Bid Writer

Henry Boot Construction is a successful and well-established main contractor, part of the Henry Boot Group. We pride ourselves on our first-class quality of work and long-lasting relationships with our clients, and we now need a Senior Bid Writer to join our established and successful team in **Dronfield.**

**Your Role**

This role is essential for the authoring and production of bids and supporting individual bid teams to maintain compliance and accuracy in tender submissions.

Key Accountabilities:

- Operate as an essential team member, working collaboratively and flexibly with Proposals Manager, Bid Coordinator and Bid Manager to create work-winning submissions;
- Contribute to content creation in support of Win Plans and Answer Plans taking account of word limits / other limitations as identified in instructions to tender;
- Lead on quality-oriented client deliverables, collate and refine HBC responses for submission;
- Research, author and format responses with inputs from the ‘boiler-plate’ library and engagements with bid team members;
- Coordinate response inputs from HBC colleagues, professional and construction supply chain partners. Coach and assist bid team to create compelling content;
- Ensure on-time review (including technical, peer and specialist) and sign-off is achieved on all quality-related content to accord with bid-specific authorisation levels and programme;
- Publish client deliverables in a compliant format to achieve tender deadlines;
- As required, perform as front-line on client comms on opportunity and tender management, supporting pre
- construction and BD teams to monitor online portals;
- As required, manage SQ and ITT files as complete and accurate at all times, ensuring that bid teams have access to the most up-to-date information;
- As required, download and upload SQ and ITT information through the clients’ prescribed route. Track and manage correspondence;
- As required, perform as the primary link between bid team and the client for document management, Tender Queries and cascade of amendments;
- As required, identify tender deliverables and support Proposals Manager and/or Bid Manager to coordinate programme for internal and external resources to achieve prescribed deadlines;
- Proactively contribute in start-up, mid tender and red review meetings;
- Produce a range of bid-winning and client-facing collateral including case studies, presentations and proposal documents;
- Contribute to the operation and future development of the Company by communicating your suggestions and providing relevant information to the Proposals Manager;
- Provide reports to the Proposals Manager as and when requested;
- To report on a regular basis or as necessary to the Proposals Manager highlighting business opportunities, areas of concern or uncertainty;
- Maintain and build good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including suppliers, clients, prospective clients, sub-contractors and employees.

**About You**

Ideally, you will have experience with a range of procurement types including frameworks, single and two-stage tenders. Additionally, you will have experience operating across multiple simultaneous bids.

**Our Offer**

We have a competitive and progressive benefits package to help shape and support you inside and outside of work.
- We pay you a competitive salary - we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and gender pay parity;
- We share our future financial success with our bonus share scheme;
- We invest in your future with our pension plan provided by AVIVA;
- We protect your loved ones by giving a life assurance benefit based on multiples of salary;
- We support you when you might have health concerns for you or your family with our AVIVA Digital GP app;
- We will help you manage the balance of work and home with agile working (where possible) and flexibility to ensure that you can be there for those important life events;
- We give you 24 days of annual leave, with the ability to buy additional leave;
- We support a complete business closure between Christmas and New Year, which does not require you to use your annual leave entitlement;
- We give you enhanced pay if you take leave due to becoming a parent; however, you become a parent;
- We support your career aspirations; we are committed to personal growth and internal talent development;
- We offer you access to our Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, which includes access to e-bikes;
- We support you when you need external support with our Employee Assistance Programme.

**About Us**

We are Henry Boot Construction Limited; an award-winning contractor committed to our people, customers, service and products. Your wellbeing is a fundamental aspect of how we operate, as demonstrated by our excellent health & safety record and our people's ongoing development and loyalty. We always have something exciting happening, and we want you to be a part of it.

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