Bid Writer and Content Manager

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Bid Writer and Content Manager

e.surv Chartered Surveyors and Walker Fraser Steele are the UK's leading residential surveying brands, delivering property risk expertise and residential surveying services for over 35 years. Trusted by high street mortgage lenders, building societies, national landlords, and equity release brands, we complete a property inspection every 12 seconds across the UK and Northern Ireland.

We have an exciting role here at e.surv Chartered Surveyors for a Bid Writer and Content Manager to Manage the whole bid lifecycle. The role involves leading all day-to-day aspects of an individual bid including project management throughout the bid. Content creation and curation, commercial considerations, through to actual submission, outcomes, contracts and onboarding of new clients, and any new products and services for existing clients won through tenders.

Key Responsibilities

• Organise a kickoff meeting with internal stakeholders to qualify a bid process for all new opportunities for e.surv.
• Project managing and co-ordinating inputs from a variety of stakeholders.
• Producing high quality documents to submit to the client and comprehensive details around fee structure, working closely with Senior Management Team and finance.
• Ensuring all the client's questions have been answered as fully as possible, and that the organisation has given itself the best possible chance of success.
• Appreciation of the client needs and values to ensure that as a business, e.surv articulate why we are a good fit for them.
• Liaising with the Business Development team, Finance and Senior Management Team to produce the price element of a bid.
• Ensure that pricing is kept within a locked down and confidential area of the bid response.
• Preparing and reviewing the commercial aspects of the bid, ensuring all services that the client has asked for are included in the final price to the client.
• Provision of comprehensive competitor analysis, to the Senior Management Team during the bid process to support commercial decision making achieved by working closely with Research and the relationship teams if an existing client
• Responsible for submitting a completed bid to an existing or prospective client, on time.
• Edit, proofread, and review all bid documents to ensure accuracy, consistency, and professionalism.
• Arrange all post bid reviews with customers and provide feedback to the Strategic Partnership Director.
• Track the success of bids, provide feedback for continuous improvement, and analyse reasons for bid outcomes.
• Liaising with the Senior Management Team and the wider business development team and legal team to finalise the commercial and contractual elements.
• Timelines are very important at this stage as go live and onboarding could be simultaneous.
• On award, will be responsible for the cascade of relevant contractual, commercial, and service information across internal teams, and relationship teams for existing clients, using the e.surv Onboarding Policy to ensure that the client is set up correctly within esurv. Internal teams will be accountable for their own area of responsibility.

Key Criteria

• Experienced in bid writing and end-to-end bid project management.
• Strong editing and proof-reading skills to ensure clarity, consistency, and compliance.
• Understands business opportunities and competitive positioning.
• Demonstrates financial awareness and keeps up to date with industry trends.

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If you feel you match our requirements and are looking for your next career chapter, or for a confidential discussion on the full details of this role please contact Loren Worrall; alternatively apply with your CV and covering letter for a quick response.

We're part of the LSL Property Services Group PLC, which includes household names Your Move and Reeds Rains as well as the mortgage network PRIMIS. LSL Property Services are dedicated to protecting your data - our Recruitment Private notice can be viewed HERE.

PRE EMPLOYMENT SCREENING - All of our employees have to pass a Criminal Records Disclosure and Credit Referencing Process in order to work with our lender clients, if you are unsure on this, ask the team and we'll be happy to explain the process.