Bid Writer

Hybrid - attached to either our Solihull, London or Hook office (regular UK travel for meetings)
Full Time, Permanent
Salary - Up to £45k dependant on experience
Are you passionate about the services that we deliver but interested in other ways you can support our communities and meet business objectives?
Our newly centralised Bid Writing team are looking for passionate individuals who have firsthand working knowledge of our business sectors to help us develop an in-depth understanding of our proposed solutions and produce quality bids that meet our customer’s brief.
Join Serco's UK&E Growth team as a Bid Writer and articulate detailed information to secure impactful government contracts. Drawing on your strengths in writing and collaborating with colleagues, you’ll provide professional and high-quality support for bids vital in delivering our strategic ambitions. Compiling knowledge and workstreams in a coherent and customer-centric manner for bids in the UK, you’ll play a valuable role in effectively communicating our winning propositions and solutions.
Being a part of our forward-thinking team, you will have access to progressive technologies such as Autogen AI, to support you in the production of written responses, storyboards, and other bidding collateral
As well as the satisfaction of working on (and of course winning) contracts that directly impact public service users, you’ll also benefit from an environment that firmly sets the stage for your own career development and progression. Whether you want to specialise, progress upwards into Bid Management or Business Development, or broaden your career into a Sales, Operations, Project Management, Commercial or Solutions role - there will be plenty of opportunities to keep growing We offer a wide portfolio of career paths, with the right training and development in place so you can keep hitting your goals.
**As part of our team, you’ll**:
Craft high-quality bid proposals for bids of various sizes and complexities, both for individual bids and entire portfolios.
Collaborate with the bid team to create storyboards and ensure they guide bid creation.
**Develop winning bid responses**: You’ll write well-structured, accurate, concise, and visually engaging content that effectively conveys the message, meets customer requirements (including word count, presentation, and evaluation criteria), and achieves high scores.
Conduct additional research to supplement responses, including gathering and presenting relevant data.
Incorporate persuasive elements such as win themes, USPs, sales messages, case studies, and insightful commentary on current trends into your writing.
Ensure consistent language quality across bids by maintaining a unified terminology, tone, and style throughout submissions.
**What you’ll need to do the role**:
Experience of managing a varied set of deliverables.
Ability to write to a very high level (fluency, accuracy, correct messaging).
Highly competent in Microsoft Office software
Methodical, process-driven and organised with excellent attention to detail.
Ability to multi-task and prioritise, particularly in a time-sensitive environment.
**What we offer**:
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
Annual leave purchase scheme.
Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
Flexible working options.
A Serco benefits portal offering a wide range of discounts for major high street brands in Retail, Leisure & Hospitality.
A range of benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Health Cash Plans, free flu jabs and more.
A wealth of career development training to suit your future aspirations. These range from role specific training, leadership coaching, formal study and much more to support you to build your career with Serco.
A safe and supportive culture.
A company passionate about diversity and inclusion.
About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.
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