contracts range from 50,000 schemes to 100 million plus major projects.

Balfour Beattys Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions. With experience and expertise across the full spectrum of the electricity grid our teams have capability across overhead lines, cable tunnels, distribution networks and substations. From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support clients in the development of some of the worlds most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full on the Balfour Beatty website.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found on the Balfour Beatty website.

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