Graduate Bid Writer

**About The Role**:
As a Graduate Bid Writer, you will be a key member of our Bid team (part of the Sales & Strategy team), supporting six diverse businesses within the Energy Division. We will train you to develop compelling written and visual content that wins us new business through commercial proposals, formal tender processes and negotiations. You will develop proposal structures, lead storyboard sessions with bid team members, and draft written responses and visual content that conveys our strengths in the most persuasive way possible, gaining maximum quality scores where formal assessment criteria exist.

You will take on smaller aspects of a bid before taking full ownership and delivering completed written and visual content to the bid manager against agreed timelines, escalating and managing issues as required. Working with multiple functions and business units, you will manage numerous priorities and deadlines, whilst ensuring the content library is updated for re-use.

You will report to the Bid Manager.

**Hybrid role - 2 days in the office a week.**

**What you will bring to the role**...**

You’ll be a professional, dynamic and resilient individual who is focussed on quality outputs within sometimes challenging timescales. You will be a team player who enjoys a varied role and is interested in the technologies and services that are transforming the energy sector. You will have a passion for, and ability to work to, tight deadlines where detail and professionalism are critical.

We want someone who wants to learn new things and feels comfortable working in a company that is growing and evolving fast to meet the rapid changes in the energy market.

You will need to be comfortable with the tight deadlines and pressures of working in a business development environment, as well as the highs and lows of wins and the occasional near miss.

Essential
- A relevant degree (English, journalism, marketing, business, etc.).
- Ability to write clearly and concisely for readers who are busy or distracted
- Strong written English language skills
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Able to engage confidently with internal stakeholders and clients to obtain the relevant information to support our bids
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence at a senior level
- Exceptional time management / prioritisation skills
- Advanced MS Word skills and proficient in MS Office
- Prepared to work the hours necessary to meet pre-agreed proposal deadlines
- Able to travel nationally when required

Desirable:

- Design skills / qualifications
- Knowledge of and interest in the services and technologies within the utilities sector

**What we offer**
- 25 days holiday + 8 days bank holidays
- Pension Scheme and Life Assurance Cover
- Online GP Service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Access to My Rewards which provides amazing reductions on 1000’s of purchases including Mobile Phone, Utility bill and top retail brand discounts
- Eye care vouchers
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Recommend a Friend and Earn scheme
- Reward & Recognition Scheme
- At Morrison Data Services we recognise and value the benefits from our workforce diversity. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment to develop a culture where our people feel included and valued._
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**About The Company**:
Morrison Data Services is proud to be the UK’s leading metering services business - and we’re still growing, with some exciting times ahead As an award-winning business, we pride ourselves on our diligence, customer service and expertise. We’re constantly evolving our services, introducing innovative solutions, and using our core capabilities to be at the forefront of the changing needs of the market and our clients.

Morrison Data Services is part of M Group Services, a trusted employer of over 11,000 skilled specialists, delivering a range of essential infrastructure services within the water, energy, transport, and telecommunications sectors in the UK & Ireland.

M Group Services operates in an exciting industry that regularly presents opportunities for growth. In our commitment to the environment and society through our Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) work, we are recognised as ‘Industry Top Rated’, and as a forces-friendly employer, we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant.

We work hard to build and maintain an inclusive environment where our people feel included and valued.