Bid Writer

**Our Company**

Inventya is a dynamic and rapidly growing innovation management consultancy offering new approaches to support the development and commercialisation of advanced science and technologies. The company works closely with highly ambitious and innovative SMEs across the UK through offering several key commercial services, including R&D Tax Credits, Consultancy (Market Research, IP), Finance for Growth, Bid Writing and funded programmes - High Growth and Scaleup support. Our culture is at the heart of everything we do and remains vitally important to our growth strategy.

**About the Role**

**Key Requirements**
- Liaising with relevant stakeholders to discuss tender specifications
- Conducting research on the client and project
- Lead the preparation of major tender submissions including coordination, project management and writing as required.
- Responsible for producing high quality written responses for tender questions, meeting all evaluation criteria
- Writing new business tenders and proposals and liaising with internal stakeholders throughout the tendering process.
- Engaging with internal departments and collating their input to create material, which is coherent, compelling and well-structured.
- Carrying out final document reviews.
- Ensuring the timely submission of tenders and other proposals.
- Managing tender clarification questions and messages via tender portals.
- Maintaining an awareness of contracts due for tender and taking responsibility for acquiring tender documentation.
- Take responsibility in each stage of the bid process, from opportunity through to submission and set objectives and targets which will run in line with tender deadlines.
- Transferring writing skills and ability to dissect specifications and client requirements to support the preparation of grant/tender funding submissions to Horizon Europe and similar European schemes.

**Skills / Experience**
- Proven track record in writing, managing and delivering large scale, complex bids, tenders, projects and concurrent, smaller projects, including overseas.
- Writing persuasive and compelling tender documents
- Excellent standard of written English and attention to detail is essential.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; a strong stakeholder manager, team worker, and communicator.
- Conversant within competitive marketplaces.

**Key Measures**
- Compliance with all internal and external policies and legislative requirement
- Consistent positive client feedback
- Consistent achievement of agreed KPIs and target
- Being a key part of the continued company ‘Your Success, Our Commitment’ ethos and culture
- Consistent evidence of behaviours identified and aligned with the company value
- Record and update data regularly into the appropriate CRM systems

**Benefits**
- 23 days annual leave including statutory entitlement
- Statutory parental leave
- Flexible working
- Gym membership
- Healthcare Insurance
- On-site parking

**Salary**: £40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

**Experience**:

- Technical Writing: 4 years (preferred)